Excelsior, Cucumber Seed
10 seeds per package
This is an outstanding pickling variety for full season production. Plants are open in habit and vigorous, with medium to dark green fruit averaging 10-12cm (4-5") in length.
Excelsior is a parthenocarpic variety with high resistance to Cornyspora and scab, with intermediate resistance to powdery mildew, cucumber mosaic virus, and vein yellowing virus. Its great disease package is well suited to high tunnel growing. Keep plants picked, and they will reward you with loads of cucumbers, the perfect size and shape for making pickles.
- Outstanding pickling variety
- Open habit for easy picking
- 10-12cm (4-5") long
- Hybrid productivity
- Does not need pollination to produce fruit
- Fantastic disease package
- Matures in 65 days
Cucumbers need very warm soil to germinate. If direct sowing, wait until mid-June. If weather turns cool and wet after that, just re-sow. Or start transplants indoors in individual peat or coir pots 3-4 weeks before transplanting out into warm soil. If starting indoors, use bottom heat. Transplant when the plants develop their third true leaf. If the plants are too big, they may experience transplant shock. Optimal soil temperature for germination (and transplanting): 15-30°C (60-85°F).
Sow 3-4 seeds 2cm (1″) deep in each spot you want a plant to grow. Thin to the strongest seedling. Space plants 23cm (9″) apart in rows 90cm (36″) apart.
