Best Tasting Parthenocarpic Cucumber?

OhioGardener 8/16/2024, 10:22 am

What are the best tasting Parthenocarpic Cucumbers? This past winter I grew the Beit Alpha cucumber in the greenhouse, and it was a great producer - we picked 2 or 3 cucumbers daily all winter and well into the spring. But, the DW didn't like the taste of them, and prefers the regular cucumbers we grow outside on the arbor during summer months. I would like to experiment with another variety in the greenhouse this winter, but not sure what one would be better than the Beit Alpha.

**Scorpio Rising** 8/16/2024, 10:33 pm

I grow Beit alpha, too, and Muncher, but they are similar so thinking your wife might not like them either.

OhioGardener 8/17/2024, 2:01 pm

Scorpio Rising wrote:I grow Beit alpha, too, and Muncher, but they are similar so thinking your wife might not like them either.

I am beginning to wonder if this isn't the case for all of the parthenocarpic cucumbers. Seeds n' Such has several varieties, but it appears that they are all bred from the Beit Alpha so the taste would probably be very similar. A couple of them look pretty interesting, though:

Gherking Hybrid Cucumber

County Fair Improved Hybrid Cucumber

**sanderson** 8/19/2024, 3:13 am

I grow Muncher and Beit Alpha and like that I can eat them without peeling. They are very mild but I have found that they grow very well in our dry +100*F summers. Maybe it's a trade-off.

**Scorpio Rising** 8/19/2024, 9:36 am

Those both look different than my Beit Alpha and Muncher, more bumps, more “gherkin-y”. Maybe she would like those? Does she like Marketmore? You are looking for something to put in your greenhouse, correct?

OhioGardener 8/19/2024, 10:16 am

Scorpio Rising wrote:Those both look different than my Beit Alpha and Muncher, more bumps, more “gherkin-y”. Maybe she would like those? Does she like Marketmore? You are looking for something to put in your greenhouse, correct?

Yes, we love the Marketmore, and grow them every summer. I just took out this year's plants last week, and replaced them with the fall Sugar Snap Peas. Yes, I'm looking for a cucumber for the greenhouse. Last winter I grew the Beit Alpha in there, and it did great. But it wasn't a winner in taste.

I ordered the Gerking from Seeds n' Such since they had free shipping this weekend. Hopefully it will be a winner. I have to design a better trellis for it this year, though. Last winter the cucumber vine overwhelmed the trellis, and started growing across the rafters.

**sanderson** 8/19/2024, 9:18 pm

The Country Fair hybrid may be more tasty than Muncher or Beit Alpha.

SMEDLEY BUTLER 8/21/2024, 9:18 am

China Jade is a good tasting cucumber but it should be grown on a trellis. depending on your soil, the interior is a soft faint jade color in MM. Have a friend who plants in ground, his are a deeper jade color. I think his taste better. Little Leaf is another but has not been very productive for me, taste is okay but not spectacular.

Suyo Long is another but I have only grown it twice and don't have enough experience with it to make a recommendation. It needs to be trellised also, kind of ugly with a good taste.

SMEDLEY BUTLER 8/21/2024, 9:59 am

OhioGardener wrote:
Scorpio Rising wrote:I grow Beit alpha, too, and Muncher, but they are similar so thinking your wife might not like them either.

I am beginning to wonder if this isn't the case for all of the parthenocarpic cucumbers. Seeds n' Such has several varieties, but it appears that they are all bred from the Beit Alpha so the taste would probably be very similar. A couple of them look pretty interesting, though:

Gherking Hybrid Cucumber

County Fair Improved Hybrid Cucumber

If I understand right, if a cucumber is listed as "Burpless" it is almost always parthenocarpic. I have saved seeds from China Jade and Suyo Long by planting a monecious cucumber close by, Usually Russian Pickling. The deer have eaten all my cucumber leaves and pretty much everything else. I do have one volunteer Russian Pickling which when picked at around 5" (no bigger) has superb taste.

OhioGardener 8/21/2024, 1:55 pm

SMEDLEY BUTLER wrote:If I understand right, if a cucumber is listed as "Burpless" it is almost always parthenocarpic. I have saved seeds from China Jade and Suyo Long by planting a monecious cucumber close by, Usually Russian Pickling.

If you saved seeds from a hybrid, the new plants are no longer the same variety as the hybrid was.

SMEDLEY BUTLER 8/21/2024, 7:07 pm

Both China Jade and Suyo Long are OP not hybrids. China Jade has been around for more than two thousand years. I have been growing it and saving seeds for more than thirty years. The only difference is that the color seems to be less deep.

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