Increasingly, gardeners are growing long Chinese cucumbers on their plots. Long-fruited vegetables have collected a lot of advantages that significantly outweigh the disadvantages. The main advantages are their length, gastronomic taste and long fruiting period. Among the wide variety of Chinese cucumbers, experienced gardeners distinguish 5 varieties that are worthily included in the top five: even beginners can grow them.
Alligator F1
A hybrid variety bred by Chinese breeders. It belongs to the early ripening species and begins to bear fruit 45-55 days after the first leaves appear.
The variety got its name due to the similarity of the vegetable peel to the skin of an alligator. Vigorous bushes are grown on a trellis. Up to 10 long fruits are usually formed on one plant at a time. With a length of about 40 cm, one cucumber gains a weight of 300-350 g by the time it ripens.
Greens with dense, juicy pulp are sweet in taste and have absolutely no bitterness. The fruits are used for universal purposes.
The bee-pollinated hybrid is grown both in open ground and in a greenhouse. The variety is disease resistant and bears fruit until mid-October.
Chinese Farmer F1
The hybrid bred by Chinese breeders is a mid-season variety and begins to bear fruit 50-55 days after germination.
Climbing powerful bushes need support in the form of a trellis. The variety is more suitable for cultivation in open ground, as it requires pollination by insects. It tolerates shade and temperature changes well, and quickly adapts to climate changes.
Cucumbers with crispy sweet pulp grow up to 45 cm in length and gain a weight of about 300 grams. The tender pulp exudes a sweetish odor. A high-yielding variety from one bush allows you to collect up to 30 kg of smooth fruits with dark green skin.
The fruits are consumed fresh, as well as salted and preserved for the winter. The variety is distinguished by its high resistance to diseases.
Emerald Flow F1
The young hybrid variety, bred by Chinese breeders at the beginning of this century, has already become popular and has won the love of gardeners. Long and abundant fruiting begins one and a half to two months after planting and continues until the onset of cold autumn days.
The length of the fruit reaches 50 cm. The greens are dark green in color and have slight ribbing and tubercles with sparse white pubescence.
The sweet taste of the juicy, crispy pulp is not bitter. Fresh salads and preparations for the winter are prepared from the fruits.
The variety does not have any special requirements for light and bears fruit abundantly even in the shade. Quickly adapts to weather changes and is resistant to diseases.
Chinese snakes
The uniqueness of this early-ripening variety lies in its unusual long cucumbers. And the length can reach up to 80 cm, and their diameter is only about 7 cm.
From one properly formed bush during the growing season you can harvest up to 7-8 kg of serpentine cucumbers. The weight of one green vegetable varies from 300 to 400 grams.
The tender, dense and juicy pulp is covered with a thin skin, which is not noticeable in freshly prepared salads. The fruits are used for preservation for the winter and for preparing summer dishes. The vegetables taste sweet, without bitterness, with a pleasant fresh aroma.
The variety tolerates heat and growing in shaded areas well. Resistant to various types of rot and other garden diseases.
Cold resistant F1
A mid-season hybrid variety, adapted for cultivation in regions with harsh climatic conditions in open ground, greenhouses and hotbeds. Cultivation of this variety of cucumbers requires support in the form of a trellis, since powerful branches grow intensively upward.
You can enjoy the great taste of ripe fruits two months after sowing the seeds. Cucumbers weighing about 150 grams grow up to 65 cm in length. With proper agrotechnical care, up to 30 kg of crop can be harvested from one bush.
The greens are curved, cylindrical, dark green in color, and have dense pimples on the skin. The taste of the aromatic juicy pulp is sweet and without bitterness. The fruits are consumed fresh and pickled for the winter.
The variety has high immunity to garden diseases.
Chinese long cucumbers produce abundant harvests even in the smallest garden plots and, thanks to this, are gaining popularity among gardeners. For each region, you can always choose the appropriate variety and enjoy the freshness of vegetables for a long time.
I really liked the Emerald Stream. Sweet, juicy, aromatic. Used for salads and for seaming.
It is so unpretentious and protects itself that even when the spider mite is raging in the greenhouse, it does not touch these bushes.
We are also now planting the Emerald Flow variety (although we have tried many varieties) because they are sweet, juicy, neat, not ugly cucumbers, do not grow thick and are suitable not only for salads, but also for preparations (we don’t like thick and ugly cucumbers even for pickling in pickle soup).