Mini-Me Hybrid Cucumber F1
- Mini-Me Cucumber – Early variety that sets small, uniform, and spineless fruits.
- Thin, smooth skin and a mild, slightly sweet flavor, perfect snack-sized additions to fresh foods and beverages, or can be pickled.
- 45 days to maturity
- Cucumis sativa
Description
The Mini-Me Cucumber is a dependable and high yielding variety that grows vigorously and forms a low-growing, far-spreading vine. By training the vines to grow vertically on support, you can improve air circulation, produce straighter fruit, prevent disease, and make harvest easier.
Cucumbers perform best when direct-seeded. They do not perform as well when transplanted. Cucumbers may be direct-seeded by hand or with a walk-behind seeder. To obtain a good stand of plants, we suggest planting Seeds every 6-8" inches and thinning to one seed per foot.
Cucumbers are a vining plant and grow best when given a trellised structure to climb. Use a strong trellis that is well-supported with deeply driven stakes. Keeping plants off the ground will reduce the potential of plant diseases like mildews and other diseases that can result from excess plant moisture.
Trellising will also keep the fruits cleaner and save time with harvesting and processing. It will also help to prevent fruit discoloration or yellowing from sitting on the soil surface. Our Hortonova Trellis Netting works great for trellising cucumbers and is easy to install.
Mini-Me Cucumber Planting Information
Planting Method: direct seed
When to Plant: After Last Frost
Planting Depth: 1/2"
Seed Spacing: 12"
Row Spacing: 5-6'
Days to Maturity: 45
Disease Tolerance: Cucumber Mosiac Virus, Downy Mildew
Growing Information
Zone 8 planted early April and just started picking this week. Great flavor .
I grow this variety in my hydroponic grow towers on my east facing patio and I love what these seeds do for me. All flowers are female and do not require pollination so they produce very well. I've got 16 plants in each tower - maybe that's too many, but Iwe'll see. Don't get greedy and leave them on the vine too long - they are called mini for a reason. There are more coming in every day. Pick early and often for best yields. Zone 8a.
These cucumbers are so good. Best I have ever grown. Makes great pickles.
I was already pleased at how quickly I received my order but my goodness it keeps getting better! Today is Wednesday May 21. I planted these seeds the afternoon of May 19th. I have tiny little plants springing up already! I've never seen anything germinate so quickly! Thank you Hoss I'll definitely be ordering more!
This is the 2nd year I’ve grown these wonderful cukes. They are very productive here on the Alabama Gulf coast. I grow them both in ground and in grow bags , they do equally well in both. A must in my garden every year.
