A vining cultivar, producing stems to 3m (10ft) long and an early and heavy crop of long, smooth, thin-skinned and flavourful fruit. This cultivar is suitable for greenhouse cultivation as well as for growing outdoors in summer in the UK.
1-1.5 metres
0.5-1 metres
| Season | Stem | Flower | Foliage | Fruit |
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Grow in an acidic to neutral, moisture-retentive, well drained compost and a position in full sun, in a conservatory, greenhouse, or outdoors in summer in the UK. This variety needs both male and female flowers to set fruit. See cucumber cultivation
Propagate by seed. See sowing vegetable seeds
pinch out tips of leading stems once they have reached the top of thee trellis or growing support. Laterals should be pruned two leaves beyond where a fruit is developing to divert the plant's energy into the development of the fruit, rather than into the lateral's vegetative growth
May be susceptible to glasshouse whitefly
May be susceptible to Cucumber mosaic virus and powdery mildews