cucumber recommendations

[habitat_gardener]

I'd like to grow 2-4 cucumbers from the following list and am looking for any +/- opinions on...

Pickling--(0-1)
National
Cross Country

Slicing--(1-2)
Ministro
Silver Slicer
General Lee
Richmond Green Apple

Long-fruited Types--(0-1)
Shantung Suhyo Cross
Suhyo Long
Shintokiwa

[HiPoha]

I have had very good results with Tasty Green which is a suhyo type cucumber. I also tried some suhyo types that weren't exactly specific , in that it came as a generic brand, and the results weren't that good, with the cukes growing curled and sometimes with the ends ballooning. So, Tasty Green is all I plant now, each vine will give 4-6 beautiful and crisp cukes before drying out.

[roper2008]

I have tried Suyo Long (different spelling), maybe different
cucumber. Very good tasting, and nice fresh. I'll be growing
it again this year.

[Alpinejs]

While not a big cucumber fan, I grow them for my wife as she loves them.
Her very favorite is Persian Baby Green Fingers. It is only about 5" long, but
she claims they are the best. My daughter in San Francisco agrees with her. I
also grew the Japanes Suhyo and my wife thought they were very good, but
not AS good. Me, I'll stick to 'maters and squash.

General Lee is wonderfully crunchy and not watery as some are. My only complaint is that it is quite spiny.

[shelleybean]

A few years ago, I tried 9 different OP pickling cucumber varieties. The three best were National Pickling, Chicago Pickling, and Snow's Fancy Pickling (which is a selection of Chicago, I believe). I'd grow any of those three. They were all very productive and if picked small, are good for fresh eating, as well.

I've also grown Suyo Long and like that very much. It actually makes pretty good refrigerator type pickles, too.

[Cole_Robbie]

I grow Sweet Success.

[Farmette]

Originally Posted by Cole_Robbie

I grow Sweet Success.

I've grown General Lee and am thinking about Sweet Success for this year. Have you grown GL and if so, how do they compare?
Thanks!

[Cole_Robbie]

I haven't tried General Lee. I grow Sweet Success in the greenhouse because they set fruit without pollination. There are almost no seeds, and thus they are very burpless. They get about a foot long. I'm not a big cuke fan, but I actually ate the Sweet Success cukes. I have only grown them in containers and not in the ground.

[Gavriil]

For taste and crispness asian/oriental cucumbers are better flavored
(My Opinion)

If they have rough/spiney dry looking skins the better
(most of the asian heirloom types)

If they look like this but their skin is shiney its probably a hybrid.

http://www.freshplaza.com/news_detail.asp?id=13936#SlideFrame_1

[b54red]

Since my wife no longer makes pickles I only grow varieties for fresh eating. Year in and year out Sweet Success has been the most consistently good eating cucumber with great production. I like the taste of Diva but it is not as consistent a producer and I also like Poona Keera but it is even less consistent.

[GnomeGrown]

General Lee yielded well for us last year

[efisakov]

I have been growing Hybrid Pioneer F1, Armenian, and Suyo Japanese long for the last three years.
Armenian has very light green, almost white color. Liked its taste.
Suyo Japanese is the most amusing to watch, I would measure how much it grow every other day. Had most of my cuces grow more than 13 inches long, some 18, 19, and 20. Produced the whole season. Thin skinned, crunchy, sweet.
Hybrid Pioneer F1 was great first two years, in 2012 was at the hottest part of the summer a bit bitter.
Ella

[duajones]

FWIW, Poona Kheera has always done extremely well for me. I use it for fresh eating but have made pickles with them too.
Not a great pickler but ok if you use them at a smaller size so you have less seed.

[Muslickz]

last year I had 10 or 15 Boston pickling Cukes as well as 10 or so Straight 8's.

The straight 8's did great, giving me on average 15-20 decent 8-10" cukes per plant. But the Bostons didn't go so well producing few fruit and not taking the heat well at all.

This year I am going with Diva, can't wait to see how they do!

-Mus