straight eight cukes - Page 2

twillis2252 · August 7, 2016

I am also getting low production from Straight 8's. Last year I grew Sumter and Northern Pickling and harvested several five gallon buckets of cukes. Next year will revert back to the tried and true...

MrSalvage · August 7, 2016

I have only picked 4 cukes from my burpee str8's. Flowers all over the place just no cukes. I will not plant these ever again!

Spike2 · August 7, 2016

I have 2 sets of straight 8s that are going nuts! I have so many that I been giving them away. Guess I must have just gotten lucky this year?

Starlight · August 7, 2016

I used to grow Straight 8's after one year of excellent production and taste. Several years after, just a few cukes and they were bitter.

I switched over to Marketmore and even better I planted North Carolina Pickling cukes and had 4 plants in each 3 gallon pot. I let em sprawl and had cukes everywhere. I been eating the pickler ones like regular cukes. Good flavor. Tastes like the big ones.

Only problem I had was so many vines and leaves even with pinching some of the vines back that I would some cukes and they would get big and fat and almost to yellow color, but were still yummy.

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August 7, 2016	#16
twillis2252 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2016 Location: SC & NC Posts: 258	I am also getting low production from Straight 8's. Last year I grew Sumter and Northern Pickling and harvested several five gallon buckets of cukes. Next year will revert back to the tried and true...

August 7, 2016	#17
MrSalvage Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Apr 2016 Location: VA - Zone 7A Posts: 344	I have only picked 4 cukes from my burpee str8's. Flowers all over the place just no cukes. I will not plant these ever again!

August 7, 2016	#18
Spike2 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Sep 2015 Location: NE Ohio Posts: 992	I have 2 sets of straight 8s that are going nuts! I have so many that I been giving them away. Guess I must have just gotten lucky this year?

August 7, 2016	#19
Starlight Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2015 Location: AL Posts: 1,993	I used to grow Straight 8's after one year of excellent production and taste. Several years after, just a few cukes and they were bitter. I switched over to Marketmore and even better I planted North Carolina Pickling cukes and had 4 plants in each 3 gallon pot. I let em sprawl and had cukes everywhere. I been eating the pickler ones like regular cukes. Good flavor. Tastes like the big ones. Only problem I had was so many vines and leaves even with pinching some of the vines back that I would some cukes and they would get big and fat and almost to yellow color, but were still yummy.