December 22, 2024

30 thoughts on “VIDEO: GGC – 65 – What's Up With This Cucumber?

  1. Were there other normal cucumbers on the vine? Could it have hybridized with something similar near it.
    Save some seeds and plant next year, see what you get.

  2. If you like them, be sure to let a few go to seed. Its possible that they are a hybrid so try to sprout a few in late winter to determine the viability rate so you will know how many seeds to plant in each hill.

  3. Italian White Wonder Cucumber or Cucumber Melon Tortarello Chiaro, both Italian and grow long. Or if fuzzy like a tennis ball, white Italian Cucumber best eaten when round or oval. All three can grow large. Armenian is also possible. Does the inside look like a cuke.

  4. That's an Armenian cucumber, and it's technically a melon and used as a cucumber… When they get real big like that and they get even bigger, some people prefer to juice them Instead. In fact there one of the best juicing cucumbers u can grow and u can just drink as a water replacement, sweaten with honey, or agave nector even a piece of apple…
    Good luck guys, grow some next year, and thanks for all the good videos…

  5. Did your brother-in-law buy seed or did he save it from previous years? That for sure is an Armenian cucumber. They sell them at my local farmers market. The funny thing is they taste like a cucumber, but they are really some kind of melon, which is why they grow so big and funny looking. I bet somehow the seed packet was tainted or a bird may have dropped seeds in their droppings which grew. Both of which have happened to me!! This last year I had several volunteers in odd parts of the garden and a couple of "what the hecks?!!"

  6. It is Armenian (cucumber) for sure, in reality it's a verity of melon. I got my seeds a month ago and Baker Creek Seeds just shipped Metki Dark Serpent Armenian (Cucumbers) yesterday. It's just a seed mix.

    Back in Pakistan, the light green serpent verity is commonly grown in summer. It's perfectly fine to eat. I am in Calgary, Canada zone 4B.

  7. Definitely NOT a so called American Cucumber! That's what happens when Monsanto splices Albino Unicom DNA into a Standard Field Cuke…that's actually a unicorn egg. If you keep it under your pillow for about 21 days, a pair of twin baby unicorns will hatch out. For goodness sakes wear safety glasses from day 19 on, you'd hate to lose an eye to those sharp little horns as they frolic about the bed. Incidentally, when they burp, it does smell like cucumber! Great videos, and hello from Nova Scotia.

  8. Going back and perusing some of your older videos I never saw. Of course, by now you know what type of cuke that is. I recently watched some videos on Aremenian cukes, and decided to grow some this year, 2019. I'm in SE Michigan, and ordered seed from Baker Creek(Rareseeds). From the online videos, I gathered that you should harvest these cukes when they are smaller than the one in your video(more tender, fewer seeds.)

  9. I won a blue ribbon at the Arizona State Fair 2018 for a giant cucumber…looked the same as the one shown. 23.3 lbs and 21 inches long. I had planted Armenian cucumber (Cucumis melo) seeds and I think it crossed with another melon.

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