Our brother-in-law, Andy, planted a crop of normal green English Cucumbers… but here’s the thing: None of them turned out green or normal at all! They’re HUGE and almost entirely WHITE!
We’re trying to figure out what the deal is with these things, so if you have any ideas, please let us know!
a mutant.
I would cut it in half, and if it leaks that white creamy acidic stuff and burns thru your floor like in the movie Alien, I wouldn't eat it! Sorry, I couldn't resist 🙂
we had a similar experience in our garden. hope you all solve the mystery!
I know exactly what those are. I grew those this year there amazing. There called Armenian Metki White cucumbers
They taste better if you don't let them get that big. But the big ones are good to juice so don't throw them away.
Please don't eat it if it glows in the dark.
"That's what she said."
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.
WOW!
It's food. It's weapon should anyone try and take your food.
Did you ever see Invasion of the Body Snatchers? We need proof you are still you.
A coworker of my husband grew those kind of cucumbers and would bring them to work but he has retired
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.
omg loving the vlog would you every vlog in the camper van again where is that cool van?
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.
Cucumis melo var. flexuosus
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…
Yeap. Armenian Cucumber
Looks like a zucchini seed got in the cucumber seed pack…
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?!!"
100% Armenian Cucumber.
https://bonnieplants.com/product/armenian-cucumber/
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.
Dear Derek. We have these kinds of cucumber in our country. It tastes like combination of cucumber and skin of melon. We eat as fruit or in salad.
Yep, everyones right, it's an Armenian Cucumber. He must have gotten some seeds. I grow them in my garden and they get HUGE!
https://sipse.com/milenio/yucatan-cosechan-pepinos-gigantes-uman-212852.html
I would love to try some of that seed here in Ireland, do you have any left?
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.
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.)
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.
I like to eat it by diping it in a black vinegar sauce with smashed garlics and some salt and paper and Don't forget to put some water with it.