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Cucumber Gynial F1 - Vilmorin Seeds

Cucumis sativus Gynial F1
Cucumber

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Very good cucumber that I redo every year for many years. Sown in mid-April in 7 buckets, transplanted 4 weeks later along a trellis in a staggered pattern every 50cm (20in), the plants produce beautiful elongated fruits, nice and green, which can grow in diameter without being filled with seeds. Like any demanding crop, the soil is well amended and I add two good shovelfuls of manure at planting, then the plant is watered and mulched. Make sure to water well during fruit formation, cucumber is a water-filled vegetable! Enjoy your meal!

Claire, 25/02/2023

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'Gynial F1' Cucumber is a very productive, disease-resistant hybrid variety. It produces 25-28 cm long, dark green fruits with crisp, tasty flesh and no bitter aftertaste. Suitable for growing up trellises in smaller gardens! Sow under cover from March to June and harvest 3 months later. Vilmorin quality seeds.
Ease of cultivation
Beginner
Height at maturity
2.50 m
Spread at maturity
50 cm
Soil moisture
Moist soil
Germination time (days)
10 days
Sowing method
Direct sowing, Sowing under cover, Sowing under cover with heat
Sowing period March to June
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Description

'Gynial F1' Cucumber is a very productive, disease-resistant hybrid variety. It produces 25-28 cm long, dark green fruits with crisp, tasty flesh and no bitter aftertaste. Suitable for growing up trellises in smaller gardens! Sow under cover from March to June and harvest 3 months later.

Cucumber is one of the most popular summer vegetables. Both refreshing and low in calories, it is perfect added to summer salads and cocktails, sliced in sandwiches and blended into smoothies. Cucumber comes in an array of colours, shapes and sizes. Classic slicing varieties are long and dark green, lunchbox varieties are short and bumpy, Armenian cucumbers are light green and lemon cucumbers are round and yellow! Some are suitable for growing outdoors, others need to be grown under cover in a polytunnel or a greenhouse.

Cucumbers do well in light, loose, nutrient-dense soils with plenty of sunlight and temperatures ranging from 18 to 22°C. Cucumbers are moisture-loving plants that need watering regularly.

Harvesting: Cucumbers are harvested when they are full-sized, before they start to turn yellow and bitter. Regular harvests will stimulate fruit production. They are generally ready to harvest about 3 months after sowing, from June to September.

Storage: Cucumbers will stay fresh for several days in the refrigerator. They can also be pickled or lacto-fermented for later use.

Good to know: Cucumber plants are prone to powdery mildew (a fungal disease that causes a white down to form on the surface of the leaves). When watering, try to avoid getting water on the leaves or flowers. When growing cucumbers in a greenhouse or polytunnel, make sure it is well-ventilated. Good companion plants include lettuce and beans. Avoid growing your cucumbers too close to potatoes and tomatoes.

Even if the vegetable garden is first and foremost a place for growing great quality veg, it’s always a good idea to leave a bit of room for flowers. Growing flowers alongside your vegetable plants will make your general gardening experience more enjoyable and is a great way to attract pollinators and repel garden pests! Flowers such as gaillardia, marigolds, zinnias, cosmos or nasturtiums can be sown in and around the rows of vegetables. Herbs such as dill can be very useful also. Bear in mind that some companion plants self-seed easily and can be a bit invasive (borage, chives, lemon balm etc.)

NB: This variety is marked F1 for "F1 hybrid" meaning that its qualities are derived from carefully selected parent plants. This results in a variety that is both full of flavour and resistant to diseases. Sometimes criticized or wrongly assimilated to GMOs, F1 hybrid seeds have the advantage of producing reliable, uniform, disease resistant plants. Unfortunately, these qualities will not be passed on to following generations.

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Cucumber and gherkin: sowing, planting, cultivation, pruning
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by Aurélien 14 min.
Cucumber and gherkin: sowing, planting, cultivation, pruning
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Harvest

Harvest time July to October
Type of vegetable Fruit vegetable
Vegetable colour green
Size of vegetable Medium
Interest Flavour, Very productive
Use Cooking

Plant habit

Height at maturity 2.50 m
Spread at maturity 50 cm
Growth rate normal

Foliage

Foliage persistence Deciduous
Foliage colour medium green

Botanical data

Genus

Cucumis

Species

sativus

Cultivar

Gynial F1

Family

Cucurbitaceae

Other common names

Cucumber

Origin

Cultivar or hybrid

Annual / Perennial

Annual

Product reference • 26341

Planting and care

Cucumber sowing:

Cucumber germination occurs at a temperature between 16°C and 35°C. Germination usually takes 8 to 10 days at these temperatures. Sowing is done under shelter in March/April (indoors, in a greenhouse, or on a hotbed) and in open ground from mid-May to June, when the soil is sufficiently warm and the risk of frost has passed. To spread out the harvest, you can stagger your sowings, every 15 days for example.

Sowing under shelter: Fill pots (or trays with drainage holes) with special sowing compost and plant 2 or 3 seeds per pot. Water with a very fine spray. When the two true leaves appear, thin out to keep only one plant per pot. Depending on the sowing date, you can either transplant them into the open ground if the soil is warm enough, or keep one plant in each pot while waiting for higher temperatures. Make sure the substrate remains moist but not waterlogged and keep it at a moderate temperature. When transplanting into the open ground, allow for a spacing of 1m in all directions if the cultivation is done flat, or 1m between rows and 50 cm along the row if the cultivation is trained.

Sowing in open ground: Stretch a string and make furrows with a spacing of 1m between rows. Sow in holes (2 to 3 seeds in each hole). Along the row, the holes should be spaced 1m apart if the cultivation is done flat, or 50 cm apart if the cultivation is trained. Cover with fine soil and gently firm with the back of a rake. Water with a fine spray to keep the soil moist. When the plants have reached 2 to 3 leaves, thin out to keep only one plant.

Cucumber cultivation:

Cucumber is a fairly demanding vegetable that requires rich soil. It is advisable to apply mature compost (about 3 kg per m²) in autumn, by scratching it to a depth of 5 cm, after loosening the soil as for any vegetable cultivation. It prefers neutral soils (pH 7) but will also thrive in slightly acidic or alkaline soil (pH between 5.5 and 7.5).

Cucumber can be grown flat, but to save space and promote production, don't hesitate to exploit its climbing nature by training it: on a frame covered with wire mesh, inclined at 45°, it will provide beneficial shade for lettuces or even in a tipi to bring some whimsy to the vegetable garden.
When the plants are vertically trained, the cultivation is done on a single stem that is pruned at a height of 2.5 m maximum. Flat, it is pruned above the second leaf to obtain two stems which are then pruned above the 4th leaf. The final pruning consists of cutting above a leaf for each formed fruit.

Plan for 2 or 3 hoeings and mulch at the beginning of summer to maintain soil moisture.

Seedlings

Sowing period March to June
Sowing method Direct sowing, Sowing under cover, Sowing under cover with heat
Germination time (days) 10 days

Care

Soil moisture Wet
Disease resistance Good
Pruning No pruning necessary

Intended location

Type of use Vegetable garden
Hardiness Hardy down to +1.5°C (USDA zone 10b) Show map
Ease of cultivation Beginner
Soil léger
Exposure Sun
Soil pH Any
Soil type Silty-loamy (rich and light), Moist soil

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