Cucumber (Organic) Seeds – Passandra F1
A great mini cucumber variety with the F1 hybrid!
The Cucumber Passandra F1 is a fantastic cucumber variety with the F1 hybrid strength. This all female type cucumber has a good resistance to mildew, mosaic virus and downy mildew. This variety of cucumber is actually a mini cucumber, growing to 15cm long. The Cucumber Passandra F1 produces heavy crops of crisp, delicious cucumbers with smooth dark green fruits.
Taking roughly 12 weeks to mature from sowing, you can be enjoying tasty mini cucumbers in time for the summer season. Being smaller than typical cucumber varieties, the Cucumber Passandra F1 is ideal for smaller greenhouses, these mini cucumbers can perform well outdoors in raised beds, containers or vegetable patch if grown through black polythene.
Growing Information
Growing Information
Crops 12 weeks from sowing. Sow seed singly on edge in 9cm pots under glass at 18–21°C (65–70°F) February-May for greenhouse crops or April-May for outdoors. Later pot on plants into large pots, about 25cm in size, or plant them out in a frame/greenhouse or outdoors. (Do not plant in cold frames until May.) Maintain night temperatures of 16–18°C (60–65°F). For standard greenhouse varieties, remove male flowers leaving the female ones (distinguished by swelling on stem behind petals). For standard outdoor varieties leave on both male and female flowers. ‘All female’ varieties produce virtually 100% female flowers which means they will not set fruit without insects for pollination. Harvest July-September.
Sowing Information
Crops 12 weeks from sowing. Sow seed singly on edge in 9cm pots under glass at 18-21°C (65-70°F) February-May for greenhouse crops or April-May for outdoors. Later pot on plants into large pots, about 25cm in size, or plant them out in a frame/greenhouse or outdoors. (Do not plant in cold frames until May.) Maintain night temperatures of 16-18°C (60-65°F). For standard greenhouse varieties, remove male flowers leaving the female ones (distinguished by swelling on stem behind petals). For standard outdoor varieties leave on both male and female flowers. ‘All female’ varieties produce virtually 100% female flowers which means they will not set fruit without insects for pollination. Harvest July-September.
