Persika
Persika is a good yielding, mixed flowering salad cucumber with green medium long, smooth skinned fruits, ca. 20 cm long. Suited to both outdoor and greenhouse cultivation. Because of its compact form well suited as a snack cucumber. Very good flavour, virtually no bitterness.
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Characteristics
parthenocarp/ mixed flowering: mixed flowering
Origin
Breeder: H. SpießMultiplier: De Beersche Hoeve / René Groenen und Gineke de Graaf, Dottenfelderhof Christoph Matthes, Gärtnerei der Lebensgemeinschaft Bingenheim, Gärtnerei Medewege / Rainer Holst, Naturgut Hörnle KG / Joel Siegel, Warmonderhofstede Cerifications: Demeter
Cultivation
Direct sowing: open ground: from mid of May, only ridge and pickling varietiesCultivation note: Mixed flowered varieties should not be grown in the same greenhouse as female only varieties.Planting distance: 100-150 x 30-40 cmAmount of seed needed: direct sowing 20-30 g/aSeed germination temperature: 23-26 °COptimal amount of plants: ca. 2 plants/m²Raise in seed bed: for heated greenhouse: from mid of February for planting out mid of March for cold greenhouse: beginning of April for planting out beginning of May