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.
Characteristics
parthenocarp/ mixed flowering: mixed flowering
Cultivation
Raise 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
Sowing depth: ca. 2 cmAmount of seed needed: direct sowing 20-30 g/aSeed germination temperature: 23-26 °CCultivation note: Mixed flowered varieties should not be grown in the same greenhouse as female only varieties.Planting distance: 100-150 x 30-40 cmDirect sowing: open ground: from mid of May, only ridge and pickling varietiesGrowing situation: open ground, under glassOptimal amount of plants: ca. 2 plants/m²
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Origin
Multiplier: De Beersche Hoeve / René Groenen und Gineke de Graaf, Gärtnerei der Lebensgemeinschaft Bingenheim, Gärtnerei Medewege / Rainer Holst, Naturgut Hörnle KG / Joel Siegel, WarmonderhofstedeBreeder: H. SpießCerifications: Demeter
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