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The mysterious Suyo Long cucumber

Posted on August 8th, 2007 – 10:11 AM
By Jaime Chismar

Last year, Rebecca K. gave me a Suyo Long seedling. It took me a year to admit that I killed it. She laughed at me and confided that she had killed hers, too.

Rebecca vowed to test her luck again and this year, to my shock and delight, she trusted me with another seedling.

My Suyo Long got off to a late start, but blossomed all the same. The squirrels ate the low hanging fruit, but one strange curly cuke has survived.

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Have you grown Suyo Longs? Is there enough growing season for this cuke curiosity to mature? More important, what do they taste like?

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4 Responses to "The mysterious Suyo Long cucumber"

Lorika says:

August 8th, 2007 at 11:52 am

Yes, I grew them last year - and there should be enough time for yours to mature. They do actually get quite impressively long! Funny that the squirrels ate them as they have quite a lot of spines. Oh well. I hope they don’t touch that one!

Rebecca says:

August 8th, 2007 at 2:59 pm

Glad to see you are starting to get some cucumbers coming in. My one lone surviving plant is a little behind yours, but I spotted a little baby on it yesterday. If it stays hot like this and you water the plant every few days, the cukes mature surprisingly fast. That one in the picture should probably be ready to eat in around 4 days, if I remember from last year. I’ve found that rodents eat anything low, and are particularly fond of the cukes and tomatoes, so if I plan on eating any of them myself, I have to trellis the cukes to keep them off the ground and fence in my tomatoes with chicken wire.

My ‘mystery melon’ is doing very well, its huge and has lots of flowers, but no fruit has actually set yet. I’m hoping to see something any day now. Has anyone else figure out what it is yet?

Jaime Chismar says:

August 8th, 2007 at 3:25 pm

Ha! If you send me a photo, I bet Robyn can identify your mystery melon. One of our multimedia mavens is working on a story about an heirloom melon man. He’d know for sure.

I’ll keep you posed on our little Suyo’s progress… Four days, really?

Carolyn says:

August 10th, 2007 at 6:31 pm

I planted 5 suyo seedlings this past memorial day and I’ve been harvesting cukes daily for the last 2 weeks (and thats way up here in Beltrami cty). This summer has been the most productive year I’ve experiences with suyo cukes since I started planting them 4 years ago.

Suyo cukes are ripe when they are about the size of a quarter in diameter. That cuke you have there should be ripe within a few days with good watering. If you let them go much longer they will start getting seeds.

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