Tropical and subtropical vegetables (2+1)

Varieties

• Cucumber cultivars are usually classified on the basis of how they are used, fresh market (slicer) and pickling. In general fruits of slicer are longer than pickling cultivars and they develop a darker and heavier skin with uniformly cylindrical shape. Present day pickling cultivars tend to develop shorter vines than fresh market once and they are more prolific. Cucumber cultivars are also classified according to the spine colour, generally slicing cucumber have white spine colour and pickling cucumber have black spine colour.

Japanese Long Green:
It is introduction. It is suited to hills and lower hills, extra early with 45 days maturity, fruits 30-40cm long, flesh light green, crisp, released by IARI.

Japanese Long Green                                        Poinsette

Straight Eight:
• Early cultivars suited to hills, white spined fruit, medium long, thick straight with round end, colour medium green. Released by IARI, Regional station Katrain (Kallu vally).

Pusa Sanyog:
• It is a F1 hybrid (Japanese Gynoecious line X Green Long of Naples). Early and high yielding hybrid, fruit 28-30 cm long, cylindrical and dark green with yellow stripes crisp flesh, maturity in 50 days. Suitable to temperate region & hills of subtropical region.

Poinsette:
• An American introduction multiplied by National Seed Corporation. Fruit dark green 20-28cm long, carrying resistance to Downey mildew, anthracnose and angular leaf spot.

Himangi:
• It is developed by selection from the cross poinsett & Kalyanpur Ageti. Fruits are white in color and resistant to bronzing. Duration 100-110 days. Average yield is 19t/ha. Developed by MPKV, Rahuri (Maharastra).

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Phule Shubahangi:
• Fruits are green colour, high yielder than Himangi released by MPKV, Tolerant to powdery mildew.

Sheetal:
• Released by konkan krishi vidyapeeth Dapoli. Fruits are light green skin colour.

K 90:
• High yielder under temperate condition released by YSPUH&F, Solan.

Solan Hybrid:
• Released by YSPUH &F. It is F1 hybrid suited to temperate region, high yielding.

China:
• Long duration variety. Fruits are 40 cm length and fruits are light yellow colour.

AAUC 2:
• Fruits are long, cylindrical, medium size and white green.Days to harvest 60 to 65.Yield 45 to50 t/ha.

Swarna Poorna:
• Fruits are long, cylindrical, medium size and light green. Tolerent to powdery mildew.Days to harvest 55 to 60.Yield 30 to35 t/ha in 120 days.

Swarna Sheetal:
• Fruits are long, cylindrical, medium size and whitish green. Days to harvest 60 to 65.Yield 25 to30 t/ha. Several local cultivars are grown in different regions. In Pune region, there is cultivar called poonakhira. In UP there is a cultivar called Balam Khira. In West Bengal a variety called Darjeeling. In Karnataka local varieties viz West coast and Hassan local.

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