Carmen cucumber plant - impressive

[kt.]

I would like to thank those who brought to my attention this year,  the Carmen variety of cucumber plant. 

I paid £4.50 for 5 seeds from "Exhibition Seeds" as opposed to £7-8 everybody else was asking.  From one plant, so far this year we have had five 10-12" long cucumbers,  with another 6 or 7 growing along nicely.  3 of which will be ready again within the next week.  And its only July!  What month does it usually stop? (December would be good ;D ;D ;D)

We are counting to see how many fruit we get off one plant. I know the packet says up to 100 but I expect a more realistic number of around 40-50...... 8) 8) 8)

[kt.]

[northener]

Yes well worth the money. I tried Telegraph in the greenhouse this year. Its a pain taking the male flowers off every day,the few cucs we did get tasted bitter so i've pulled them up,too much bother. All female for me next year.

[Biscombe]

But mildew free? I saw a few spots on the lower leaves when I was watering last night :o loads of cukes coming though!

[Jeannine]

Yep. it is one of a few edible plkants I swear by.

XX Jeannine

[Doris_Pinks]

My Carmen is behaving badly, my others are romping along, but she is sulking for some reason...........time will tell!

[Barnowl]

I would like to thank those who brought to my attention this year,  the Carmen variety of cucumber plant. 

I paid £4.50 for 5 seeds from "Exhibition Seeds" as opposed to £7-8 everybody else was asking.  ..... 8) 8) 8)

I got mine as a the free packet from T&M that you can choose when you order more than a certain amount of seeds. Someone here suggested it.  Only tried two seeds - both germinated but the seedlings got stem rot at their bases. Now relying on Petita for this year.   After the praise they've had here, I wIll deffo give them another go next year.

[tricia]

I seem to remember getting my Carmen for free too when buying other seeds for next year  ;D ;D. I have three plants in my tiny GH. The Carmen is the strongest, but the fruit are rather long (I prefer the mini type). The Zeina, which is a  mini is good and has several fruit ready for picking at the moment. The third is Petita which got off to a bad start but is now catching up and will probably provide fruit when the others have finished. All of them are so far proving resistant to mildew.

Tricia

[kt.]

The Zeina, which is a  mini is good and has several fruit ready for picking at the moment.

My Ziena all died once reaching about 15" tall.  I was expecting them to produce as good as the Carmen is.