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Originally Posted by b54red
I have four Armenian cucumber vines growing up a 7 ft tall fence and have yet to get a cucumber off of it while my Sweet Success and Spring Swallow have been making for over a month and are nearing the end of their production. Has anyone else grown this cucumber? I got the seed in one of those 20 cent seed packets at Walmart. The vines have been full of blooms for weeks. They are light green almost yellow looking compared to other cucumbers I have grown. Hoping to get a few to try before the heat gets too much for them.
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Yes, I grow them every year b'c they're never bitter and I like the taste and they produce huge crops of fruits. Always.
So I don't know what the problem is with yours. Do you see both male and female blossoms?
They do come in different shades of green and some are striped and some not, and I've grown I think all the variants and they all perform and taste about the same.
And they aren't cukes.
Cucumbers are in the genus and species Cucumis sativus but Armenian cukes, also known as snake or serpent cukes b'c of their long fruits that curl if of not trellised, which I never do, are Cucumis melo, which is the genus and species for melons.