Mini Cucumber Varieties
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Overview
Jawell F1 is one of the most popular mini cucumber varieties in the Paramount Seeds range. With excellent fruit quality, easy harvest, and year-round production capability, Jawell is a proven performer for greenhouse and hydroponic growers. This listing is for fungicide treated seed.
Key Performance Characteristics
- Fruit length: 14–16 cm (5.5–6.3 inches)
- Plant habit: Medium vigor, open plant with short internodes
- Harvest: Fruits can be harvested with or without stems
- Fruit quality: Excellent taste, good shelf life
- Production: Year-round; recommended planting window January–September
- Disease resistance: Intermediate resistance to Powdery Mildew
- Packaging appeal: Versatile for creative retail packaging options
Seed Specifications
- Seed treatment: Fungicide treated as standard
- Packaging: Available in 25, 50, 100, 1,000 and 5,000 seed packs
Also available as Jawell Untreated Seed. Also consider Splash F1 and Ministars F1 mini cucumber varieties.
Overview
Katrina F1 is an exceptionally compact, multi-fruited mini cucumber outstanding for spring-summer cultivation. With strong fruit setting, good recovery after wire, and continuous high-level production of nicely ribbed, shiny fruit with extended shelf life, Katrina is a reliable performer for greenhouse mini cucumber production.
Key Performance Characteristics
- Fruit length: 16–17 cm (6.5–7 inches)
- Fruit quality: Nicely ribbed, shiny, extended shelf life
- Plant habit: Compact, multi-fruited
- Fruit setting: Strong
- Wire recovery: Good
- Production: Continuous, high level
- Best seasons: Spring and summer
Disease Resistance
- HR: Ccu
- IR: Px, CMV, CVYV
Seed Specifications
- Seed treatment: Non-treated (untreated) as standard
- Packaging: Available in 25, 50, 100, 1,000 and 5,000 seed packs
Also available as Katrina Treated Seed.
Note: Manar F1 is being phased out. Limited supply available while stocks last.
Overview
Manar F1 is a powdery mildew tolerant mini cucumber (also known as Beit Alpha, Persian, or Lebanese cucumber) with excellent fruit shape, good production, and a vegetative growth habit. With average fruit size of 15–17 cm, Manar has been a widely used variety in this popular and fast-growing category.
Key Performance Characteristics
- Fruit length: 15–17 cm (6–6.75 inches)
- Fruit shape: Excellent
- Powdery mildew: Tolerant
- Growth habit: Vegetative
- Also known as: Beit Alpha, Persian cucumber, Lebanese cucumber
Seed Specifications
- Seed treatment: Untreated as standard
- Packaging: Available in 25, 50, 100, 1,000 and 5,000 seed packs
Also consider Jawell F1, Katrina F1, and Splash F1 mini cucumber alternatives.
Overview
Excelsior F1 is a high-quality pickling cucumber for open field, high tunnel, and unheated greenhouse production in spring and fall. With an open, vigorous plant habit and medium to dark green fruit of 10–12 cm (4–5 inches), Excelsior delivers consistent quality and a strong disease resistance package.
Key Performance Characteristics
- Type: Pickling cucumber
- Fruit length: 10–12 cm (4–5 inches)
- Fruit color: Medium to dark green
- Plant habit: Open, vigorous
- Best seasons: Spring and fall
- Production systems: Open field, high tunnel, unheated greenhouse
Disease Resistance
- HR: Cca, Ccu
- IR: Px, CMV, CVYV
Seed Specifications
- Seed treatment: Untreated as standard
- Packaging: Available in 25, 50, 100 and 1,000 seed packs
Overview
Katrina F1 is an exceptionally compact, multi-fruited mini cucumber outstanding for spring-summer cultivation. With strong fruit setting, good recovery after wire, and continuous high-level production of nicely ribbed, shiny fruit with extended shelf life, Katrina is a reliable performer for greenhouse mini cucumber production.
Key Performance Characteristics
- Fruit length: 16–17 cm (6.5–7 inches)
- Fruit quality: Nicely ribbed, shiny, extended shelf life
- Plant habit: Compact, multi-fruited
- Fruit setting: Strong
- Wire recovery: Good
- Production: Continuous, high level
- Best seasons: Spring and summer
Disease Resistance
- HR: Ccu
- IR: Px, CMV, CVYV
Seed Specifications
- Seed treatment: Treated as standard
- Packaging: Available in 25, 50, 100, 1,000 and 5,000 seed packs
Also available as Katrina Non-Treated Seed.
Mini cucumber Colin is an early beit alpha, or Persian cucumber that is a semi multy fruited variety.
A very high quality, highly productive variety with small leaves and short internodes. Fruit from this parthenocarpic, all female flowered is slightly veined with a nice green color
Average fruit size 15-17 cm (6 - 6.75 inches).
Suitable for Late Autumn and early spring seasons in greenhouses
Overview
Excelsior F1 is a high-quality pickling cucumber for open field, high tunnel, and unheated greenhouse production in spring and fall. With an open, vigorous plant habit and medium to dark green fruit of 10–12 cm (4–5 inches), Excelsior delivers consistent quality and a strong disease resistance package.
Key Performance Characteristics
- Type: Pickling cucumber
- Fruit length: 10–12 cm (4–5 inches)
- Fruit color: Medium to dark green
- Plant habit: Open, vigorous
- Best seasons: Spring and fall
- Production systems: Open field, high tunnel, unheated greenhouse
Disease Resistance
- HR: Cca, Ccu
- IR: Px, CMV, CVYV
Seed Specifications
- Seed treatment: Treated as standard
- Packaging: Available in 25, 50, 100 and 1,000 seed packs
Also available as Excelsior Untreated Seed.
Overview
Quail F1 is an early Beit Alpha / Persian mini cucumber with a semi-multi-fruited habit, short internodes, and small leaves. A parthenocarpic, all-female flowered variety producing small fruit with very good taste and aroma, Quail is suited to daily harvest in late autumn and early spring greenhouse production.
Key Performance Characteristics
- Type: Beit Alpha / Persian mini cucumber
- Fruit length: 10–12 cm (4–5.25 inches)
- Flavor: Very good taste and aroma
- Flowering: Parthenocarpic, all-female
- Plant habit: Semi-multi-fruited, short internodes, small leaves
- Harvest: Suitable for daily harvest
- Maturity: Early
- Best seasons: Late autumn and early spring greenhouse
Seed Specifications
- Seed treatment: Untreated as standard
- Packaging: Available in 25, 50, 100 and 1,000 seed packs
Also consider Katrina F1 and Socrates F1 mini cucumber alternatives.
Marketmore 76 remains the most widely-planted open-pollinated slicer cucumber in the US. Dark green fruits stay green and mild-tasting even under heat stress, while multiple disease resistances keep plants vigorous and highly productive across a long picking season.
- Fruit size: 8–9"
- Days to maturity: 65 days
- Pack: 1/16 oz (sows ~14 ft)
- Color: Dark green, heat-stable
- Good resistance to ALS and Anthracnose
- Disease resistance: PM (Powdery Mildew), CMV (Cucumber Mosaic Virus), Scab, Angular Leaf Spot
Untreated seed.
Overview
Deltastar F1 is a vigorous mini cucumber with an open plant habit, suitable for summer, autumn, and early spring cultivation. Producing dark green, slightly ribbed fruit with excellent shelf life and good flavor, Deltastar's strong vigor makes it well-suited to longer cultivation cycles.
Key Performance Characteristics
- Fruit length: 16–18 cm
- Fruit color: Dark green, slightly ribbed
- Flavor: Good
- Shelf life: Excellent
- Plant habit: Open, vigorous — suitable for longer cultivation
- Best seasons: Summer, autumn, early spring
Disease Resistance
- HR: Cca, Ccu, Px
- IR: CMV, CVYV
Seed Specifications
- Seed treatment: Thiram (TMTD) treated as standard
- Packaging: Available in 25, 50, 100, 1,000 and 5,000 seed packs
Also consider Katrina F1 and Jawell F1 mini cucumber alternatives.
