Notes
Pickler. 1-row. Pick at 3–4 in.
Cultivars / Cucurbits
National Pickling
Cucumber · Cucumis sativus
DTM
52 d
117 d occupancy · tender
Rows
1
12 in in-row
Density
1
plants / bed-ft
Yield
7.6
lb / bed-ft
Direct $/ft
$14.68
$2.10 / lb
Propagation
- Method
- Direct or transplant
- Cell size
- 72s
- Nursery lead
- 21 d
- Germination
- 5 d
- Germ temp
- 60°F – 95°F (opt 80°F)
- Seed spacing
- 12 in
Field geometry · 30 in
- Bed width
- 30 in
- Rows / bed
- 1
- In-row
- 12 in
- Seed spacing
- 12 in
- Plants / linear ft
- 1
- Plants / 50 ft
- 50
Timeline
- DTM from field
- 52 d
- Holding
- 35 d
- Occupancy
- 117 d
- Multicut
- yes · 16 cuts · 2 d
- Fall photoperiod
- ×1
- Frost hardiness
- Tender
Yield & revenue
- Sales unit
- lb
- Units / bed-ft
- 7.6
- Avg unit wt
- 1 lb
- Target lb / bed-ft
- 7.6 lb
- Cull rate
- 8%
- Wholesale / Direct
- $1.25 / $2.10
Irrigation
- Drip lines / bed
- 1
- Emitter spacing
- 8 in
- Emitter GPH
- 0.5
- Weekly water
- 1.6 in
- GPH / 50 ft
- 37.5
- Gal / week · 50 ft
- 124.7
Soil extraction
- Fertility demand
- Heavy
- N / 100 bed-ft
- 1.8 lb
- P / 100 bed-ft
- 0.55 lb
- K / 100 bed-ft
- 2.4 lb
- N-P-K / 50 ft
- 0.9 / 0.3 / 1.2 lb
- Family
- Cucurbitaceae
On this farm · 50 ft block
- Season window
- 2026-04-15 → 2026-09-15
- First greenhouse
- 2026-03-25
- First harvest
- 2026-06-06
- Successions that fit
- 3 · every 14 d
- Bed-ft for 50 lb
- 8 ft
- Seed for 50 ft
- 59 seeds · 50 plants
- Wholesale / Direct · 50 ft
- $437.00 / $734.16
Companions
bean · pea · radish
Avoid
potato · sage