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Old August 7, 2016   #16
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I am also getting low production from Straight 8's. Last year I grew Sumter and Northern Pickling and harvested several five gallon buckets of cukes. Next year will revert back to the tried and true...
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Old August 7, 2016   #17
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I have only picked 4 cukes from my burpee str8's. Flowers all over the place just no cukes. I will not plant these ever again!
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Old August 7, 2016   #18
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I have 2 sets of straight 8s that are going nuts! I have so many that I been giving them away. Guess I must have just gotten lucky this year?
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Old August 7, 2016   #19
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I used to grow Straight 8's after one year of excellent production and taste. Several years after, just a few cukes and they were bitter.

I switched over to Marketmore and even better I planted North Carolina Pickling cukes and had 4 plants in each 3 gallon pot. I let em sprawl and had cukes everywhere. I been eating the pickler ones like regular cukes. Good flavor. Tastes like the big ones.

Only problem I had was so many vines and leaves even with pinching some of the vines back that I would some cukes and they would get big and fat and almost to yellow color, but were still yummy.
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