[mumofstig]

I've tried quite a few varieties, both ordinary and f1 all female sorts, and not had much success, getting fed up with it, as some of them are relatively expensive for just a few seeds!
I wouldn't mind that if they did actually produce some fruit 

Can anyone recommend a variety that can put up with cool weather at the start of the season, as I don't heat the greenhouse, although I do start the plants inside. I would really like a cuc that would just get on with it, without any drama.

So tell me your best variety, and if you grow it in pots or in the greenhouse border 

[DD.]

I'm growing Louisa F1 in pots in the unheated greenhouse and they've gone rampant.

Also Cucino minis and they're growing in bunches like bananas!

[mumofstig]

I'll have to make a list 

[seaside]

This year I have grown all female F1 Telepathy, which is widely available. Usually about £1.70 odd for 6 seeds.
I'm amazed how 'hardy' it has been, having made a few errors early on and them not liking it big time, including nearly freezing and being stood in standing water early on.
I currently have 2 in pots and 2 in the greenhouse border. The pots are only 12", rather undersized, and don't look as healthy as the border planted ones, probably a feed issue. The leaves are also a little too light green, BUT they're all continuing to produce like mad. Heaven knows what they would do if given better compost etc. I know the weather has been suitable, but I just can't keep up. 3 rather large cucumbers every 2 days now.
All in all, a great harvest, and a little more hardy than some I've tried.

[Springlands]

My Tiffany F1's are growing like triffids and I cannot keep up with the number of cucumbers that they are producing.

I also have a couple of Passandra (sp) which are a mini cuke and they are also producing well.

All of my plants were started off in the greenhouse in mid May when there were still some relatively cold days and survived well.

[JayG]

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I'm all eyes on this thread!

Outdoor Marketmore doing well with a few cukes filling out now but the greenhouse Passandra still only 60/40 alive/dead (up from 50/50 but still no cukes!)       

[pigguns]

My cold greenhouse is too hot!  I've got some spacemaker 80 doing well by the door already had a few off that and Konsa down the lottie in a pot against the shed producing 4/5 mini cues every few days.  Have a few other types around but slower- Akito was a pain to germinate, coming on now, but then so was a lot of things this year 

It's my first year of getting a crop, having tried and given up with 'greenhouse' ones and going for ridge now, so please I did- much better taste than the supermarket ones, even the kids agree.

[compostqueen]

I grow Cucino which has foliage which doesn't rampage all over the place like Passandra.  I picked two yesterday 

[DD.]

I grow Cucino which has foliage which doesn't rampage all over the place like Passandra.  I picked two yesterday 

As I said, I grow them also, maybe I should have mentioned that they not gone rampant, unlike the Louisa. They are very productive. I did post a photo of my first cutting, which was of 4 cucumbers, but 2 were doubles. Looked quite interesting in a salad.

[solway cropper]

La Diva works well for me. All female so no bitter fruit and smooth skin for those who don't like spikes on their cucumbers.

[A Reyt Tayty]

The best I've had in the last 3 years was one called Styx.

[mumofstig]

La Diva works well for me. All female so no bitter fruit and smooth skin for those who don't like spikes on their cucumbers.

That's the variety I'm having all my problems with this year................. mostly male flowers  So how are you growing yours?

[Jamboian]

We've grown Telepathy F1  for the last two years without any probs, growing them along with Bella F1 and Cucino this year, does anyone want a cucumber? Pop round we've got loads

[JayG]

My neighbour is what you might call a "non-technical" gardener (she doesn't even know which variety they are!)
She just plonks them in a growbag, trains them along a wire and picks the cukes (and gives me one when I peer over the hedge looking sorry for myself!)

Her greenhouse is a little more shaded than mine, although mine gets some shade too, but apart from that I can't see what the obvious differences are. Having failed with Passandra for two years on the trot I decided to only water from underneath the container and to cut down the overall amount, although this was probably thwarted when my other neighbour, in charge of watering for a week at the beginning of the month, cheerfully told me he only had to water twice because the first time he got a bit carried away and the floor of the greenhouse was a river! 

If anyone who has successfully grown Passandra, or any other all-female F1 variety can explain EXACTLY how they grow theirs (light, shading, type of compost, watering, feeding, incantations in a foreign tongue) I'd love to hear - I don't think I'm doing anything seriously wrong but then it doesn't take much to upset cukes does it? 

There's a little hope still left for this year's two Passandras, although the leaves still have a tendency to go very pale (white, eventually!) nearly as fast as it grows new ones (hence the 60/40 alive/dead.)

[mumofstig]

I don't think I'm doing anything seriously wrong but then it doesn't take much to upset cukes does it? 

Indeed  - I did ask people to say how they were growing them, cos I'm obviously doing something wrong as well