Keystone is a long English cucumber for winter, and potentially fall crops, with high total yield potential, high percentage marketable fruits and Intermediate Resistance to Cucumber green mottle mosaic.
- Good percentage early and total medium fruits
Features
- Generative Hybrid
- Good Fruit Quality
- High Total Yield Potential
- Good Plant Vigor at Crop End
- Open Plant Habit
- Good Fruit Setting and Resetting
- Good Side Shoot Vigor throughout the Crop Cycle
- Suitable for Umbrella and Potentially High Wire Environments
- Uniform Fruit Size, Dark Green, Nice Rib and Limited Bottlenecked Fruits
- Suitable for Winter, and Potential Fall Crops
Advantages
- Early access to market with medium fruits
- Constant production of medium fruits
- Extended crop possible
Agronomic Tips
- Planting rate: 1.50 – 1.55 plants / m2 Recommended planting time: Winter -Late December and January; Fall - September
Disease Resistance
Disease Resistance (HR)
Cca/Ccu
Disease Resistance (IR)
CGMMV/CVYV/Px
Characteristics
AVERAGE LENGTH
12.5-14.5 inches
CROPPING TYPE
Traditional, Highwire
EXTERNAL COLOR
Dark Green
FLOWER HABIT
Gynoecious Normal
HARVEST UNIFORMITY
Good Uniformity
HARVESTING SEASON
Spring, Winter
PLANT HABIT
Generative
RELATIVE MATURITY
Medium
SEEDLESS
Seedless
SEGMENT
Long Dutch (Continental)
SHAPE
Straight
SKIN DESCRIPTION
Ribbed
SOWING SEASON
Summer, Winter
TRANSPLANTING SEASON
Autumn, Winter
VIGOR
Strong