The best pickling cucumbers for open ground and greenhouses: choosing the best varieties and hybrids of cucumbers

Not every cucumber that has grown in the country can be pickled. For planting in salting, special varieties are selected, the best of which we present to you in our cucumber top!

For pickling, it is customary to select cucumbers that meet certain requirements.

What cucumbers are suitable for pickling?

Cucumbers ideal for pickling are those in which:

• prominent pimples (tubercles), always with black spikes, which are easily removed when fully ripe;
• dense and crispy pulp;
• cucumber size – greens should be about 7-10 cm. Cucumbers up to 5 cm in size are most often pickled, more than 10 are served fresh;
• with few small seeds. It is not desirable to have a large seed, even in a small amount;
• thin, dense skin without bitterness;
• there are no voids inside the fetus.

In addition, gardeners used to prefer dark green pickled cucumbers, now there is considerable demand for light green varieties and hybrids.

NOT suitable for pickling cucumbers:

• with porous pulp;
• with many seeds or with large seeds;
• with a thick skin;
• with voids inside;
• watery;
• with bitterness.

13 best varieties of pickles for greenhouses and open ground

Cucumber F1 Summer resident’s dream

Manufacturing company: Aelita

• Cucumber for cultivation in the open and protected ground.
• An early ripe parthenocarpic cucumber hybrid (the period from germination to fruiting is only 42-44 days).
• The yield of this hybrid is high – 18-19 kg of cucumbers per sq.m.
• Plants are vigorous, female type of flowering. Cucumbers (zelentsy) are short, oval, 10-11 cm long, weighing 95-105 g, with sparse black pubescence. Cucumbers are juicy, crispy, without bitterness, with a pleasant aroma, excellent taste.
• Hybrid F1 Summer resident’s dream great for salads, pickling and canning.
• Resistant to complex diseases.

Cucumber F1 Summer resident’s dream

Cucumber Pupyryshkin

Manufacturing company: Aelita

• Cucumber variety for open ground and film shelters.
• A new early-ripening variety (from germination to fruiting only 38-45 days).
• The yield when grown under the film reaches 10-12 kg per square meter, in open ground – 3-5 kg ​​per square meter.
• Bee-pollinated variety, with partial parthenocarpy (part of the fruit is tied without pollination by bees).
• Plants are medium climbing, predominantly female type of flowering. Fruits of the gherkin type, short (6-9 cm), large-tuberous, black-thorned, even – one to one.
• Cucumbers are good in barrel pickling and in traditional canned preservation.

Cucumber Pupyryshkin

Cucumber F1 Pickled

Manufacturing company: Aelita

• Cucumber for cultivation in open ground and under temporary film shelters.
• Mid-early high-yielding cucumber hybrid (50-55 days from germination to fruiting), predominantly female type of flowering. 
• Cucumber – green Zelenets, 9-11 cm long, weighing up to 110 g, tuberculate. No bitterness, sweet and strong.
• This cucumber hybrid is used for pickling and making homemade preserves.
• Possesses complex resistance to the basic diseases of a cucumber. The yield of one plant – cucumber – 4-5 kg.

Cucumber F1 Pickled

Cucumber F1 Burevestnik

Manufacturing company: Manul

• Cucumber hybrid for open ground, tunnels, spring greenhouses.
• Early maturing parthenocarpic beam hybrid of gherkin type cucumber.
• It stands out for the abundance of greens on the plant, amicable initial fruiting, long-term massive return of the crop.
• Branching is average or above average. Zelentsy tuberculate, white-thorned, intense green color without whitish, oval-cylindrical, 11-13 cm long, with often-medium pubescence, crispy and fragrant.
• Pickled cucumbers, canning with high taste qualities.
• The hybrid is resistant to olive blotch, cucumber mosaic virus, tolerant to powdery mildew and downy mildew.

Cucumber F1 Peanut

Manufacturing company: Manul

• Cucumber hybrid for open ground, tunnels, spring greenhouses.
• Parthenocarpic fruitful tufted mini-gherkin female type of flowering.
• Cucumbers – Zelentsy tuberculate, white-spiked, with medium pubescence, 6-8,5 cm long, beautiful green color, dense, with high canning and very high palatability, outgrow weakly. Branching is good.
• The cucumber hybrid is distinguished by a long period of fruiting and high remontance – a constant increase in shoots with active ovaries. It reacts positively to additional pollination – the early and total yield of cucumbers increases.
• A more active filling of Zelentsov manifests itself at moderate air temperatures; in conditions of overheating, the formation of fruits may weaken.
• The hybrid is resistant to powdery mildew, olive blotch, common cucumber mosaic virus, tolerant to downy mildew, bacteriosis.

Cucumber F1 True friends

Manufacturing company: Manul

• Cucumber hybrid for open ground, tunnels, spring greenhouses.
• A popular, very early maturing bee-pollinated tufted gherkin cucumber hybrid of a female flowering type.
• It enters fruiting on the 37-39th day from germination.
• Cold hardy hybrid. Branching is weak, which greatly simplifies plant care. It is characterized by abundant fruiting in any growing conditions. Cucumbers – tuberculate greens, black-thorned, oval-cylindrical, 8-10 cm long. 
• Salting and taste qualities of the hybrid are very high.
• Cold-resistant, resistant to olive blotch, cucumber mosaic virus, tolerant to powdery mildew and downy mildew. 10% of the pollinator, F1 Bumblebee or F1 Nectar is sown to the hybrid.

Cucumbers F1 Petrel, F1 True friends, Cucumber F1 Peanut

Cucumber F1 Teremok

Manufacturing company: Manul

• Cucumber hybrid suitable for open and protected ground
• High-yielding bee-pollinated beam hybrid of gherkin type.
• Plants of female type of blossoming, branching average or below average. Zelentsy tuberculate, black-thorned, 8-12 cm long, very high pickling and taste qualities. In nodes, from 3-4 to 6-9 ovaries are formed. 
• This cucumber hybrid is designed for barrel pickling, as well as for preserving mini-cucumbers in jars.
• Resistant to olive blotch, cucumber mosaic virus, powdery mildew, tolerant to downy mildew. 10% of the pollinator, F1 Bumblebee or F1 Nectar is sown to the hybrid.

Cucumber F1 Hit of the season

Manufacturing company: Manul

• Cucumber hybrid for open ground, tunnels, spring greenhouses.
• Parthenocarpic high-yielding early-beaming gherkin cucumber hybrid.
• RELIABLE HYBRID – thanks to the complex resistance to diseases and adverse environmental conditions, it gives a consistently high yield in any conditions.
• Good regrowth of lateral shoots in combination with type II self-regulation of branching ensures long-term active fruiting until late autumn. In the nodes, from 2-3 to 5-6 or more ovaries are formed. Zelentsy beautiful bright green color, white-thorned, with dense crispy flesh, with often-medium pubescence, 9-12 cm long; 
• Pickling and taste qualities of cucumber are very high.
• Shade-tolerant.
• The hybrid is resistant to powdery mildew, olive blotch, common cucumber mosaic virus, tolerant to downy mildew, root rot.

Cucumbers F1 Teremok, F1 Hit of the season

Cucumber F1 Athos

Manufacturing company: Agroholding POISK

• Cucumber hybrid for open and protected ground.
• Ultra early parthenocarpic hybrid (38-40 days).
• Dense crispy cucumbers are great for pickling and pickling.
• Bouquet type (up to 3-5 ovaries per node) ovaries. Fruits – cucumbers 6-9 cm long, small-tuberous, white-thorned, dark green, dense, crispy, without voids, do not bitter and do not turn yellow.
• The hybrid is cold hardy.

Cucumber F1 Ladies’ Man

Manufacturing company: Agroholding POISK

• Cucumber hybrid for open and protected ground.
• Early ripe (38-42 days from germination to fruiting) and super-yielding cucumber!
• Parthenocarpic hybrid
• Fruits are 8-10 cm long, small-tuberous, white-thorned, tasty, crispy.
• The hybrid is suitable for fresh consumption, as well as pickling and pickling.

Cucumbers F1 Ladies’ man, F1 Athos

Cucumber F1 Fast and Furious

Manufacturing company: Agroholding POISK

• Cucumber hybrid for open and protected ground.
• This cucumber hybrid is a yield champion!
• Early ripe parthenocarpic hybrid (38-42 days pass from germination to fruiting).
• There are 2-3 ovaries in the node. Fruits are 10-12 cm long, dark green, large-tuberous, white-thorned, distinguished by excellent taste.
• Disease resistant.
• Cucumbers are ideal for canning.

Cucumber F1 Fast and Furious

Cucumber F1 Pickled

Manufacturing company: Russkiy Ogorod

• For cultivation in an open ground and film shelters.
• Yielding early ripe hybrid, specially created for canning.
• The gherkin is small-tuberous, white-thorned, dark green, in a classic German shirt.
• Resistant to complex diseases.

Cucumber F1 New NezhinskyCucumber F1 New Nezhinsky

Manufacturing company: Russkiy Ogorod

A bee-pollinated cucumber hybrid that surpasses the popular variety of the same name in taste and pickling qualities! It will allow you to get lightly salted and pickled cucumbers, which were once delivered to the royal table. This is your chance to remember the taste of the best pickled cucumber! A beautiful classic “Russian” shirt will make the blanks especially attractive.

Cucumber F1 Pickled, Cucumber F1 New Nezhinsky