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Port Albert Cucumber
Port Albert Cucumber
A variety of cucumber
A stubby, torpedo-shaped cucumber with tender yellow skin and small black spines that stays tender at any size and crops heavily. Linked to the Albertland settlers around the Kaipara Harbour in Northland. Transplant at 1 m.
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Port albert cucumber facts
Lifespan
Crop cycle
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Optimal light
What are growing degree days?
A plant grows with warmth, not with days. A growing degree day is one day's worth of useful warmth: how many degrees the day's average temperature is above the lowest temperature the crop grows at. Add them up from planting and you know how far along the crop is, whatever the calendar says.
Say that lowest temperature is 10°C. A day averaging 17°C gives 7 growing degree days. A day averaging 8°C gives none, as it is too cold for the crop to grow. That is why the same lettuce takes about 50 days in a summer and 90 in an autumn: it needs the same total warmth either way.
For Port Albert cucumber, the FAO EcoCrop database gives a lowest growing temperature of 6°C and a shortest growing cycle of 40 days at its best temperature, about 760 growing degree days to a first harvest.
Where you've told us where your garden is, we use this and the weather there to predict when your Port Albert cucumber will be ready to harvest. We don't use it for how long a plant lives or when it finishes: we go by what members have logged for that.
Growing Port Albert cucumbers
- Sow seeds indoors 4 weeks before planting out
- Harden off the seedlings 1 week before planting out
- Put up a trellis or net 1 week before planting out
- Water deeply at planting out every week
- Mulch around the plants 2 weeks after planting out
- Feed with liquid fertiliser 5 weeks after planting out every 2 weeks
- Pick fruit regularly at first harvest every week
- Pull out finished plants 6 weeks after first harvest
Plant Port Albert cucumbers with
collard greens
Savoy cabbage
buttercrunch lettuce
striped cavern tomato
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Ecological requirements
Data from the FAO EcoCrop database for Cucumis sativus L.
| Family / Taxonomy | Magnoliopsida Dilleniidae Violales Cucurbitaceae |
|---|---|
| Life form | herb |
| Life span | annual |
| Habit | climber/scrambler/scadent |
| Optimal soil depth | medium (50-150 cm) |
| Optimal soil texture | medium, organic |
| Optimal soil fertility | high |
| Optimal soil drainage | well (dry spells) |
| Optimal soil salinity | low (<4 dS/m) |
| Photoperiod | short day (<12 hours), neutral day (12-14 hours), long day (>14 hours) |
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