Cucumber Trials Summary - 2000
Todd C. Wehner (Professor)
and Tammy L. Ellington
(Agric. Res. Tech. III)
Department of Horticultural Science, North Carolina State University,
Raleigh, NC 27695
The authors gratefully acknowledge the assistance of
Jimmy Prince and the personnel at the Horticultural Crops Research Station,
Clinton, NC for help in planting maintaining, and harvesting the trials,
and to Marie Hall for assembling this report.
About This Report
The data contained in this publication are made available to interested
persons so that they will be informed as to the nature and scope of
our cucumber breeding program. Since the results of the trials are based
on one year's data, they should be interpreted cautiously. Genotype
x environment interactions make it likely that the performance of any
given cultigen (cultivar or breeding line) will be significantly different
in other trials. Often, cultigens that perform well for yield, earliness,
fruit quality, or disease resistance in one trial will perform significantly
worse in other trials.
Other factors, known only to the researchers, may complicate the interpretation
of the results, making it difficult for others to interpret differences
from one year to the next. For example, the effect of seed lot, pollenizer,
harvest labor, irrigation, fertilizer, pollinating insects and weather
patterns may cause some test plots in the field to receive better or
worse treatment than average. Therefore, we urge caution in interpreting
these data. Conclusions drawn by the reader will be more accurate if
they are of a general nature. For example, note which cultigens performed
in the top third for yield, rather than which one was at the very top.
Costs
The cost of planning these trials, doing the field work, running the
data analysis, and summarizing the results for this report was approximately
$48,000 for the brinestock, pickling and slicing cucumber trials. Printing
and binding charges were approximately $3.00 per report (paper version).
Pricing for Yield Calculations (grades, diameters)
- No.1 (< 1 1/16"): $18.30/cwt
- No.2 (1 1/16 - 1 1/2"): $9.55/cwt
- No.3 (1 1/2 - 2"): $6.45/cwt
- No.4 (> 2"): $0.00/cwt
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