Cucumber
Trials Summary - 2005
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 Robbie Brogden and the personnel at the Horticultural
Crops Research Station, Clinton, NC for help in planting
maintaining, and harvesting the trials.
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 $5.00 per report (paper version).
Pricing for Yield Calculations (grades, diameters)
- No.1 (< 1 1/16"): $19.30/cwt
- No.2 (1 1/16 - 1 1/2"): $11.05/cwt
- No.3 (1 1/2 - 2"): $7.75/cwt
- No.4 (> 2"): $0.00/cwt
NCSU Cucumber Breeding Report (HTML versions)
NCSU Cucumber Breeding Report (pdf version)
