Organic Shintokiwa Cucumber

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60 days to harvest Cucumis sativus

Friends! What an extraordinary cucumber!

Organic Shintokiwa Cucumber’s smooth-skinned fruit, long & slender, has an impressively small seed cavity & a sweet flavor we’ve never tasted in another cucumber. She’s outrageously crunchy with plenty of juice, resisting becoming bitter even as she lengthens past 12 inches. Wow! We’ve found between 6 and 8 inches long to be the magic length of optimum sweetness. If you’d love Shintokiwa straight, train her up a trellis; if you love to let cucumbers spiral as we do, along the ground you’ll be delighted.

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Organic Shintokiwa Cucumber

60 days to harvest Cucumis sativus

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Friends! What an extraordinary cucumber!

Shintokiwa’s smooth-skinned fruit, long & slender, has an impressively small seed cavity & a sweet flavor we’ve never tasted in another cucumber. She’s outrageously crunchy with plenty of juice, resisting becoming bitter even as she lengthens past 12 inches. Wow! We’ve found between 6 and 8 inches long to be the magic length of optimum sweetness. If you’d love Shintokiwa straight, train her up a trellis; if you love to let cucumbers spiral as we do, along the ground you’ll be delighted.

It’s true, we loved ‘Suyo Long’ for many years and now love to sow Organic Shintokiwa Cucumber for her incredible flavor and productivity as well as resistance to Bacterial Wilt.

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1 review for Organic Shintokiwa Cucumber

Rated 5 out of 5

Yaeko (verified owner) – September 17, 2022

No cucumbers beat Japanese cucumbers that are crispy, tasty, and… you don’t have to peel skin off remove seeds. Shin-Tokiwais (meaning New Tokiwa) is one of the popular Japanese cucumbers, and they can be grown trellis or on the ground. When I go hiking, I pack a couple of Shin-Tokiwa in my back pack. Cucumbers are made up of around 96% water, and they are lighter than water bottles! Yes, I’m a big fun of Fuition Seeds because their seeds always germinate and grow well.
- Sylvia – September 29, 2022
  
  Thank you for being part of our community Yaeko & we love that you take these cucumbers hiking! -Sylvia and the rest of the Fruition Crew

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Organic Shintokiwa Cucumber

Direct Seed (recommended): Sow 2 seeds every 2’ (thin to 1) with at least 36” between rows after last frost. Trellis for easier harvest, straighter fruits & less disease pressure.
Transplant: Sow indoors 2-3 weeks before last frost in peat pots (plant entire pot) or soil blocks to minimally disturb roots when transplanted with above spacing.

Sowing Date: Soil 70 F, late May – early June
Seed Depth: 1/2 inch
Days to Germination: 3 warm – 10 cool
Days to Maturity: 75
Plant spacing after thinning: 3-4 feet
Height: Full vine

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