Very nice Howard.

I have some varieties (Japanese, Armenian) that can grow 15" long if I do not pick them early. I have just picked some today. I am going to measure some right now:
Here it is; The longest one is 13 inches. Cannot beat yours though.
I have let one to grow for seed, that probably is about 16 inches long.

I saw some of your pictures. They are very nice. It seems that you are doing a good job.
Keep it up and enjoy the rewards of your hard work.

Cyrus

I recently picked a "Sweet Success" cucumber that grew to about that long, though I didn't measure it. They're supposed to grow to 14".

in our green house we have a heirloom cuke call Telegraph.

it is not bitter and does not give you the burbs.

if we let it go it will exceed 15 inches.

the skin not tough like so many cukes.

we saved seed from last year and last year a friend gave us about 100 seeds to start.

i think we have about 300 in the green house this year.

WM

Gotcha' beat by an inch, Howard. I just went down and took this pic of one of my cukes still on the vine. It measured 16". I've decided to leave it and see just how much longer it gets before spoiling. I put a shard under it the the day. There is one next to it that is 15".

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Cyrus, I didn't read your post before I posted. I wonder how long these pickles will get?

I am growing Burpless too and they are long and skinny like yours.

This is an Asian variety, very tasty, not bitter, very productive!

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Silvia

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That pickle can grow probably couple of more inches. But then it will not be edible. Just leave it for seeds.
Today I measured my seeds cuke; it is 16". It has turned brown since mid june and still on the vine, well and alive.
The skin has developed fine cracks like some melons.
When the stem dries up I will pick and process it. Probably I will get 500 seeds from it.
But, cukes taste better if picke younger, when the seeds are completely soft, skin is thin and tender. When you slice it, juice runs off of it. I just love them with skin on.
This is off topic but it is amazing to me that a lot of people peel even fresh cucumbers but they eat tomatoes with skin and seed. Tomato skin and seeds are very very tough, and not digestable. I even peel and seed out my salad tomatoes.

This is my second year gardening. My first year I planted cucumbers and was impressed by how well I did. (I was also severely annoyed that the rodents in my garden got more cukes than I did.)

This year I added fresh soil to my garden, and my husband built me a lovely trellis for my cucumbers. I thought they did well last year, but this year they're amazing. I am not growing the super long kind, but the cukes are plentiful.

ever try growing cucumbers & putting a canning jar over the cuke as it is growing? A neighbor did that & pickled the cuke in the jar for each of her grandkids!

Never heard of putting a canning jar over a cuke, but I have a video " The Victorian Kitchen Garden" and the head gardener tried something that used to be done years ago. He had these special long glass tubes that he would slip a young cucumber into as it hung on the vine. This caused the cuke to grow straight and proper!

Cyrus, how do you "process" the cuke for seeds? Run the flesh through a sieve? Dry the seed where and how long?

vieja,

I did manage to grow some in bottles and then filled it vodka. I have heard that this vodka will be exceptional.
I will have them for special occasions.

I don't grow long cucs.....at least not intentionally. The only cuc I can grow without the bugs killing them is County Fair pickling cucs. Here's a pic of one of them atop a QUART canning jar. I guess I should have picked it sooner! haha

Here is a link that might be useful:

I planted a bunch of "Snow Fancy Pickling" cucumbers and had a racoon or something dig up all but 3 plants. So I bought two "burpless" plants at the home center as that was all they had left so late in the season. They're all growing and producing and I've picked a couple of each variety at only about 4-5 inches long. The Snows seem to be short and fatter than the burpless.

But my question is this - this is my first time growing them and both varieties, especially the Snow, have spines coming right out of the cucumbers!! I never saw a cucumber with spines before! So I can't see how I can get away with NOT peeling them! How do I get rid of the spines? I planted the Snows specifically to grow for pickling (which is another thing I've never done before!) and I didn't plan on peeling them before pickling so what do I do?

Lisa

My County Fair cucs have spines too. You must rub them off. But the skin on mine is usually tough, so I peel it off routinely.

My burpless are long and skinny too. If I leave them on they will get as long as I want. The reason I pick them is to keep the vines producing. Plus i think they taste better when they're younger. These suckers get long....