Metki Painted Serpent Cucumber: Growing Tips

Key facts

Listed for

United States

Overview

Metki Painted Serpent is an Armenian-type slicing cucumber, which botanically means it is a melon rather than a true cucumber. The vines bear very long fruit, dark green and marked with paler stripes, giving the striped, snakelike look behind the name. Like other Armenian types it is grown and eaten as a cucumber, and it appreciates warm weather and a trellis to keep the fruit from curling.

Metki Painted Serpent traits

• Armenian type, botanically a melon
• Long fruit, dark green with pale stripes
• Grown and eaten like a slicing cucumber

Good for

• Fresh slicing
• Salads

Compare with other cucumber varieties

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Metki Painted Serpent FAQ

Sowing, care and common problems

Sowing times, care and common problems are the same for every cucumber variety, so they are covered once in the growing guide.

• Cucumber growing guide
• How to Plant Cucumbers: Spacing, Soil and Putting Up Supports
• Pruning Cucumbers: Removing the Lowest Side Shoots and Topping the Vine
• How Often to Water Cucumbers and When to Feed Them
• Cucumber Growing Calendar: What to Do Through the Season
• Cucumber Diseases and Pests: Keeping Mildew Out of the Crop
• When to Pick Cucumbers and Why They Come Out Curved
• All 241 cucumber varieties

Source

Source: Cornell University (CALS Garden-Based Learning)

The text on this page is our own summary written from the published variety record, not a copy of it.

Written byYasuGrowing vegetables and fruit in Chiba, Japan, and building Gadenin. Corrections are welcome. 15 years of growing.