ABSTRACT
Cucumber is an edible cucurbit popular throughout the world for its crisp texture and taste. Cucumber is a truly versatile vegetable because of wide range of uses from salads to pickles and digestive aids to beauty products. Air temperature is the main environmental component influencing vegetative growth, flower initiation, fruit growth and fruit quality of greenhouse cucumber. Growth rate of the crop depends on the average 24 hour temperature, higher the average air temperature, faster the growth. Selection of variety is one of the most important decisions made during crop production process. The cucumber plant displays a variety of sex forms like monoecious, gynomonoecious, gynoecious, andromonoecious and androecious; predominantly monoecious type of form is present in most of the varieties. Cucumber can be grown successfully round the year under greenhouses. The optimum number of fruits per plant varies with the cultivar and even more with the growing conditions.
