 This research investigated the possibility of chilling tolerance in cucumber seedlings through employing drought and low-temperature pretreatments, which improved seedling growth, chlorophyll content, total phenol, TP, and antioxidant enzyme activities, while reducing chilling injury index and malondialdehyde, MDA, content. The results showed that drought pretreatment had a better effect on inducing chilling tolerance into cultivars compared to temperature hardening. This article was authored by Fardin Gumbari and Sajad Kordi.