Cucumber Flowers

 

Hi, my cucumber plant has dozens of male flowers but only 2 female ones
- so it doesnt look like its going to fruit much!  Any ideas how to get
more female flowers?

 



Remove, and keep removing, the male flowers. Next year, go to your garden
centre and buy a plant with only female flowers.

Steve

 


I'm reasonably sure that I read on one of the gardening newsgroups that
if you pinch the growing tips off their main stems curcubits will start
producing female flowers. I haven't tried this, but if the cucumber vines
have reached a good spread, this could be tried.
--
John Savage                   (my news address is not valid for email)

 

How old are the plants? Mine didn't start putting out female flowers until
the plants got fairly big. Now I have cukes everywhere.

 

 hellochicken@hotmail.com wrote:


Not going to fruit much? Are you kidding? How much fruitier do you want
it to be? It's obviously a 10%er. But hey, if it's happy, who are you to
judge? Don't ask. Don't tell. Definitly don't let the neighbors know. If
they find out that you don't have a traditional garden, there could be
heck to pay:-)