[Learnerlady]

Hi anyone else having problems with cucumbers this year?
Decided to plant La Diva this year as can grow outside or in greenhouse, I have both but neither location are performing well. Main issue seems to be lack of female flowers, plenty of male ones but so far only one female between 4 plants.....
Should I be taking some of these off?

[Subversive_plot]

The female flower production often lags the male flower production.  Give it some time, the female flower production should pick up.

[mumofstig]

I've got 3 tubs of them and at first I had loads, and was giving my spares to neighbours, now they seem to be dropping off when they're only about 2 ins long  I don't know what's going wrong, I'm treating them just the same - is it just the horrible weather, I wonder, it is getting quite cool at night?

[MrsPea]

 I had 2 plants in the greenhouse had 3 on 1 and 4 on the other in the end they went in bin got white fly, what i did have was a good size and tasty.

[New shoot]

My outdoor ones (Poona Kheera) are taking off into triffid mode.  I picked about half a dozen today and there are lots more forming.

I have tried La Diva before and it did act like a bit of a diva as I remember.  I have more luck with the heirloom ones.

[JayG]

Grown La Diva for several years in the GH - they're supposed to be an all-female variety, but as others have noted, they produce lots of male flowers (don't know whether the females ever get pollinated, but it doesn't seem to affect the fruits either way.)

I also get many aborted fruits as the summer progresses - hard to know why when growing conditions can be so variable, but I have read that they will give up setting new fruits when they 'think' they've successfully set seed.

Pick when small, keep feeding, cross fingers!
 

[Learnerlady]

Thanks for sharing experiences.
Guess like many things just need to see what happens. I have grown cucumbers before but the skins were always thick and bitter and I wanted a smaller one as only I like them in our house so came up with this variety.
Hopefully more female flowers will appear, at the moment I don't think I'll be enjoying many cucumbers this year !!

[mumofstig]

Grown La Diva for several years in the GH - they're supposed to be an all-female variety, but as others have noted, they produce lots of male flowers

At least       https://www.premierseedsdirect.com/product/cucumber-la-diva-f1/
knows it's not all female, as it notes that

it does not need male flowers removed.

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[Learnerlady]

Thanks Mum,
however things are looking up, have a couple of cucumbers developing on the outdoor ones so fingers crossed will be harvesting in a couple of days......

[Odders]

Hi anyone else having problems with cucumbers this year?
Decided to plant La Diva this year as can grow outside or in greenhouse, I have both but neither location are performing well. Main issue seems to be lack of female flowers, plenty of male ones but so far only one female between 4 plants.....
Should I be taking some of these off?

I'm growing Diva for the first time this year & they were slow to get started but now I have an abundance of young cucumbers coming on & had four to eat in the past week off three plants.

[Learnerlady]

Thanks for the update Odders

sadly slugs got one of the mentioned above but I have noticed another couple growing so fingers crossed they get going with this weeks warmer weather