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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: BumbleJo on July 25, 2016, 21:47

Title: Marketmore Cucumbers
Post by: BumbleJo on July 25, 2016, 21:47

Hi folks.  My outdoor cucumbers are growing well, plenty of flowers and one small cuce so far.  My question is should I pinch out the side shoots when they grow beyond a certain length like with squash? Or just leave 'em alone to take over the allotment...
Cheers.

Title: Re: Marketmore Cucumbers
Post by: mumofstig on July 25, 2016, 22:18

I always just let them get on with it  :)

Title: Re: Marketmore Cucumbers
Post by: juvenal on July 25, 2016, 23:41

I pinch the young plants out when they have eight leaves. But pinched out or not, they always seem to perform well.

Title: Re: Marketmore Cucumbers
Post by: JayG on July 26, 2016, 08:56

I've got two plants in a large planter - the initial single shoots were trained up some plastic trellis netting, but each one now has 2 or 3 other shoots trailing across the compost and over the edge - I'll probably nip those out if they get near the ground to make life more difficult for the slugs and snails.

So, neither properly trained nor a master plan for pinching out ::) (no cukes yet either, but they have put on a spurt in the recent warm weather and are now flowering.)  ;)

Title: Re: Marketmore Cucumbers
Post by: BumbleJo on July 26, 2016, 14:27

Thanks folks, will let them get on with it for the time being then.  Watching and waiting for the next cuce..!