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Growing => Growing in Greenhouses & Polytunnels => Topic started by: mickmick on August 16, 2013, 18:44

Title: Cucumbers in a greenhouse
Post by: mickmick on August 16, 2013, 18:44

Hello. How high do you let your cucumbers grow. Do I just nip the top off like beans when they`re at the top of the stake.  ????

                      Mick

Title: Re: Cucumbers in a greenhouse
Post by: BobE on August 16, 2013, 22:40

Thats what I did.  It does produce a lot of fruit.  So to me that was enough.

Title: Re: Cucumbers in a greenhouse
Post by: mickmick on August 17, 2013, 07:45

Thanks Bob.

                      Mick

Title: Re: Cucumbers in a greenhouse
Post by: devonbarmygardener on August 18, 2013, 01:12

Hello.
Got a couple of friends from the Netherlands here now! :)

I have tied my cukes from whatever I can and let them go as long or high as they like :)

Title: Re: Cucumbers in a greenhouse
Post by: wil4025 on August 18, 2013, 12:40

ive found that chop off cucumber at top and you will find it should shoot out of sides and grow more cucumbers

Title: Re: Cucumbers in a greenhouse
Post by: brianbishop on August 18, 2013, 13:31

Two plants in my P/Tunnel,6feet up to the ridge and 3 feet along strecher bar, still producing like a triffid, have had about 25 fruits since !st July.Neighbours run away when they see me coming!!!!
Bish

Title: Re: Cucumbers in a greenhouse
Post by: mumofstig on August 18, 2013, 13:48

I wish I lived near you  :nowink: mine are pants again  :(

Title: Re: Cucumbers in a greenhouse
Post by: mickmick on August 18, 2013, 14:16

I got the greenhouse in the begining if July. Thats when I planted the cucumbers. A bit late with everything but I wanted to get started. I`m hoping to hear about an allotment at the end of the year.

                                                     Mick

Title: Re: Cucumbers in a greenhouse
Post by: Aunt Sally on August 18, 2013, 14:23

Mine are doing well this year but I like to grow them along the roof as I don't have any vertical space left for them. So I don't nip out the leader but the side shoots out after about one or two fruits.

Title: Re: Cucumbers in a greenhouse
Post by: seaside on August 18, 2013, 14:50

My experience is that cucumbers are more resilient than the accepted myth, but maybe that's because I'm growing them in the  greenhouse border rather than in pots. Three households are being supplied this year from my 4 plants and still there are too many.

For all intents and purpose, I don't think the fruiting is affected much by which method of pruning, staking is used as they would normally snake along the ground like squash. Regular picking is obviously a good idea though.

It is probably more a question of personal choice and  whether one has a tidy mind, and wants to be able to walk into the greenhouse without being attacked. I would rather not be attacked, but often am as I just don't get around to the staking thing much.