Cucumber growth

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Cucumber growth
« on: June 30, 2010, 15:30 »
Unlike some members here, my cucumbers in the greenhouse are roaring away with masses of flowers, some cucs waitng to get bigger and lots of leaves.
I know that with toms you cut away the excess bottom leaves but do you also do this with cucumbers/

The leaves are really big and shade the light from the lower growing cucumbers - do they need light?

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Re: Cucumber growth
« Reply #1 on: June 30, 2010, 15:43 »
It won't do any harm to do this, as you say, you then let the light in.  After all, you won't get cukes from leaves :tongue2:
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Re: Cucumber growth
« Reply #2 on: June 30, 2010, 16:29 »
I only cut yellowing leaves from tomatoes, as they've done their job.

Leaves are the plant's food factory and I'd never contemplate trimming leaves off a healthy cucumber plant - they're quite capable of finding their own infections, thank you very much.

A bit shade from it's own leaves won't do it any harm, that's probably why nature made them so big in the first place.
Did it really tell you to do THAT on the packet?

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Re: Cucumber growth
« Reply #3 on: June 30, 2010, 17:19 »
Thanks for the advice...........er both of them!
Reckon I will just leave well enough alone and just praise it each time I visit.

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Re: Cucumber growth
« Reply #4 on: June 30, 2010, 18:05 »
I only cut yellowing leaves from tomatoes, as they've done their job.

Leaves are the plant's food factory and I'd never contemplate trimming leaves off a healthy cucumber plant - they're quite capable of finding their own infections, thank you very much.

A bit shade from it's own leaves won't do it any harm, that's probably why nature made them so big in the first place.

I was just thinking something similar to your last sentence DD.  I'm guessing that nature has created each plant for maximum crop and survival?  Mind you, not that cucumbers are well known for this!

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Re: Cucumber growth
« Reply #5 on: June 30, 2010, 18:21 »
I'm guessing that nature has created each plant for maximum crop and survival? 

Maximum crop does not always mean survival. Many of the plants we grow have been messed with to such an extent they would never survive without assistance.

I don't think mother mature intended cukes to be grown here and she certainly didn't account for a greenhouse  :D



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