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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: LILLILEAF on June 04, 2023, 11:32

Title: cucumbers
Post by: LILLILEAF on June 04, 2023, 11:32

my cucumbers are growing very well, my question is do you keep the side shoots or get rig and just have the main shoot?.

Title: Re: cucumbers
Post by: missmoneypenny on June 04, 2023, 12:37

I leave them alone and let them ramble about. Seems to work for me.

Title: Re: cucumbers
Post by: LILLILEAF on June 04, 2023, 15:47

sounds good to me :D

Title: Re: cucumbers
Post by: Subversive_plot on June 04, 2023, 21:31

Another cucumber suggestion. 

I've recently read that you should always pick cucumbers before they develop any yellow on them. Keep them picked. The logic goes that yellow indicates that the cucumber fruit is sufficiently mature to have viable seed. Having reached that point with one fruit, the plant has done it's job, and starts to die.

This seems to follow what I have observed on plants where I've gotten lazy or too busy to keep up with picking. The vines start looking horrible, then die.

Title: Re: cucumbers
Post by: missmoneypenny on June 05, 2023, 20:30

I think that’s true and as the season progresses the yellowing seems to happen more and more quickly.