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Post by Admin on Jun 22, 2011 21:43:49 GMT -5
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Post by sheila on Jun 24, 2011 2:00:59 GMT -5
I have all female flowers on my cucumber vines. What can I do? Can I cross pollinate with another veggie to ensure they survive?
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Post by Admin on Jun 24, 2011 10:35:29 GMT -5
Do you know what Cucumbers they are? I was just doing a little digging into this and found the info below which is very interesting.
Most cucumbers are Monoecious, They have male and female flowers, then there are parthenocarpic cucumber varieties that do not need fertilization to produce fruit but there is also hybrids that are gynoecious varieties that are breed to be mostly female flowers with very few male flowers. These later ones are the most productive but need a monoecious variety near by to insure pollination. I currently have that issue with burpless bush hybrid as mine have all females and no male flowers. I also have no other cucumbers in flower to get pollen from due to the hail storm. Its loaded with at least 20 female flowers.
Diva and Sweet Success are parthenocarpic so no need to worry about hand pollination, all that will do is create seeds in a seedless fruit.
If you got the seedlings from us they could be Diva so this would explain why there are no male flowers.
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Post by sheila on Jun 24, 2011 12:39:18 GMT -5
Thanks for your reply. I'm happy to say that I purchased them from you.
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