Cucumbers - lotta vine, no fruit

[Hypatia08@gmail.com]

Anybody else in So. Calif coastal have this prob? Two varieties of
cucumber - one "regular", one lemon cuke. Gorgeous vines with
beaucoup blooms. ONE *&*&^%ing cuke from each variety.
Please share your wisdom. Tx!

Hypatia

[Bill[_13_]]

In article
>,
wrote:

> Anybody else in So. Calif coastal have this prob? Two varieties of
> cucumber - one "regular", one lemon cuke. Gorgeous vines with
> beaucoup blooms. ONE *&*&^%ing cuke from each variety.
> Please share your wisdom. Tx!
>
> Hypatia

My cukes are producing one fruit per vine. Seems kinda cool
temperature wise. Pollinators seem OK. Tomatoes slow too.

8/29/08 4:36 PM and it is 76 F.

Bought some S Jersey locals that looked normal but were hard and yellow
inside.

Weird

Bill

--
Garden in shade zone 5 S Jersey USA

[Zootal[_3_]]

The only cukes I have that are producing are some Japanese cukes I got from
rareseeds.com. They are putting out beautiful 16" cukes that are only one
inch in diameter. Absolutely wonderful. The rest of my cukes are taking over
the general area, but no fruit yet. Melons are doing the same - lotsa vines,
no fruit, few flowers.

> wrote in message
...
> Anybody else in So. Calif coastal have this prob? Two varieties of
> cucumber - one "regular", one lemon cuke. Gorgeous vines with
> beaucoup blooms. ONE *&*&^%ing cuke from each variety.
> Please share your wisdom. Tx!
>
> Hypatia

[Zootal[_3_]]

"Bill" > wrote in message
...
> In article
> >,
> wrote:
>
>> Anybody else in So. Calif coastal have this prob? Two varieties of
>> cucumber - one "regular", one lemon cuke. Gorgeous vines with
>> beaucoup blooms. ONE *&*&^%ing cuke from each variety.
>> Please share your wisdom. Tx!
>>
>> Hypatia
>
> My cukes are producing one fruit per vine. Seems kinda cool
> temperature wise. Pollinators seem OK. Tomatoes slow too.
>
> 8/29/08 4:36 PM and it is 76 F.
>
> Bought some S Jersey locals that looked normal but were hard and yellow
> inside.
>
> Weird

I have literally hundreds of green tomatoes. I planted 45 plants this year,
and they are exploding out of the ground. Most are over six feet tall and
loaded with green tomatoes. I'm afraid one day I'm going to go out to the
garden and find a hundred or more tomatoes have ripened overnight. At which
point I'll end up spending hours and hours making salsa and canning sauce. I
think I have about 5 quarts left from last year, so the timing is about
right :)

[Cheryl Isaak]

On 8/29/08 4:39 PM, in article
, "Bill"
> wrote:

> In article
> >,
> wrote:
>
>> Anybody else in So. Calif coastal have this prob? Two varieties of
>> cucumber - one "regular", one lemon cuke. Gorgeous vines with
>> beaucoup blooms. ONE *&*&^%ing cuke from each variety.
>> Please share your wisdom. Tx!
>>
>> Hypatia
>
> My cukes are producing one fruit per vine. Seems kinda cool
> temperature wise. Pollinators seem OK. Tomatoes slow too.
>
> 8/29/08 4:36 PM and it is 76 F.
>
> Bought some S Jersey locals that looked normal but were hard and yellow
> inside.
>
> Weird
>
> Bill
I had quite a few and since the rains in August, only one or two fruit on 4
vines. Very few tomatoes, and no fruit set on my Aunt Ruby's German Green.
Went to the farm stand were I bought them and they seem to be having the
same issue. Lots of buds, no fruit. My Bull's Heart and Tula Blacks are
reluctant to set fruit too. The smaller toms are setting well.

Cheryl

[enigma]

"Zootal" > wrote in
:

> The only cukes I have that are producing are some Japanese
> cukes I got from rareseeds.com. They are putting out
> beautiful 16" cukes that are only one inch in diameter.
> Absolutely wonderful. The rest of my cukes are taking over
> the general area, but no fruit yet. Melons are doing the
> same - lotsa vines, no fruit, few flowers.

my lemon cukes are taking over the garden & producing like
mad. my Jimmy's White cukes are making lots of male flowers,
but no female flowers.
somehow i have an Asian Tiger melon growing in the cukes row,
& it's also setting fruit like crazy, while the Asian melons
in their own corner only have 2 fruits on 6 vines...
my tomatoes look wonderful, or they would if it were the end
of July rather than the end of August :p i'm seriously
considering putting a temporary greenhouse over the tomato
rows...
lee <has a dozen black swallowtail caterpillers on the dill
right now. i plant extra for them>
--
Last night while sitting in my chair
I pinged a host that wasn't there
It wasn't there again today
The host resolved to NSA.

[Hypatia08@gmail.com]

On Aug 30, 6:57 am, enigma > wrote:
> "Zootal" > wrote om:
>
> > The only cukes I have that are producing are some Japanese
> > cukes I got from rareseeds.com. They are putting out
> > beautiful 16" cukes that are only one inch in diameter.
> > Absolutely wonderful. The rest of my cukes are taking over
> > the general area, but no fruit yet. Melons are doing the
> > same - lotsa vines, no fruit, few flowers.
>
> my lemon cukes are taking over the garden & producing like
> mad. my Jimmy's White cukes are making lots of male flowers,
> but no female flowers.
> somehow i have an Asian Tiger melon growing in the cukes row,
> & it's also setting fruit like crazy, while the Asian melons
> in their own corner only have 2 fruits on 6 vines...
> my tomatoes look wonderful, or they would if it were the end
> of July rather than the end of August :p i'm seriously
> considering putting a temporary greenhouse over the tomato
> rows...
> lee <has a dozen black swallowtail caterpillers on the dill
> right now. i plant extra for them>
> --
> Last night while sitting in my chair
> I pinged a host that wasn't there
> It wasn't there again today
> The host resolved to NSA.

Thanks for interesting & varied results. I may have another 2-3
lemon cukes under way, so stay tuned! They have such a wonderful,
mild flavor. For the person who suggested it was too cool -- nah, not
here. We have had unusually icky weather. So Calif coastal is
supposed to be dry, but there have been days you'd think you were in
Hong Kong! Gets to where I go out in the garden morning and evening,
but stay inside during the hot part of the day.

As to tomatoes: I got a lotta seeds in the mail from my Canadian
friend, but they didn't take. What DID take? I bought two gorgeous
Hibiscus -- the ones that aren't really Hibiscus; have blue flowers;
name escapes me -- and potted them up w/my own mix of home-made
compost, just plain dirt, and perlite. Tomatoes came up in droves!
I am constantly transplanting them to veg garden in back, where they
are fruiting up a storm. Maybe this year I'll get to use that darling
Italian tomato press I bought a few years back -- another good tomato
year -- when I canned a lot.