"Billy" wrote in message
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If you leave the flower on, you'll taste a fresh cucumber earlier.

Unless it's a male flower, which it probably is since they come first.

To the OP: Take off the bottle and leave the plant alone except for watering
and weeding. It will have male flowers a few weeks before it has female
(fruiting) flowers.
--S.