Hi, my cucumber plant has dozens of male flowers but only 2 female ones
- so it doesnt look like its going to fruit much! Any ideas how to get
more female flowers?

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Hi, my cucumber plant has dozens of male flowers but only 2 female ones
- so it doesnt look like its going to fruit much! Any ideas how to get
more female flowers?

Remove, and keep removing, the male flowers. Next year, go to your garden
centre and buy a plant with only female flowers.

Steve

How old are the plants? Mine didn't start putting out female flowers until
the plants got fairly big. Now I have cukes everywhere.

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Hi, my cucumber plant has dozens of male flowers but only 2 female ones
- so it doesnt look like its going to fruit much! Any ideas how to get
more female flowers?

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Hi, my cucumber plant has dozens of male flowers but only 2 female ones
- so it doesnt look like its going to fruit much! Any ideas how to get
more female flowers?

Not going to fruit much? Are you kidding? How much fruitier do you want
it to be? It's obviously a 10%er. But hey, if it's happy, who are you to
judge? Don't ask. Don't tell. Definitly don't let the neighbors know. If
they find out that you don't have a traditional garden, there could be
heck to pay:-)

On 31 Jul 2006 03:27:27 -0700, wrote:

Hi, my cucumber plant has dozens of male flowers but only 2 female ones
- so it doesnt look like its going to fruit much! Any ideas how to get
more female flowers?


Be patient. They usually start with a bunch of male flowers before
the females really start appearing.
--
Susan N.

"Moral indignation is in most cases two percent moral,
48 percent indignation, and 50 percent envy."
Vittorio De Sica, Italian movie director (1901-1974

On 31 Jul 2006 03:27:27 -0700, wrote:

Hi, my cucumber plant has dozens of male flowers but only 2 female ones

I know little about cucumbers but I grow a type called Diva that prodces
only females, no males needed for pollination. You can read about them
he

http://www.reimerseeds.com/diva-cucumbers.aspx

Oh yes, they are the only type I grow and I love cucumber sandwiches!

Keep them in mind for next year.

"shazzbat" writes:
wrote in message
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Hi, my cucumber plant has dozens of male flowers but only 2 female ones
- so it doesnt look like its going to fruit much! Any ideas how to get
more female flowers?

Remove, and keep removing, the male flowers. Next year, go to your garden
centre and buy a plant with only female flowers.

I'm reasonably sure that I read on one of the gardening newsgroups that
if you pinch the growing tips off their main stems curcubits will start
producing female flowers. I haven't tried this, but if the cucumber vines
have reached a good spread, this could be tried.
--
John Savage (my news address is not valid for email)