Cucumbers - lotta vine, no fruit
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 |
Cucumbers - lotta vine, no fruit
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Cucumbers - lotta vine, no fruit
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 |
Cucumbers - lotta vine, no fruit
"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 :) |
Cucumbers - lotta vine, no fruit
"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. |
Cucumbers - lotta vine, no fruit
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. |
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