Growing Cucumbers
 

I have a cucumber vine growing up a fence. It's has the male
flowers blossoming as well as the female flowers. It also has
what appear to be cucumbers, but the female flower hasn't
blossomed on them yet.

How do I go about hand fertilize these and making sure they
produce cucumbers and is there a way to tell if they're fertilized.

http://www.microcosmotalk.com/images...r/cucu3844.jpg

I've noticed that one of the cucumber looking female flowers
blossomed, fell off and that particular one is changing color, going
from deep green to maybe brown or yellow.

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Jim Carlock
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On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 18:59:46 GMT, "Jim Carlock"
wrote:

===I have a cucumber vine growing up a fence. It's has the male
===flowers blossoming as well as the female flowers. It also has
===what appear to be cucumbers, but the female flower hasn't
===blossomed on them yet.
===
===How do I go about hand fertilize these and making sure they
===produce cucumbers and is there a way to tell if they're fertilized.
===
===http://www.microcosmotalk.com/images...r/cucu3844.jpg
===
===I've noticed that one of the cucumber looking female flowers
===blossomed, fell off and that particular one is changing color, going
===from deep green to maybe brown or yellow.


Hell all I have ever done is throw cuke seeds in the ground under a
piece of metal cattle panel thats positioned on about a 45 deg angle
add water and let em do their thing. I have always had a ton of cukes
hanging down off the bottom other panel, and would not know a female
cuke from a male cuke and usually have more cukes than the average
family can eat every year all in a very small space in the corner of
the garden.
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"Jim Carlock" wrote in message . com...
I have a cucumber vine growing up a fence. It's has the male
flowers blossoming as well as the female flowers. It also has
what appear to be cucumbers, but the female flower hasn't
blossomed on them yet.

How do I go about hand fertilize these and making sure they
produce cucumbers and is there a way to tell if they're fertilized.

http://www.microcosmotalk.com/images...r/cucu3844.jpg

I've noticed that one of the cucumber looking female flowers
blossomed, fell off and that particular one is changing color, going
from deep green to maybe brown or yellow.

you have cucumbers. Just wait and they will grow to the size you
desire. pick them small.

Thanks to Roy and Simy. Laughed pretty good at Roy's
response.

Does anyone know how to keep squirrels away from this
kind of stuff.

I had a problem with what I thought were Mexican squirrels,
but it appears they were either rats or baby possum. I saw
what I thought was a rat outside and I was convinced it was
a rat... but the dogs went after a bigger version of it about a
month later and the thing rolled over... it looked like a bigger
rat... and it played dead. But the more I thought about it, the
more I wonder if it was a baby possum. The poodles put a
real good scare into it and I'm sure it's still out there, it seems
to like the neighbors yard and it is very good at climbing. So
I'm wondering if there's a thorny bush or shrub or tree that
might work to keep the critters out of the cucumbers. I lost
all the corn to whatever combination of critters it was that
enfattened and feasted. That rat looked pretty plump. Do
rats do that roll over and play possum thing?

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Jim Carlock
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"Jim Carlock" wrote:
I have a cucumber vine growing up a fence. It's has the male
flowers blossoming as well as the female flowers. It also has
what appear to be cucumbers, but the female flower hasn't
blossomed on them yet.

How do I go about hand fertilize these and making sure they
produce cucumbers and is there a way to tell if they're fertilized.

http://www.microcosmotalk.com/images...r/cucu3844.jpg

I've noticed that one of the cucumber looking female flowers
blossomed, fell off and that particular one is changing color, going
from deep green to maybe brown or yellow.


"simy1" Replied:
you have cucumbers. Just wait and they will grow to the size you
desire. pick them small.