How are your cukes doing?

  • suzuki
    Woodbury, Mn
    Posts: 18625
    #1631240

    I have never seen anything like this. Lots of flowers but no fruit. Out of 5 vines I have seen only two actual cucumbers. Its like the flowers arent getting pollinated or something. Just wondering if anyone else is experiencing this?

    rschmidty
    Posts: 173
    #1631245

    Same here but ours are zucchini.

    Tom Sawvell
    Inactive
    Posts: 9559
    #1631252

    Our cukes are doing great with this damp weather and high humidity. We’ve been eating them for lunch and our evening meals every day for the last week and a half. I had three small hills and could have gotten by with two.

    On another note, my buttercup squash is all over the place. I had three hills planted with “bush” type seeds. I have squash running thirty feet from where the hills are so there must have been a mis-print on the package. Not complaining but Ma isn’t real ticked that we have squash climbing a Tamerisk tree next to the garden nor climbing way up into a huge lilac bush there too. I’ll need a ladder to pick a few of these if they don’t get big enough to break the small limbs off. The squash have invaded the raspberry bed and we have many fruits hiding in the canes.

    My cukes are planted right next to these insane squash but are doing really well, so I haven’t a clue what’s happening to your vines.

    suzuki
    Woodbury, Mn
    Posts: 18625
    #1631256

    Mine are right next to some insane summer squash that are multiplying like germs!
    On the bright side my tomatoes are doing very well but not ripe for a while yet.

    Aaron
    Posts: 245
    #1631257

    Are you lacking on some bees being in the area to pollinate the plants?

    BigWerm
    SW Metro
    Posts: 11650
    #1631258

    Our Zucchini’s are going nuts! But our beans haven’t shown signs of producing anything yet, hopefully they are just a little behind.

    Dusty Gesinger
    Minnetrista, Minnesota
    Posts: 2417
    #1631264

    Our cucumbers are doing very well, maybe they will pop here anytime for you?

    Eelpoutguy
    Farmington, Outing
    Posts: 10440
    #1631270

    cucumbers cry
    tomatos yay

    dfresh
    Fridley, MN
    Posts: 3053
    #1631285

    Getting cukes, zucchini and spaghetti squash so fast we can’t keep up. You see a tiny cuke on day and seems like the next day it is too big. Bees are key.

    MNdrifter
    Posts: 1671
    #1631290

    cucumbers cry
    tomatos yay

    X’s 2.
    Had BLT’s for the first time this year tonight. Mmmmm. For lunch tomorrow too. And probbably so on and so on for the next month I soppose until I end up with so many tomatoes I will start canning.

    suzuki
    Woodbury, Mn
    Posts: 18625
    #1631352

    I dont know what it is. All the other flowering stuff in my yard has gotten pollinated including a cherry tree. Its a bummer because I love home grown cukes. I’ll have to pick some up at the farmers market to get my fix.

    erick
    Grand Meadow, MN
    Posts: 3213
    #1631355

    My summer squash I cut down 2 of 3 plants because I could not keep up. I got 1 quick batch of cukes last weekend and all this week the plants went wild with flowers and doubled in size. I think they will go crazy next week after that heat seems to me they spent most their energy expanding rather than producing. I looked this morning and have a pile of small ones that appeared yesterday.

    glenn57
    cold spring mn
    Posts: 11834
    #1631368

    my cukes are all over also with a whole lotta flowers. think I picked close to a bushel already, all I know is there coming faster then we can eat them so tomorrow some are getting processed.
    my kalarabi is going gangbusters as well!!!!!!!

    Sharon
    Moderator
    SE Metro
    Posts: 5455
    #1631369

    Our garden usually does very well with cucumbers and this season is starting off great! I’ve brought in a few to my office and they disappeared quicker than the donuts! waytogo

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    Art Green
    Brookfield,WI
    Posts: 733
    #1631606

    Invest in some mason bee houses. They are tiny bees, but can pollinate a lot of flowers.

    glenn57
    cold spring mn
    Posts: 11834
    #1632841

    My cukes for as nice as they started sure went south in a hurry. frown sad looks like there dryinup and dieing. Still producing some but not what I’d like. After a little research I think it’s a fungus or some disease. Any suggestions?

    MNdrifter
    Posts: 1671
    #1632848

    My cukes for as nice as they started sure went south in a hurry. frown sad looks like there dryinup and dieing. Still producing some but not what I’d like. After a little research I think it’s a fungus or some disease. Any suggestions?

    Wish I could help bud. This years crazy amount of rain has got me too. I’ve been trying to spray fungicide on my tomatoe plants but I think it’s a lost cause. I think when you notice it it’s already too late. Looks like I may have enough for one batch of salsa this week, but then I think I’m going to pull the plants to help not spread the fungus any more than it already has. Good luck.

    glenn57
    cold spring mn
    Posts: 11834
    #1632850

    I will have tomatoes coming out of my ears I have 2 super sweet 100 cherry tomatoes and 18 other tomato plants. Earky girls, big boys and big beef. Got the plants from fleet farm. I put Epson salt by the stalk about every 4th watering. My plants get that blight every year even if I water them with a water can.

    Now my cukes, bawling this is the second year in a row they did this and I move them around. Wonder if the epsom salt does it??? I usually get all I need other wise

    carver
    West Metro
    Posts: 609
    #1632854

    Had the same happen to ours as well.

    We did have cucumber beetles as well for the first time. They were also on our tomatillo plants as well and got most early enough.

    The types of seeds we got this year were pickles and crispers vs the normal cucumbers we usually get.

    We are not sure either whats going on.

    suzuki
    Woodbury, Mn
    Posts: 18625
    #1632889

    My old seed place (Dege) closed so I ended up buying them at a random nursery in a pretty package. I had to plant at least 20 to get 4 sprouts so it doesnt surprise me what happened. Still nothing. Vined out well and a couple oddly small cukes with lots of vacant flowers. Bummer.

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