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The difference with these is; they are from seed I saved from last year...........to hell with paying around a pound a seed.
Are these F1 hybrids TeeGee - not sure if their seed is sterile - or do you have to go and get rid of the male flowers every morning.
The original cucumber was indeed an F1 this is its spec;Prolific F-1;(bf) Outdoor slicing type,early maturity,good size & shape,mainly female flowering.As I said this is an experiment and I had no idea what to expect.Oviously they are not strerile or I would not have got as far as I have!
The two that are working ok are the small prickly kind, the other was supposed to be one of the longer varities.
I'm wondering if they need hand polinating,
or I'm supposed to pick the flowers off at some point...
Some of the flowers look to have mini cucumbers about 3 cm long behind them but they just go yellow and fall off after the flower has died back.
Others seem to have just a very small ball behind them which I dont think ever does anything else other than fall off with the flower
Do you reckon that a poor set leads to aborts
letting the side chutes grow