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Cucumbers, you are better growing the all female flowered varieties. If you grow a variety with male and female flowers you need to take off all the male flowers, because if they fertilise a female flower the resulting cucumber will be extremely bitter.
Quote from: valmarg on June 25, 2010, 15:37:09Cucumbers, you are better growing the all female flowered varieties. If you grow a variety with male and female flowers you need to take off all the male flowers, because if they fertilise a female flower the resulting cucumber will be extremely bitter.Depends, I grow Burpless Tasty Green, says on packet do not remove male flowers, I even hand pollinate the ones in the greenhouse and they taste great.
Quote from: valmarg on June 25, 2010, 15:37:09Cucumbers, you are better growing the all female flowered varieties. If you grow a variety with male and female flowers you need to take off all the male flowers, because if they fertilise a female flower the resulting cucumber will be extremely bitter.Depends, I grow Burpless Tasty Green, says on packet do not remove male flowers, I even hand pollinate the ones in the greenhouse and they taste great.[/quoteOoops, sorry pardon Chrispy, I'm probably giving my age away, but when we first grew cucumbers the only ones available were the ones with male and female flowers. You needed to pick off the male flowers because if you left any on and the females were pollinated by the males the resulting cucumbers were just sooo bitter.It's probably a throwback to this that has never ever tempted us to grow male/female cucumbers.Burpless. Thats a good name for a cucumber. What we know them as is 'all wind and water'. ;D ;Dvalmarg