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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: George the Pigman on August 06, 2017, 19:23:37
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I have two different varieties of cucumber plants standing next to each other in large pots in my greenhouse. One is producing lots of juicy cucumbers. The other (Burpee Tasty Green -an all female variety) looks healthy, is growing well and producing lots of flowers but these wither before producing fruit.
Any idea what's happening?
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Had it been the other way round.. I would say lack of fertilisation... but as it's all female that shouldn't be the issue.. not got the tags mixed up?
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The other plant is all female too. Unless the label was mixed up at the garden centre-always possible of course! If that was the case how can I persuade it to fruit?
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Try misting the flowers with some clean water this might help the setting process!
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Tasty Green always seems to cause confusion. It is an f1 hybrid but it isn't self fertile/all female
It can be grown outside as a ridge cucumber and needs pollination. Can you move it outside, so the pollinating insects can get to the flowers?
Lots of info here
http://www.sfgate.com/homeandgarden/article/
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No chance of moving it out. It's twining up a home made trellis in the greenhouse. Why does the label say all female when it's not??
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My Burpee Tasty Green plants are outside and producing loads of cucumbers. I don't think they like growing in a greenhouse as I grew mine there last year and they only produced a few and didn't taste as good as this years do.