cucumber plants

[elmac]

do you have to have more than one cucumber plant in the green house for pollination of plant :-\ so to produce fruit

[elmac]

[redrichwen]

I may be wrong, but i thought that if cucumbers get pollinated they will produce bitter fruit.  :-\
Hence the reason why you pick off the male flowers, or buy the all female varieties.

I'm sure someone who knows better will be along shortly to correct me if i'm wrong.

[saddad]

Modern F1's don't need fertilising... hence all female varieties. Old open pollinated ones like crystal apple do and it is better to have several plants but I think one would do it as the male and female flowers are on every plant...
:-\

[kt.]

I sowed 6 seeds and 5 have germinated - after a month! But have picked up well since. Once the first came, they all came.

[cleo]

It`s all answered-F1 varieties are all female,older types such as Telegraph(the once standard) should have the male flowers removed-they are the flowers with no baby fruit behind them.

One or two plants should give you more cus than you know what to do with :)

[elmac]

 :) hi,   thanks for the advise on the cucumber plants ... im gonna try two female plants  to see how they fair  ;)

[tim]

Unless you have g/children & neighbours, Stephan?

[dirtyfingernails]

and watch out for the snails - I had 4/5 germinated, doing lovely and went in this morning to find 3 of them had been eaten back to theri stalks and the big fat culprit lurking down the side of the seed tray - arrrgghhh!  >:( (and I should add that they were on the top level of my greenhouse staging which isn't attached so I don't know how it managed to get up there!)

[Rosyred]

I've had that too DFN will the stalks grow again or is that it?