I have a crystal lemon cucumber. Plant is about two feet high and has about four separate stems.
It is covered with loads flowers both male and female.
But none of the females are swelling and turning into cues. Should I remove a lot of flowers to give the plant enough strength to begin swelling the fruit.
The courgettes are more sensible and only seem to open one flower at a time.
Nah.. just let it go.. in a week you should have a glut...
Many thanks. Lts hope so. I will give it a bit of feed and water.
I think the babies at 1-2 cm are the most delicious cucumbers (cornichons?) I've ever eaten - though they do need a good rub on your pants to get the sharps off the spines.
That may even help your plant produce full size fruit - BUT DON'T LET THEM BECOME ACTUALLY YELLOW! When they go very pale green they are perfect, and stay edible enough when white, but when they reach yellow they taste the same as other cucs do when they go yellow - bland, watery and seedy.
Cheers.
I grew some the first year I had the Lottie. At the moment they are about ½cm. Lots of them. Maybe the rain will get them excited.
I had not thought to try them so small vinlander