I've been checking my cucumber plants (I have two) every day looking for male flower(s) to pollinate the females. There are probably 10-15 female flowers on each cucumber plant at any given time but no males. Now I have had one cuke grow on each plant (one I picked yesterday and the other I will pick today) so obviously I did get a male flower that I'm guessing a bee found a week or two ago.
My cantaloupe is the exact opposite.. probably has 30 male flowers and not a single female and unlike the lucky cucumbers I got it doesn't look to have set any fruit. So my question, is there anything I can or should be doing to encourage growth of both male and female flowers?
Apart from the male/female issue, the plants are doing quite good, good growth, etc.
I can't recall the variety of the cantaloupe but the cukes are the standard "burpee hybrid" that I sprouted from seed.
Thanks everyone for any advice.