CptnJack5parrow
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Cucumber pollination problems

My cucumber vine was only growing female flowers so I stressed the plant by watering it much less and now I finally see starts of male flowers. Should I now water it normally or wait until the male flowers are ready?
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JONA
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Sure it wasn't an all female hybrid Captain?
If it was...you don't want males at all.

CptnJack5parrow
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JONA wrote:Sure it wasn't an all female hybrid Captain?
If it was...you don't want males at all.
But if it's an all female doesn't that mean that it doesn't have males att all? I have had male flowers in the past when the plant was more than 10 times shorter. Also the cucumbers don't grow after their flowers have bloomed.

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Some of the parthenocarpic cucumbers do produce and occasional male flower but they do produce primarily female self pollinating flowers. Stress and especially drought stress can cause squash and cucumbers to alter the flowers that bloom from female to male. Gynecious cucumbers usually have some monoecious seeds to produce male flowers for polllination.

https://hortnews.extension.iastate.edu/ ... mbers.html
https://cucurbitbreeding.com/wp-content/ ... oblems.pdf

CptnJack5parrow
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imafan26 wrote:Some of the parthenocarpic cucumbers do produce and occasional male flower but they do produce primarily female self pollinating flowers. Stress and especially drought stress can cause squash and cucumbers to alter the flowers that bloom from female to male. Gynecious cucumbers usually have some monoecious seeds to produce male flowers for polllination.

https://hortnews.extension.iastate.edu/ ... mbers.html
https://cucurbitbreeding.com/wp-content/ ... oblems.pdf
The cucumbers don't grow after their female flower has bloomed, does that mean that they are not self pollinating?



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