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In addition to doing a great job growing tomatoes autopots are ideal for growing cucumbers. These Telegraph Improved plants were started from seed on 3/1/10, and are just beginning to produce male flowers today, 4/7/10. I expect to be picking fruit in early May.

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Well it is almost the middle of May and the fruit is coming along nicely. It takes awhile for these to reach full size, as they grow over a foot long. This "baby" cucumber still has the remains of the flower bud, and it is almost 10 inches long. Probably still be a few days until it meets my lettuce in a salad.

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nice grow

Are you useing organic ferts?

I have also had these results with the auto pot systems, they are fantastic and easy to use for any beginners. great work!

Cool, I like cucumbers!

What cultivar are you using?

The cultivar was Telegraph improved.

Wow! welcome back hydrogardener, two years since your last post!

I had never heard of autopots before, interesting idea.

As I understand it, from looking it up a little https://futuregarden.com/howto/autopots.html , it is basically a self watering container, except that the main reservoir is separate, and the actual reservoirs for the plants are filled via valves, so that the water only "appears" as needed, with some wet/ dry cycle going on (I'm still fuzzy on the details, obviously). That sounds like a good thing. Regular self-watering containers often keep the soil/mix too wet too continuously and cause problems.

The autopot may or may not count as "hydro" depending on what you put in the pot. They can be used with regular soil/ potting mix (in which case it is a smarter kind of self-watering container) or with sterile media such as hydro growers use, perlite, rockwool, lava rock, clay pebbles, etc.

Hydrogardener, what medium do you have in your autopots?