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Questions tagged [cucumbers]

Cucumis sativus, member of the gourds with cylindrival "fruit" which are eaten as a vegetable.

Cucumbers (Cucumis sativus) is a member of the gourd family (Cucurbitaceae). It grows as vines producing cylindrical green fruit, which are eaten as a vegetable. It is a popular choice for salads and sandwich garnish.

Cucumbers originate in India, and the earliest known evidence for cultivation dates back to Western Asia and the Epic of Gilgamesh.

Cucumbers are typically eaten fresh (eg. in salads and sandwiches) or pickled for longer shelf lives. These are known as "pickles" in the US or "gherkins" in the UK (a gherkin is actually the same species as a cucumber but technically a different cultivar).

Use this tag for all questions about growing cucumbers.

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Is there anything wrong with letting cucumbers get large?

The top and light green cucumber is the one in question. I thought it was fitting to use a cherry tomato for scale. Is there anything wrong with letting a cucumber grow that large? Is there a well understood difference in flavor or texture? Any…
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Cucumber leaves turning white, dying, with yellowish powder

I have some cucumber plants (sorry, not sure which type), with a couple in a large, long pot, and one other in a small pot by itself. The plant in the small pot has a reasonably-sized cucumber, about 5 inches long, while the other plants are…
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Why did my young cucumbers turn yellow and fall off?

small cucumbers turned yellow http://imagizer.imageshack.us/a/img537/2604/223Te1.jpg My baby cucumbers turned yellow and fell off. I have 2 cucumber plants that produced 8 cucumbers each, however, the other flowers with small cucumbers turned yellow…
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What are the practical differences between cucurbits grown from seed and cuttings?

What are the practical differences between cucumbers grown from seed and cucumbers of the same maturity level and equivalent root maturity from cuttings? Is there a significant difference between yield and fruit size/quality of cucumbers grown from…
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How do you collect and keep cucumber seeds for planting the next year?

So I see there are seeds in cucumbers. But they're always so soft that I don't notice them when I eat the cucumbers. I'm assuming that means the seeds are just young and not ready to be collected yet (kind of like how watermelon seeds start soft…
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What's causing my cucumber & melon vines to wither away?

I am in the UK and my cucumber and melon plants have started wilting. I used to water them twice a week and increased the frequency to once every two days since they started fruiting. They were planted in May and were growing well until two weeks…
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Cucumber plants are healthy, but wilt badly in hot sun, then recover

If cucumber plants are growing well, wilt very badly in the sun, revive quickly in shade and over night, is the wilting harming them? Their soil tests okay for water. I am in northern California and the sun gets blazing hot with temperatures up to,…
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What are these spots with yellow halos on my cucumber leaves?

They've been growing for 3 months so I assume they're at the end of their lifespan- but I want to identify this. Is this a disease or just some sun beating down on it?
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Wilted cucumber plants; watered during the afternoon

I left out my cucumber plants in direct sunlight after planting the transplants and came back the next day and they were wilted. I watered them in the afternoon, will they recover?
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Is this the cucumber mosaic virus?

We tried growing cucumbers in our backyard near San Francisco, California for the first time this year and have had all sorts of problems. We had to remove three cucumber plants because they seemed to have some sort of disease that we thought was…
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First ever homegrown cucumber was bitter

I consider myself a beginning vegetable gardener, even though I've been working with ornamentals for 30+ years. After several years of trying, I've finally managed to get my first ever homegrown cucumber. We don't go into all the failures as they…
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How do I prune cucumbers?

I am growing cucumbers in Central Florida. I have cucumbers that are rapidly growing and just starting to bear fruit. I read you should remove suckers or the growth branch off the main branch. How exactly do I need to prune cucumbers? Do I do this…
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Sowing cucumbers, do I really have to place the seed on its side and cover in clingfilm?

Instructions on the packet of cucumber seeds I'm holding say I need to: Plant the seed on its side Cover the pot with clingfilm after sowing I get that these are measures which will help germination. But how vital is it to get these fiddly and…
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Cucumber plant turning yellow and babies dying

I live in Los Angeles and am growing cucumbers in a container. My cukes were going like gangbusters until about a week ago, had probably 10 little baby cukes growing, and then my leaves started turning yellow. The whole plant is light yellow now,…
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What to do when cucumbers are turning yellow and dying but leaves are ok

I'm learning to garden and have successfully grown bottle gourd and zucchini. I also planted cucumbers but they are turning yellow and I cannot figure out what is wrong. I have looked at a variety of information on the Internet and some of it is…
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