Comments on: cucumber-growing q&a, and the best pickles ever https://awaytogarden.com/cucumber-growing-qa-and-the-best-pickles-ever/ 'horticultural how-to and woo-woo' with margaret roach, head gardener Tue, 26 May 2020 16:39:02 +0000 hourly 1 By: Joanne Calafiura https://awaytogarden.com/cucumber-growing-qa-and-the-best-pickles-ever/comment-page-2/#comment-1076728 Tue, 26 May 2020 16:39:02 +0000 https://awaytogarden.com/?p=15073#comment-1076728 My cucumbers are not setting fruit. Female flowers are abundant, so are males, but even when I hand-pollinate, female baby-cucumbers do not grow, dry up and fall off. Never happened to me before. Any suggestions?

Joanne

]]> By: margaret https://awaytogarden.com/cucumber-growing-qa-and-the-best-pickles-ever/comment-page-2/#comment-1049183 Wed, 09 Aug 2017 16:02:37 +0000 https://awaytogarden.com/?p=15073#comment-1049183 In reply to Linda Harris.

Thanks, Linda — funny that I had it right in the second reference and flubbed it in the first! Thank goodness for you.

]]> By: Linda Harris https://awaytogarden.com/cucumber-growing-qa-and-the-best-pickles-ever/comment-page-2/#comment-1048990 Mon, 31 Jul 2017 02:33:56 +0000 https://awaytogarden.com/?p=15073#comment-1048990 dioecious-having unisexual flowers borne on separate female or male individuals.

monoecious-having unisexual flowers of both sexes borne on the same individual.

I believe that your statement that cucumbers are dioecious is incorrect. Other than that, I always enjoy your posts. Thanks for all the effort and time that you spend on your site.

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