View Cucumber Plant Only Has Male Flowers
Pics. The plant is on a trellis and is about 36 tall and has had numerous male flowers but not one female. I have the same problem as chantal, i have only male flowers and they have been flowering for at least a month.
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They produce the pollen needed to form the fruit, but they do not produce the fruit. Cucumber plants, like squash, melons, and many other plants have separate male and female flowers on the same plant. Requiring no pollination and producing seedless fruit.
Cucumber plants have separate male and female flowers on the same plant.
It also has a large ovary (immature fruit). You can recognize the male flowers because they do not have a small fruit behind them. I have searched the internet relentlessly trying to figure out what is going on with my cucumber plants but haven't gotten anywhere! My understanding is that female flowers bloom a week or so after male flowers and that is only after the plant is able to sustain fruit.
