Cucumber advice

[MisterE]

Hi all - it's me with my cucumbers again!

My cucumber plants are now about 5-6 inches high and have about 4-5 leaves on. I have just moved some outside into my small greenhouse and some are still inside the house. I have about 10.

However, most have now started growing flowers. Surely, the plants are too small to be able to grow cucumbers. This is the first year that I have tried to grow them and I thought that the plants grew quite big before fruiting.

Have I left the plants inside and in small pots for too long (I have just put them into 12" pots once they had about 4 leaves).

Should I pinch off the flowers or will the plant continue to grow after this lot of flowers.

Typically I gave my neighbour a plant and she has done nothing different and her plant is about 18" high - I might ask for it back!!

What am I doing wrong? HELP!

Thanks

E

[ljmckeever1]

Sounds like your neighbour bagged the best one!

From what I can gather cucumbers need the same attention as tomatoes in order to flourish, i.e you need to train them to run up canes !

Also you need to be careful not to over water (I'm sure you know that anyway!)

Good luck!