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My cucumber plants are not producing cucumbers-7 plants with flowers..what can i do?

My tomato & bell pepper plants planted at same time-are producing.

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i do not see many honey bees--how can you tell a male flower from a female flower?

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  • Mike
    Lv 7
    9 years ago
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    Wait. Usually the male flowers appear first and, after a week or so, the female flowers form. Then the bees will get busy going from one to the other.

  • blecha
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    i'm curious too. I surely have 2 youthful ones that are blooming precise so which you are going to be able to must wait and spot. seem up your interior reach agriculture enterprise or nursery and ask in the event that they convey about organic and organic fertilizers. they could have ones with NPK 6-6-6 or an 8-8-8. you like much less nitrogen (N) and extra phosphorus (P) and potassium (ok) which aids in getting extra and extra effective culmination and vegetables. Nitrogen aids the vegative develop yet you (and that i) might extremely have your plant life working at making extra and extra effective cucumbers extremely than engaged on being larger plant life. The 6-6-6 fertilizer i take advantage of is derived from feather meal, steamed bone meal, potassium sulfate and gysum that are all discovered clearly. that's difficult to over fertilize with it and it will artwork on your total backyard once you're a actual 'bypass getter' then they could be discovered bought one by one and combine your individual - slightly extra cost-effective. Aloha

  • 9 years ago

    First the plant must have enough foliage to flower. Then, as stated above, the first flowers are male. Femalscome later (they have a swelling behind the flower, the males don't). Be patient.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    be sure to water them good in the mornings it could be timing to and the weather .. mine arnt doing much right now its been hot .. if theyre in fertile soil be sure to check good .. some plants are real good at hiding a couple of monsters way down underneath everything and they appear to not be producing much while theyre growing big daddy down there .. will be about as big as a baseball bat when you find it lol ..

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    wait.

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