Backyard Aquaponics
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I checked the cucumber vines today and there are about 6 or 7 flowers already! - this plant is in one big hurry!

So you used the correct moon cycle then AM - deliberate or accidental

Accidental - these seeds germinated on their own from a cucumber I left to one side in order to harves its seeds (then I forgot about it )

Here are the pics of the Cucumber... even more flowers today

Nice looking plan AM - mine has it's first flowers on it now, both male and female. The bush is tiny compared to yours.

hmmm, did not think to check for male and female flowers ... whats the difference with these flowers then?

The mail have got a little spike and the female have there mouth wide open [joke] making a noise

ROFLMAO - I cant share the images that brought to mind

Yep - the male ones have what looks like a little cucumber behind the flower.

will have to do a check tomorrow to see if there are both and how many of each... I have always just left nature to do its thing and not bothered to look closely at the flowers

VB, sorry to contradict you, but it is the female flowers that have a miniature cuke behind the flower. I believe first flowering will usually be male. After fertilization, the female flower dries up, and the miniature cuke starts growing. This also applies for squash. If you have an excess of male squash blossoms, they can be battered and fried.

No lewd imagery intended.

LOL

Thanks for that janetpelletier

Thanks JP - I must be real tired or something. SInce when did males ever produce prodgeny

The Phallic symbols must have clouded the mind

You may be right AM. When the fruit is not that sort of shape then the mind is on the phallic symbols within the flower itself. I do a lot of hand pollenating of my pumpkins