r/Cucumber

I am a novice gardener and I've had varying degrees of success. One of the things that I'm still not clear about is fertilizing. When I first started, I definitely did not feed my plants well because I didn't understand the timing of how it all needed to come together. This growing season, which is my third, I'm getting a little more adept; however, I still don't know when to use which fertilizer when.

Once my seedlings were established, I fertilized them with Vigoro and that has been a rousing success. Now that my Persian cucumbers are blooming I'm frozen because I don't want to under-fertilize but I don't want to over-fertilize either. Is now even a good time to introduce a different fertilizer? The fertilizer I have for blooms is Incredible Bulb as well as fruit and bloom booster.

Fertilize or chill?

So I planted a few cucumbers thinking they were all of the same variety. But it looks like they’re not. Someone told me I have pickling, cucumbers, possibly Garking and regular. I’m really confuse and don’t know what to do with all these cucumbers. Any advice would be extremely appreciated. I don’t want to see these go to waste.

My cucumber plant is flowering a lot but all of them are male flowers. I have had only 4 female flowers since it started flowering and 3 aborted with only this cucumber surviving. Right now there is no other female flower on my plant with a lot of male flowers. What can I do about this problem? How to fight this very masculine plant?

I checked under the leaves for eggs or bugs and I saw nothing. No fine webbing, but my leaves are spotted and some have crispy edges. Baby cukes have dried up, which I’m assuming is to preserve energy.

Anyone have any idea? What do I do to fix this? Is it normal?

My first double cucumber!