Cucumber: male/female flowers

MargeSimpson · Posted: Tue May 10, 2011 4:34 pm Post subject: Cucumber: male/female flowers

I just pulled a flower from my cucumber plant thinking it was a male flower and now I'm second guessing myself.

The first pic shows a female flower and the second pic is a male... right?

Margo · Posted: Tue May 10, 2011 5:07 pm Post subject:

Yes the female has the baby cucumber behind the flower

galwaybeginner · Posted: Wed May 18, 2011 8:38 pm Post subject:

Check the variety you are growing. It is a common myth that all need the male flower removed.
Seems to have become 'common knowledge' in last fwe decades, but I've been reading a few old (60's and 70's) gardening/veg books and aparently there are toehr causes for bitterness and the male flowers are blamed a lot fo the time incorrectly.