Even though this is a Marijuana growing forum, this is my favorite thread to see progress in. I have never saw a cuc grow b4. I bet ur leaves went yellow because the nutes are now being focused to produce the cucs first and leaves are secondary, just a guess tho...

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Me too, this is my fav. thread.
Kudos Bella
Thanks

Awww, thanks guys <3

i had some cucumbers in a dwc system as well, they are very very hungry plants!!! they got so big i had no choice but to pull them from indoors and put them outside. they are currently recouping alongside a row of week old cukes. more notably they are a very resistant plant. i had a few leaves getclipped here and there and they always seemed to heal up right away, while managing to continue it's explosive vegetative growth.

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Day 83


Well the cucumbers that were on my plant shriveled up and died, so I am now trying to use a paint brush to pollinate instead of a q-tip. I did this last night and today, and my new female flowers are already starting to wilt. I'm hoping this is a good sign

I also cleaned out my reservoir tonight. app. every 2 wks seems ok to do so. I again put in molasses and a very tiny amount of ferts.

Since putting in molasses, my roots have started to heal and grow like crazy. Also, the blooms on my flowers are much larger, and stay on my plant longer.

My foliage is also growing great!! Some of the top leaves are now a bit bigger then my hand. Like Jrogers141210 said.. these are very resistant plants

Cross your fingers pollination works this time!!!!





Large Male Flower



1 female flower right after being pollinated



Cukes





My roots

That definately looks like a healthy root system! I wonder why the cukes shriveled up and died like that? I thought once they are pollinated they are pollinated? weird. Anyways, good luck with everything, hopefully you get some sexy cukes!

Maybe since your plant is so tall, the root system cant deliver enough water to support those cukes. Id be willing to bet money if you laid the "scaffolding" down so it ran horizantilly like a cuke would naturally grow you would have more success

I was thinking more along the lines of me damaging the flower before pollination occured when I was using the q-tip. The q-tip was quite large compared to the flower, so I did have to put some extra force just to apply it to the inside of the flower.

This paintbrush is perfect size. If they shrivel up again, I'll know it's something else going wrong.

Great point about the vertical growth though! You may be on to something. Only downside is I can't more my trellis horizontal now without breaking the plant.

I guess if this doesn't work, I could always try a horizontal grow next time.

cucumber scrog. lol

You love to keep us in suspense.

I'm growing melons (cantelope, honeydew, and watermelons) and they grow very similar to cucs. I didn't build a trelis, but I have a small fence nearby I directed them to and they are all climbing up that now... All of the plants just started producing flowers about a week ago. Does anyone know if the melons grow male and female flowers?

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