This guide explains how to grow cucumbers, including how to grow cucumbers from seed, when to plant and a trick to produce ...

Early in the season, most cucumber varieties grow quickly with fruit often doubling in size within a few days. Growth will also wane as colder nights and days with less sunlight have an effect on ...

Plant outdoor cucumbers in early summer ... Many varieties have both male and female flowers on the same plants. Both should be left on outdoor varieties, but pinch off the male flowers when ...

For every female flower grown on a monoecious cucumber plant, 10 to 20 male flowers will grow. If pollination doesn't occur, the female flower will off the plant and the cucumber fruit will not grow.

Outdoor cucumbers usually finishing cropping in September, but indoor plants carry on until early October. Cucumbers can become bitter on varieties that produce both male and female flowers when ...

Cucumbers are in season from May to October, but are available year-round. Look for firm, vibrantly green fruit without wrinkles. Smaller ridged cucumbers differ little in taste to the more common ...

Researchers have achieved a groundbreaking advancement in plant biotechnology by using a magnetofected pollen gene delivery system to genetically transform cucumbers. This cutting-edge method uses ...

the spotted cucumber beetle and the striped cucumber beetle, with the striped species being the most common. Both species prefer plants in the cucurbit family of plants that includes cucumbers ...

While cucumbers and tomatoes may make a great combination in a sandwich, they don't store well together. According to research by PlumbNation, tomatoes release ethylene gas, a natural plant ...

Senior Editor: Jun Lyu, PhD, Springer Nature, China. Before joining Nature Plants in 2014, Jun received his PhD from the Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he studied ...