Cucumber Male flowers

ViksB

This year instead of buying a F1 hybrid we bought some 39p cucumber seeds from Aldi - marketmore

Reading "The NEW Vegetable and herb expert" (Although hardly new anymore) There are two pages on Cucumbers - one growing in greenhouse and the other outdoors.
I know Marketmore is an outdoor variety, but we had considered trying to grow some inside and some outside.
The greenhouse page says "Remove all make flower from Ordinary varieties - fertilized fruit is bitter"
On the outdoor page it says
" Fertilization is essential- never remove the male flowers"
and finally on the Curcurbit troubles page it says
"The second type of bitterness is associated with misshapen club-like fruits grown under glass. Here the cause is pollination, remember that male flowers must be removed."

So can I grow Marketmore in a greenhouse and why do I need to remove the male flowers inside a greenhouse but not outdoors?

Thanks for any clarification

Rotor

I only grew the cheap cu seeds once - it was a bit of a disaster. The fruit was a little bitter ( enough to spoil it for me) and catching all the male flowers before they opened proved too difficult. You only have to miss 1 or 2
Spend the extra would be myadvice

annie123

Marketmore are an outdoor ridge cucumber and need male and female flowers for pollination.
Sow April/May time and plant out in June. When the growing tip has 6 sets of leaves, pinch it off. It will put out side shoots that will produce lots of tasty cucumbers.

TallGirl

My outdoor cucumber sown from seed were really bitter had loads on a plant though small one. Going to buy 1 plant this year and grown them in the greenhouse.

annie123

I've found that cucumbers can get bitter when they're not watered enough.
Info and explanation below;

http://www.thecarrollnews.com/pages/full_story/push?article-Master+Gardener-+What-s+that+taste+in+my+cucumber-%20&id=9545202&instance=secondary_opinion_left_column

forgotmyname

I had marketmore last year, They were great. Got tangled in a mass of tomatoes and didnt spot them for a while.

I assume the plant had got dwarfed and stranged by the tomatoes that overran the little plastic growhouse.

Just remember to brush the little spikes off. Unless your like me and pass them around and laugh when people go ouch

The spikes fall off easily though.

Blackjack_Davy

ViksB wrote: »

This year instead of buying a F1 hybrid we bought some 39p cucumber seeds from Aldi - marketmore

Reading "The NEW Vegetable and herb expert" (Although hardly new anymore) There are two pages on Cucumbers - one growing in greenhouse and the other outdoors.
I know Marketmore is an outdoor variety, but we had considered trying to grow some inside and some outside.
The greenhouse page says "Remove all make flower from Ordinary varieties - fertilized fruit is bitter"
On the outdoor page it says
" Fertilization is essential- never remove the male flowers"
and finally on the Curcurbit troubles page it says
"The second type of bitterness is associated with misshapen club-like fruits grown under glass. Here the cause is pollination, remember that male flowers must be removed."

So can I grow Marketmore in a greenhouse and why do I need to remove the male flowers inside a greenhouse but not outdoors?

Thanks for any clarification

Indoor varieties are quite separate from outdoor ones.

Outdoor varieties require pollination, indoor varieties do not.

So no, do not remove the male flowers from your outdoor variety grown indoors. In fact, you may need to pollinate them by hand if there aren't many pollinating insects inside your greenhouse.

(I've had a indoor cucumber variety pollinated once by mistake, it wasn't nice.)