If you found this video helpful, please “Like” and share to help increase its reach! Thanks for watching!😊TIMESTAMPS for convenience: 0:00 My Cucumber Plant Is Dying! 1:37 The #1 Mistake Made Growing Cucumbers 4:43 3 Tips For Incredible Cucumber Production 7:10 How To Plant Cucumbers 8:47 Adventures With Dale
Not cucumber-related, but how do you deal with the large June bugs. They’re all over our pears and a few on our beans. We are just slightly north of your county. Please advise!!
okay buddy LOL your still a baby thinking you know it all? the cucumbers,, yes you do where(you)grow them, definitely pick the cucumbers, they'll flower more and produce more, but I planted them on one side of a trellis like yours, they grew through the trellis on the other side and there's still alive(and producing very well) but from where their roots came from, from the original place where the plants were planted,, are die ,ing(and the cucumbers were picked off of them regularly!(the dying side) the crop was just to much for them to deal with producing more! oh my I grow 20-30 cucumber plants in the same space you're growing two! and I get hundreds of cucumbers
your garden is horrible at least what I see? I see some plastic greenhouse plastic? if you're going to spend money, invest in covering all your plants with greenhouse plastic! don't let the acid rain on them, or the rain,,but wash with clean culinary water,, then they won't drown either LOL! unless your soil doesn't drain or it's made of clay and you haven't added decent compost every year and during the year
If you’re a new gardener, don’t get discouraged. Keep searching till you find a solution. Great info here. I would add trellising your cucumbers on an angle to make it easier not to miss any cucumbers. Garden on fellow cultivators of the earth! 😊
@@TheMillennialGardener absolutely. We are inundated with marketmore slicers and boston pickling cucumbers because my boyfriend finally believed me when I told him we MUST PICK EVERY CUCUMBER before they turn yellow.
I had to replace my cucumber plant to after harvesting 4 cucumbers. The leaves got very brittle and Powder mildew so I had to remove and replace with new ones.
You are so right! I didn’t realize this until this summer. My husband and I can never eat all of the cucumbers that I grow. Even though I give plenty away to neighbors, I always seem to miss a few on the vine. This summer, I have had some workers doing a small construction project for me. I told them that they could take whatever they wanted and bring it home to their families. They diligently check every cucumber, squash, and tomato plant before they leave, and the plants are fruiting more than ever.
I just have to say it makes me SO happy when my husband comes home w vegetables from his clients House Im not to grow vegetables this year 😢 his excitement when showing me is ❤️
I know right, but its good to understand so that we don't abuse nature too by over using the plant until it drops to exhaustion. Everything in life that is living and truly photosynthesizing light, which includes people, is a vessel of sacred life. Taking what we need but not being greedy by getting the plant to over produce when we don't really need it, and allowing it to at least have one fruit that goes to seed so that it can leave something behind and from that fruit we can grow more fruit. Anyways, that's how I think of it.
I gotta be honest, I came to the comments when I started watching to find out the advice because so often these videos have so much filler, but didn't have any more time than to get to your comment because I heard him giving the advice. Right on ! Subbed
@@dearvictoria4716 I liked the video and commented such, not sure if your attempting to convince me otherwise but I would have posted that if I felt fit. I'm sorry you had problems with this creators video but that might be best to address to him not me. Have a good day
Thanks for showing how you pull out the entire root and can reuse the same planter if the plant died naturally. It’s the little things like that which help us newbies.
All my gardening life I thought I was a cucumber failure. So much so that I stopped trying to grow them. You sir are doing the Lord’s work. New subscriber here!
Eureka ... you cracked the code!!!! I am an old lady -- granddaughter of farmers -- and everything I plant inside or outside the house absolutely thrives ... except the cucumbers after we've been on a short vacation, or when I've overlooked a cucumber hidden behind the foliage. Thank you for this invaluable information. I plant "Summer Dance" cukes, and they are never bitter. Sweet and crisp. Thank you so very much.
5 year gardener here, and I just learned something today!! Thank you for sharing this simple yet so important tip. New subscribers as well! Happy gardening!
OH MY!!! That's exactly what happened to my cucumbers last year!!! The year before I had a wonderful harvest!! Last year I was so busy and did cut off yellow cucumbers and I recall being so upset that regardless of what I was doing, my plants were dying!! 🙏 Thank you SOOO much for this information ❤️
I tend to start new cukes every six to eight weeks anyway because they get so big and unruly and sometimes yellow. Though that could be my fault for neglecting them a bit much 😅😅
I just started growing cucumbers this year and have watched countless videos. I feel like I got more out of this one video than all others. Bravo 👏 great video! Thanks 😊
Right after I watched this video, I went outside and was working in the garden - and I found three HUGE cucumbers! They weren’t yellow yet, so hopefully I got them in time! Thanks for the tip!
@@TheMillennialGardener I find mine stopped flowering, but it may have been because a few went yellow, also trying to run them too long, you are awesome dude keep going
@@TheMillennialGardener I love both your channels. Growing my first cuke plants this year and am so very thankful for your advice! I have earthboxes I am growing in from like 30 years ago. What brand are those black pots you are using to grow in?
This is my first time of growing them in Kent UK. And I have found 1 is growing today,but having to grow in greenhouse coz of the weather here,not really like you get in hot climates...well not usually lol.
@@triciac1019 good to know. Thank you! The info from this video helped me so much. Here it is Oct 23.. The time of year when my plants normally would have been dead a couple months.. Are still producing. I just pulled 2 off this past weekend.
My first ever cucumber plant has produced many cucumbers over the last 3 months. Unfortunately it's now dying, and now I understand why, as I missed one of the cucumber which started to turn yellow. I have learned so much from your video, thank you.
...maybe some lucky soul will end up with a mutation that causes blue or purple fruits - like happened with green beans. If you get that variety, it is super easy to find the fruits.
Craziest thing I ever heard of. How do they even get cucumbers to grow. I just found this out and now mine will die. I'm planted two so I'll watch the other one.
getting older, with older eyes, I've decided to only grow white cucumbers 🙂 Lemon Cukes, Dragon's Egg cukes and silver Slicers. I grew the first two last couple of years and didn't miss any, now going to go for the white slicers as well. Green ones are just too sneaky.
Oh wow crazy! I just moved out of Johnston County three years ago. I moved there in 2006 but by 2016 it was being so overbuilt I couldn’t take it anymore. But it looks like you’ve been there so long you’re fully aware of all the changes!
Wow! That was great! Have been gardening for years; had no idea. The other day, before I saw this video, I went to a local farmer's market, where I bought a very large cucumber with a yellowish tinge. It tasted great, but I wanted to go back and tell the vendor that her cucumber plant is soon going to die off! Amazing tip! Thank you!
Thank you!!!! I have been trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong and you are the only person to finally give me an answer! This makes so much sense! This information will help me to NOT make this mistake again. You are awesome!
Perfect timing with this... After decades I just put some in in a self watering 5 gal bucket with trellis on rollers out on the deck today. Years back I was thinking the sun intensity was killing them and planned to push it over 6 feet under the house overhang as needed but didn’t know about this never letting them ripen on the plant biz… You’ve likely just turned a failure into success, thank you.
I have never heard this before. As a beginner Gardener I am very thankful to have come across this information. I feel like I can use this information for other plants as well. Thank you again 💚🙏💚
..same. Parents had gardens when I was young, but then quit doing it I guess because food became cheap and it's a lot of work. So I never really learned anything from them about gardening. The funny thing is, they've started gardening again late in life, and now so have I, but we're learning together because they forgot most of what they knew.
Damn... :/ that's just really sad. Heck, I've really gotten into gardening and all sorts of other horticulture and I'm always happy to share what knowledge I've picked up with anyone and everyone that's curious. Can't imagine a parent not sharing their knowledge with their own child.
Well, you just solved a mystery for me-I am in the process of moving to a new homestead. Decided to let some of my plants-ones I knew I could not move, produce the full grown fruit-wanted the seeds. That's what happened with my Cukes. One day I see it dying, water and tend and now...all deadish. I let the Cukes go yellow for the seeds so, answers that mystery but it is fine-can't take the plants with me anyway.
Great video and so to the point, I have made the same mistake every year. Yellow cucumber taste awful , but keep in mind that if you want seeds then leave some cucumbers to mature so you have new seeds for the next season.
Great video! Never realized this before. I also like how you just get a couple plants going at a time rather than over planting more than you need. Thanks, central IN.
Cucumber plants have two speeds: too many and none! I find staggering plantings fix that problem. Too many folks plant everything in April and then stop, and many plants don't go the distance. Spacing out your transplants not only lead to longer harvests, but you don't get overwhelming harvests in the beginning.
@@TheMillennialGardener honestly, that's me.... I never considered planting more in July, but will since my first possible frost in St Louis is October 16. I'm ready for round 2!! 😊 I just never was introduced to the idea of second plantings!!
Interesting. I found an overripe cucumber on one of my plants that was just about orange. I took it off and the plant continued growing and is still healthy and produces like crazy.
@@wsad1337 I'm in Zone 5b. I have had that experience with multiple varieties. Right now I am growing Wisconsin SMR. And ironically I just found another huge yellow cuke that I missed. And the plant is still healthy and loaded with baby cukes.
@@compostfanatic Easy, now. You might be being a bit harsh. It could be a combination of what he says AND the harshness of his environment. That said, I've never had that issue and my cuc's last quite a lot longer and grow so lush that I frequently miss "ripe" cucumbers. This over a long period of years and many different varieties. But I'm in 8b. Edit: Something strange, here. I just checked hardiness zones and it looks like he's in 8a. Wonder what he's using for his growth medium...? Or what his water is like. One big difference is that I plant my cucumbers close together, allowing them to fully shade their roots. It could be that simple.
Well done, lad. I started trying a few things with other plants to increase yield. With peppers, I would trim after the second nodes to increase branching, and flowers. Then, I would knock off the first round of buds when they appear. Then it's a matter of timing, and not allowing any color change while the fruit is still on the plant to extend viability later in the season. Nice video!
Another great video. You have just explained what happened to 3 of my cucumber plants. I had no idea and this is the first summer I’ve grown cucumbers and have been so disappointed. Now I know 👍. Thanks
Me too. The few cucumbers I have gotten have yellowed. I thought perhaps the plant roots were receiving to much water. Guess I need to pick after a day or two after they get bigger than a golf ball 🤔 growing pickling cucumbers so they aren't getting very big
You are a incredibly knowledgeable gardener. I learn so much from you, I can’t even begin to describe how much confidence Ihave developed in gardening just watching your videos. You are doing great community service. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏
Perfect timing. I grew cucumbers for the first time last year. Glad I saw this before my plants started producing this year. Hopefully, I will make less mistakes this time.
The plant dying back after it goes to seed is the way with green beans and many other veggies. The whole purpose of any plant is to procreate, the more they are picked, ( in nature that would be predation) the more they bear out. I think my mistake is getting very gung ho, in the spring, and plant wayyy too many! But cucumbers are sneaky! LOL I always miss one or two in the heat of summer gardening. I learned this from years of gardening many years ago, wish there had been a you tube vid then! lol
I live in Northern Indiana. I planted 3 separate plants and so far 2 out 3 are still producing. I think one of them I missed one and it's now done. Great advice. Thanks!
Interesting, never heard this explanation before. For years I have always succession planted cukes from seedlings from Mid May through July. Do the same with summer squash and zucchini. We tend to pick everything on the smaller side and always assumed that the plants had completed their cycle after about 12 weeks. The second and third plantings are more productive than the previous ones when they mature and the previous are winding down. Will have to experiment with your theory next season.
I've had zucchini grow until the end of season many times., fruiting away although it slows down as it gets colder. Successive fertilizing keeping them picked, etc. i do think that this video is somewhat accurate but i think the creator has more of a problem with cucumber die off than just ripen fruit, but, who can be sure?
I live in Charlotte and my cucumber plants are still going, too. This has been strange growing season as mine are usually dead by now. The other strange thing this year is that the cucumber plants have been blooming like crazy but I've not gotten that much fruit from them. For as much as they have been blooming, I usually have a ton of cucumbers. So much so that I'm usually giving a bunch away.
Hi Mavis. I'm in Charlotte too. Might I suggest you give the Asian veggie variations a go. I go to Gmart and get their cucumber and squash seedlings. They are prolific producers and highly disease and pest tolerant 😁
WOW ! I have not heard this info on any other channel ! Thank you so much ! Explains why my cucumbers always died and never produced much. Thanks again !!
Wow, I never would have even considered this. What a useful video! I'll be sure to check out your other videos, I'm starting my first vegetable garden this spring and don't want to put in all this effort just for my plants to die without a good harvest!
THANK YOU VERY MUCH! I am wondering since beggining gardening why I have such bad luck with cucumbers. Now I know 😃! I whatched a lot of videos and no one mentioned this mistake, that I was clearly making. Thanks a lot 🎉
Wow!! I thought I was just lousy at growing cucumbers gif very long!😂 Good to know, I’m definitely going to heed this advice and also secession plant ! My main garden is out back on west side… going to try some on east side too and see how they turn out.
I saw your video last year and followed your info. I was amazed how well they produced! I canned tons of pickles and shared fresh cucumbers with friends. Shared your video with all of my gardening friends!! Thank you so much!
Great video I would've never thought about that but is true with all plants when they think the job is done and go to seed. I will be more vigilant. Thank you again. I'm putting in succession plants this weekend😊
Outstanding! One of my goals is to change mindsets on planting schedules. Instead of planting your entire garden right away in the spring, space them out. You'll get more consistent harvests longer instead of the boom-and-bust cycles most gardeners get.
I have some decent sized ones now thats producing nicely. Here soon, i am gonna start more seeds to be planted out in a month about and ill still have around 3.5 months until my first frost where im at. Great info, thanks so much for the video!
Thank you! Timely video as I just took out my dying cucumber plant & discovered a fully ripe cucumber that I missed. I had wondered why the plant was dying (as compared to last year's planting) and your video explained it.
You speak the truth. I always pick every cucumber I can find, every day. Sometimes a couple of bushels a day. I search the plants high and low to try and get every one of them.
Interesting! This is exactly what happened to my pickling cucumber plant. I wanted to save seeds from the plant and after I let it create an large orange cucumber the plant died back after picking.
Unfortunately, that'll happen. Cucumber plants don't have a long lifespan as-is, and it is generally a bad plan to try and stretch one plant all season. If you want to collect seed, I recommend starting a second planting of younger cucumber plants and once the new plants start producing and the old plants look "tired," you can let the cucumbers on the old plants ripen for seed collection purposes. That way, you can take the mature seed and rip out the old plants and you have your new plants producing.
Very informative. Thank you! Here where I live in Denmark we have ONE cucumber season. We usually say that June 5 is the day to plant our cucumber plants in the green house. I have been a bit of a dare devil this year and planted mine in a south/west corner of the patio up against the house hoping it wont get too cold....
This is a great video! It’s to the point, and covered every question I had, regarding cucumber harvesting, especially at this time of year. Thanks, Millennial Gardner! 🥒 👍
I planted 3 cucumber "hills" back in March, I still have all 3 and I did pick, what is the last of the cucumbers today. I have gotten plenty of cucumbers this year, I'm well pleased. I did spray the leaves a few times with (baking soda and peroxide) and a few "Top Dressings" with water & milk and 1 top dressing of yeast diluted in water + the usual water soluble fertilizers.........but yeah 4 full months of cucumber production! And lots of give-outs to neighbors and church friends. I will do the same next year is the plan. But my 2 zucchini plants did even better!
Oh wow I wondered why my cucumber plants were dying so fast! Excellent information! You didn’t drag the answer and explained it so well and great examples! You just got me to hooked on your channel! I’m subscribed!
Aside from the mature fruit thing(which is also why green bell peppers are cheaper), I am seeing severe nutrient deficiency (Without closer inspection and testing). Like potassium, maybe sulfur too. The thin-fat-thin fruits indicate poor pollination, which could be a number of factors from bees to boron. You probably don't need bone meal with the 5-5-5. In potting mix go for something more like a 3-2-4 or 3-2-5 ratio and give them a little extra every 3 weeks starting when they have a few full size leaves and begin to vine. (Hydroponic formulas for cucumbers have a lot of K, more than either tomato or capsicum formulas which also favor K.) Regular dirt with clay, tends to hold moderate potassium reserves so the 5-5-5 would be more appropriate. Also many sources of compost tend to be high in potassium if they were made from high carbon material, but ymmv.
Great video and I look forward to trying these tips this year, I live in the piedmont of NC myself. I had one question unrelated to the cucumbers, is that black plastic you have down around your beds or black rubber to walk on and keep the weeds and grass down? I have heard from others that using black plastic will attract snakes to get in and under the walkways. Any thoughts? Thanks for all your videos!
I found your video very helpful. I lived in southeastern NC for 16 years. I moved a little North about 80 miles. Near Mt Olive. I’m a new gardener so I’ll be a recent visitor lol. Hope you won’t tired of me bugging you.
OMG thanks so much!! Last year my cucumber plants where so beautiful and then at some point they all died.. and that is exactly what happened. Wow now I understand, I’m so grateful thanks I extremely appreciate.
Nice video man. Earned an instant subscribe. It's crazy because the first year I ever had a garden I had the most amazing cucumber plant ever. The fruit were huge and tasted great. The next year I decided to not pick as many of them and we went on vacation and I came back and they were dead. I was so mad but now I see why!
Excellent advice. BTW the white spots/dried up dead spots on the leaves of those first two cucumbers looks like damage from thrips. Examine the underside of the leaf and you will be able to see them hiding along the leaf veins.
i didn't realize this abouy cucumbers and it makes so much sence. i make this mistake every single year! i never knew what i was doing wrong......thank you SO much!!!!!
Sounds great, thanks MG! We just planted a bunch more cucumber seeds today and some blacktail mountain watermelon. We shouldn’t get a frost till end of October so we should be good and I’ll keep this in mind!
So if you want to be able to collect seed for next year, how long does it take a cucumber to fully mature? I'm trying to figure out the timing so there would be enough time for a few to fully mature before frost hits. Thanks for the video!
Where I live I can't plant out until the end of May and we get a frost early in October. I'm not sure I can get 2 succession plantings. But I will try next year. I get so much from. your videos. You are my first go to for gardening info.
Thank you! That's awesome that nature use the ressources efficient. One ripe seed and that's it. And yes, it happend to me my very first garden year 2022. They had mildew but this was not the reason that they died. I had alot cucumbers and 3 got a bit yellow. That's what killed them. That was a good lesson so thank you again! I'll grow now 2 more and will pay more attention to them.
This certainly doesn't apply in the UK. My plants always make it the whole season. I sow in early April and harvest until October every year without fail. Bitter fruits is the only issue I've had in 15 years of growing them. It's quite hot and humid in my polytunnel, so guess it must just be the sun where you are. /shrug
I have about 15 female flowers and no male flowers. Why would it do that and is there anything I can do to change that or should I not even be worried at this point? The vine is still pretty small.
Very helpful! I had cucumbers going to sleep having started a garden for the first time this year. However I recently pruned due to what appeared to be a fungus. And now my cucumbers appear to be dying off. But may just be at the end of its lifecycle considering it's been 90 days. And I had a few that had over-ripened and were yellowing. Definitely intend to plant some more.
I thank you. First year for pickling cukes and I have 4 plants just starting out in Northeast. Now I know how to get them to produce, and it’s nice that you shared your tips.
If you found this video helpful, please “Like” and share to help increase its reach! Thanks for watching!😊TIMESTAMPS for convenience:
0:00 My Cucumber Plant Is Dying!
1:37 The #1 Mistake Made Growing Cucumbers
4:43 3 Tips For Incredible Cucumber Production
7:10 How To Plant Cucumbers
8:47 Adventures With Dale
Not cucumber-related, but how do you deal with the large June bugs. They’re all over our pears and a few on our beans. We are just slightly north of your county. Please advise!!
What’s your opinion of bt for pests?
@@casual454t1 definitely another great source for gardening info ♥️
okay buddy LOL your still a baby thinking you know it all? the cucumbers,, yes you do where(you)grow them, definitely pick the cucumbers, they'll flower more and produce more, but I planted them on one side of a trellis like yours, they grew through the trellis on the other side and there's still alive(and producing very well) but from where their roots came from, from the original place where the plants were planted,, are die ,ing(and the cucumbers were picked off of them regularly!(the dying side) the crop was just to much for them to deal with producing more! oh my I grow 20-30 cucumber plants in the same space you're growing two! and I get hundreds of cucumbers
your garden is horrible at least what I see? I see some plastic greenhouse plastic? if you're going to spend money, invest in covering all your plants with greenhouse plastic! don't let the acid rain on them, or the rain,,but wash with clean culinary water,, then they won't drown either LOL! unless your soil doesn't drain or it's made of clay and you haven't added decent compost every year and during the year
I've never seen a gardener anthropomorphize cucumbers before, but you made your point!
Well done!
Me either!!!
Now you know plants have feelings too....Loved this..
I had no idea that cucumbers suffered from such anxiety! 🤣
Great video!
Some plants thrive on neglect. Not cucumbers! They love attention. The more time you spend hunting for fruit, the more you'll be rewarded.
Almost everyone has anxiety nowadays...even the cukes. 😂
We should be glad they dont own guns
My cucumber saw the shrink every week last year. Anxiety and panic cured
Biden's fault
If you’re a new gardener, don’t get discouraged. Keep searching till you find a solution. Great info here. I would add trellising your cucumbers on an angle to make it easier not to miss any cucumbers. Garden on fellow cultivators of the earth! 😊
I brought mine back by taking it to a tony robbins seminar. It decided to keep living to become an artist.
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😅🤣😂 But, did she donate money??😂
It was pledged, same exact thing. -Amber Heard @@christy032866
This man never wastes our time! He moves.... He shines! Very useful info.
Thank you! I really appreciate that.
Fabulous video. So informative. I'll definitely get more than 3 cucumbers this year after watching this 😀
Well, almost… “this mistake” had me on edge for two minutes, a long time nowadays
I noticed that just before reading your post, straight to the point.
I'm constantly telling my friends about him!
I had no idea cucumbers were that existential. I was wondering what was going on with my cucumber plants. Great advice! Subscribed!
Hahahahaha 🤣🤣🤣🤣🌱🌿🪴
Some plants thrive on neglect. Not cucumbers. They love constant attention. The more you pick, the more you get. Thank you for subscribing!
@@TheMillennialGardener absolutely. We are inundated with marketmore slicers and boston pickling cucumbers because my boyfriend finally believed me when I told him we MUST PICK EVERY CUCUMBER before they turn yellow.
I'm thinking it might be time to have an intervention with my cucumber plant and take it to counseling. There's more to life than cucumber seeds
I had to replace my cucumber plant to after harvesting 4 cucumbers.
The leaves got very brittle and Powder mildew so I had to remove and replace with new ones.
You are so right! I didn’t realize this until this summer. My husband and I can never eat all of the cucumbers that I grow. Even though I give plenty away to neighbors, I always seem to miss a few on the vine. This summer, I have had some workers doing a small construction project for me. I told them that they could take whatever they wanted and bring it home to their families. They diligently check every cucumber, squash, and tomato plant before they leave, and the plants are fruiting more than ever.
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Make relish.
I wish you were one of my customers. Fresh vegetables as a tip is a win if you ask me.
I just have to say it makes me SO happy when my husband comes home w vegetables from his clients House Im not to grow vegetables this year 😢 his excitement when showing me is ❤️
Dehydrate them thinly sliced with some lime salt, better than potato chips
I didn’t expect to get so emotional. I just wanted some cheerful gardening tips.
I know right, but its good to understand so that we don't abuse nature too by over using the plant until it drops to exhaustion. Everything in life that is living and truly photosynthesizing light, which includes people, is a vessel of sacred life. Taking what we need but not being greedy by getting the plant to over produce when we don't really need it, and allowing it to at least have one fruit that goes to seed so that it can leave something behind and from that fruit we can grow more fruit. Anyways, that's how I think of it.
"it no longer has a reason to live". So true, direct, and brutal. Youre mu fave gardening youtuber, keepnup the great work!
The mistake is letting cucumbers stay on the vine after they’re ready to harvest.
😂sounds like letting your adult kids stay in your house!!😂🤣😅
That's what he just said
I missed that part lol
@@carollund8251She kindly wrote the answer in case people want to know without having to watch the video.
That just shows these Guy doesn't need food like if he lived in Africa
I love the way you get right to the meat of the issue. No unnecessary info. Only facts. Thank you!
I gotta be honest, I came to the comments when I started watching to find out the advice because so often these videos have so much filler, but didn't have any more time than to get to your comment because I heard him giving the advice. Right on ! Subbed
@@graftedbranchhomesteadbut then he repeated the same info over and over for 8 minutes and then planted a seedling.
@@dearvictoria4716 I liked the video and commented such, not sure if your attempting to convince me otherwise but I would have posted that if I felt fit. I'm sorry you had problems with this creators video but that might be best to address to him not me. Have a good day
Plant cucumbers every 90 days? LOL that's just about all the growing time we have in the far north.
Yes, here in northern wisconsin we are lucky to get 90 sunny days.
Right same here in northern Pa
Ditto in Massachusetts.
Chuckling from North Pole, Alaska.
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Thanks for showing how you pull out the entire root and can reuse the same planter if the plant died naturally. It’s the little things like that which help us newbies.
All my gardening life I thought I was a cucumber failure. So much so that I stopped trying to grow them. You sir are doing the Lord’s work. New subscriber here!
Me too!!
Same!
I feel so hopeful now, lol!!
Seriously.
Same!! I decided to try again this year, def trying this method!
Same in RI
Eureka ... you cracked the code!!!! I am an old lady -- granddaughter of farmers -- and everything I plant inside or outside the house absolutely thrives ... except the cucumbers after we've been on a short vacation, or when I've overlooked a cucumber hidden behind the foliage. Thank you for this invaluable information. I plant "Summer Dance" cukes, and they are never bitter. Sweet and crisp. Thank you so very much.
5 year gardener here, and I just learned something today!! Thank you for sharing this simple yet so important tip. New subscribers as well! Happy gardening!
OH MY!!! That's exactly what happened to my cucumbers last year!!! The year before I had a wonderful harvest!! Last year I was so busy and did cut off yellow cucumbers and I recall being so upset that regardless of what I was doing, my plants were dying!! 🙏 Thank you SOOO much for this information ❤️
I tend to start new cukes every six to eight weeks anyway because they get so big and unruly and sometimes yellow. Though that could be my fault for neglecting them a bit much 😅😅
We forgot one and when we tore up the original cucumber plant to compost it, we ended up with a cucumber plant in the compost bin next year.
What do you feed cucumbers to get the most yield? Organically
I love how to the point this video was, not filled with useless jabbering. I appreciate it! Ive learned a lot, thanks so much!
I now understand why my cucumber plant is dying. Thanks for the info.
You learn something new every day. Been growing my own veg for over 40 years & I never knew that.
Tho I have never let my cucumbers get too large
I just started growing cucumbers this year and have watched countless videos. I feel like I got more out of this one video than all others. Bravo 👏 great video! Thanks 😊
Right after I watched this video, I went outside and was working in the garden - and I found three HUGE cucumbers! They weren’t yellow yet, so hopefully I got them in time! Thanks for the tip!
That is a really helpful piece of advice for a first time cucumber grower, thank you from Devon UK
You're welcome! Thanks for watching!
@@TheMillennialGardener I find mine stopped flowering, but it may have been because a few went yellow, also trying to run them too long, you are awesome dude keep going
@@TheMillennialGardener I love both your channels. Growing my first cuke plants this year and am so very thankful for your advice! I have earthboxes I am growing in from like 30 years ago. What brand are those black pots you are using to grow in?
This is my first time of growing them in Kent UK. And I have found 1 is growing today,but having to grow in greenhouse coz of the weather here,not really like you get in hot climates...well not usually lol.
Oh my gosh... I had no idea! I always ripened on the vine and got mad when the plant died off so quickly. Thank you so much for this tip!!!
You do ripen them on the vine, but you don't let them get yellow at all.
@@triciac1019 good to know. Thank you! The info from this video helped me so much. Here it is Oct 23.. The time of year when my plants normally would have been dead a couple months.. Are still producing. I just pulled 2 off this past weekend.
This happened to us this year😢 Last year, we had a great harvest throughout the summer😅. We were wondering why and now we know! Thank you very much!
My first ever cucumber plant has produced many cucumbers over the last 3 months. Unfortunately it's now dying, and now I understand why, as I missed one of the cucumber which started to turn yellow. I have learned so much from your video, thank you.
...maybe some lucky soul will end up with a mutation that causes blue or purple fruits - like happened with green beans. If you get that variety, it is super easy to find the fruits.
Craziest thing I ever heard of. How do they even get cucumbers to grow. I just found this out and now mine will die. I'm planted two so I'll watch the other one.
So appreciate the visual examples! Now I know this is exactly why my cucumbers die off too soon, there’s always that one cucumber I miss!
getting older, with older eyes, I've decided to only grow white cucumbers 🙂 Lemon Cukes, Dragon's Egg cukes and silver Slicers. I grew the first two last couple of years and didn't miss any, now going to go for the white slicers as well. Green ones are just too sneaky.
It’s easy to miss them.😊 only takes a handful of days to get huge.
THANKS!!!!!!! This has answered a question I’ve been struggling with for 40+ years in Johnston County, NC!!! Subscribed.
Oh wow crazy! I just moved out of Johnston County three years ago. I moved there in 2006 but by 2016 it was being so overbuilt I couldn’t take it anymore. But it looks like you’ve been there so long you’re fully aware of all the changes!
One of the most informative garden RUclips channels out there thanks for all the help!
Wow! That was great! Have been gardening for years; had no idea. The other day, before I saw this video, I went to a local farmer's market, where I bought a very large cucumber with a yellowish tinge. It tasted great, but I wanted to go back and tell the vendor that her cucumber plant is soon going to die off! Amazing tip! Thank you!
Thank you!!!! I have been trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong and you are the only person to finally give me an answer! This makes so much sense! This information will help me to NOT make this mistake again. You are awesome!
This was the most helpful video I've ever seen about cucumbers. I've always been wondering what I was doing wrong.
I'm glad I could help!
Perfect timing with this... After decades I just put some in in a self watering 5 gal bucket with trellis on rollers out on the deck today. Years back I was thinking the sun intensity was killing them and planned to push it over 6 feet under the house overhang as needed but didn’t know about this never letting them ripen on the plant biz… You’ve likely just turned a failure into success, thank you.
I have never heard this before. As a beginner Gardener I am very thankful to have come across this information. I feel like I can use this information for other plants as well. Thank you again 💚🙏💚
Thank you for this video. I’m growing cucumbers for the first time this year! I know you just saved me from this error!
This is so helpful, my parents had a garden but they never taught me. Thanks for being a teacher!
You're welcome!
..same. Parents had gardens when I was young, but then quit doing it I guess because food became cheap and it's a lot of work. So I never really learned anything from them about gardening. The funny thing is, they've started gardening again late in life, and now so have I, but we're learning together because they forgot most of what they knew.
Damn... :/ that's just really sad. Heck, I've really gotten into gardening and all sorts of other horticulture and I'm always happy to share what knowledge I've picked up with anyone and everyone that's curious. Can't imagine a parent not sharing their knowledge with their own child.
I was always working in the garden with my Dad. It is much work.
Well, you just solved a mystery for me-I am in the process of moving to a new homestead. Decided to let some of my plants-ones I knew I could not move, produce the full grown fruit-wanted the seeds. That's what happened with my Cukes. One day I see it dying, water and tend and now...all deadish. I let the Cukes go yellow for the seeds so, answers that mystery but it is fine-can't take the plants with me anyway.
Amazing. I just planted cucumber seeds a few days ago. Last year they died quick, I let a lot of them grow big. Thanks.
Best advice ever! The same thing happened to my cucumber plants I missed several cucumbers that turn yellow…… and it killed the plants! Ugg!
Great video and so to the point, I have made the same mistake every year. Yellow cucumber taste awful , but keep in mind that if you want seeds then leave some cucumbers to mature so you have new seeds for the next season.
I have a burpless cucumber plant. I have one that is about 6 inches long and the bottom is a little white. Does it need to be picked now?
Great video! Never realized this before. I also like how you just get a couple plants going at a time rather than over planting more than you need. Thanks, central IN.
Cucumber plants have two speeds: too many and none! I find staggering plantings fix that problem. Too many folks plant everything in April and then stop, and many plants don't go the distance. Spacing out your transplants not only lead to longer harvests, but you don't get overwhelming harvests in the beginning.
@@TheMillennialGardener honestly, that's me.... I never considered planting more in July, but will since my first possible frost in St Louis is October 16. I'm ready for round 2!! 😊 I just never was introduced to the idea of second plantings!!
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Interesting. I found an overripe cucumber on one of my plants that was just about orange. I took it off and the plant continued growing and is still healthy and produces like crazy.
Was looking for someone with an alternative experience. Which type of cucumber are you growing and in what zone?
@@wsad1337 I'm in Zone 5b. I have had that experience with multiple varieties. Right now I am growing Wisconsin SMR. And ironically I just found another huge yellow cuke that I missed. And the plant is still healthy and loaded with baby cukes.
@@littletechgirl2 Very cool. Thanks for the info.
That is because this video is wrong. Beware. There is a ton of bad gardening info online.
@@compostfanatic Easy, now. You might be being a bit harsh. It could be a combination of what he says AND the harshness of his environment.
That said, I've never had that issue and my cuc's last quite a lot longer and grow so lush that I frequently miss "ripe" cucumbers. This over a long period of years and many different varieties. But I'm in 8b.
Edit: Something strange, here. I just checked hardiness zones and it looks like he's in 8a. Wonder what he's using for his growth medium...? Or what his water is like. One big difference is that I plant my cucumbers close together, allowing them to fully shade their roots. It could be that simple.
This makes perfect sense. And, you answered my questions. For instance reusing the soil, succession planting, humidity. I appreciate your channel.
Well done, lad. I started trying a few things with other plants to increase yield. With peppers, I would trim after the second nodes to increase branching, and flowers. Then, I would knock off the first round of buds when they appear. Then it's a matter of timing, and not allowing any color change while the fruit is still on the plant to extend viability later in the season. Nice video!
Another great video. You have just explained what happened to 3 of my cucumber plants. I had no idea and this is the first summer I’ve grown cucumbers and have been so disappointed. Now I know 👍. Thanks
You’re welcome! Start some new transplants. Cucumbers go from seed to fruit in 6 weeks, so don’t give up. It isn’t too late to have a good season 😊
Me too. The few cucumbers I have gotten have yellowed. I thought perhaps the plant roots were receiving to much water. Guess I need to pick after a day or two after they get bigger than a golf ball 🤔 growing pickling cucumbers so they aren't getting very big
You are a incredibly knowledgeable gardener. I learn so much from you, I can’t even begin to describe how much confidence Ihave developed in gardening just watching your videos. You are doing great community service. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏
That's outstanding! That's why I do this - I want as many people to grow food, no matter how big or how small. Hearing that makes it all worth it!
Agree
I thought my cucumbers were turning yellow BEFORE they turned green😮😊
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The variety I grew this year were yellow. What you are describing happened to me, but I didn't know when they were done growing. So frustrating.
Perfect timing. I grew cucumbers for the first time last year. Glad I saw this before my plants started producing this year. Hopefully, I will make less mistakes this time.
The plant dying back after it goes to seed is the way with green beans and many other veggies. The whole purpose of any plant is to procreate, the more they are picked, ( in nature that would be predation) the more they bear out. I think my mistake is getting very gung ho, in the spring, and plant wayyy too many! But cucumbers are sneaky! LOL I always miss one or two in the heat of summer gardening. I learned this from years of gardening many years ago, wish there had been a you tube vid then! lol
I live in Northern Indiana. I planted 3 separate plants and so far 2 out 3 are still producing. I think one of them I missed one and it's now done. Great advice. Thanks!
Interesting, never heard this explanation before. For years I have always succession planted cukes from seedlings from Mid May through July. Do the same with summer squash and zucchini. We tend to pick everything on the smaller side and always assumed that the plants had completed their cycle after about 12 weeks. The second and third plantings are more productive than the previous ones when they mature and the previous are winding down. Will have to experiment with your theory next season.
Did you experiment his theory? What are the results?
I've had zucchini grow until the end of season many times., fruiting away although it slows down as it gets colder. Successive fertilizing keeping them picked, etc. i do think that this video is somewhat accurate but i think the creator has more of a problem with cucumber die off than just ripen fruit, but, who can be sure?
I live in Charlotte and my cucumber plants are still going, too. This has been strange growing season as mine are usually dead by now. The other strange thing this year is that the cucumber plants have been blooming like crazy but I've not gotten that much fruit from them. For as much as they have been blooming, I usually have a ton of cucumbers. So much so that I'm usually giving a bunch away.
Hi Mavis. I'm in Charlotte too. Might I suggest you give the Asian veggie variations a go. I go to Gmart and get their cucumber and squash seedlings. They are prolific producers and highly disease and pest tolerant 😁
When males open, give their polen to females. This will increase the production.
Cucumbers need to be pollinated by bees. If it's too rainy, the bees might not be out and about. You have to pollinate them manually!
WOW ! I have not heard this info on any other channel ! Thank you so much ! Explains why my cucumbers always died and never produced much. Thanks again !!
Cheers. That explains why my cucumber plant dies off....I made the same mistake too. One cucumber went yellow. Thanks.
Awesome video man. Thanks for the knowledge. My cucumber plant is just starting to flower and now i know exactly what to do to keep it going strong 👌
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching!
Your channel along with Epic Gardening and Lazy Dog Farm have really been a great asset to my small gardening efforts (primarily hot peps). Thanks!
You're welcome! Travis's channel is great for me, too, since we have virtually identical climates.
@@TheMillennialGardener I'm in 9b on east central coast of FL. When August hits, I'm done! Thanks for the response👍
Love lazy dog farm too!
Wow, I never would have even considered this. What a useful video! I'll be sure to check out your other videos, I'm starting my first vegetable garden this spring and don't want to put in all this effort just for my plants to die without a good harvest!
THANK YOU VERY MUCH! I am wondering since beggining gardening why I have such bad luck with cucumbers. Now I know 😃! I whatched a lot of videos and no one mentioned this mistake, that I was clearly making. Thanks a lot 🎉
I’m in Sampson county. Nice to see another eastern NC gardener here on YT. Really helps since we’re the same planting zone.
Everything needs a purpose❤ This was extremely well-explained. Thank you. Inspiring.
Wow!! I thought I was just lousy at growing cucumbers gif very long!😂
Good to know, I’m definitely going to heed this advice and also secession plant ! My main garden is out back on west side… going to try some on east side too and see how they turn out.
Thank you for this video! I was wondering what happened to my cucumbers this year and I think you just told me!
I saw your video last year and followed your info. I was amazed how well they produced! I canned tons of pickles and shared fresh cucumbers with friends. Shared your video with all of my gardening friends!! Thank you so much!
I feel so bad for my cucumber plants now! However, this video explains a lot. I will definitely be more prudent in checking my plants this year!
Great video I would've never thought about that but is true with all plants when they think the job is done and go to seed. I will be more vigilant. Thank you again. I'm putting in succession plants this weekend😊
Outstanding! One of my goals is to change mindsets on planting schedules. Instead of planting your entire garden right away in the spring, space them out. You'll get more consistent harvests longer instead of the boom-and-bust cycles most gardeners get.
I have some decent sized ones now thats producing nicely. Here soon, i am gonna start more seeds to be planted out in a month about and ill still have around 3.5 months until my first frost where im at. Great info, thanks so much for the video!
Thank you! Timely video as I just took out my dying cucumber plant & discovered a fully ripe cucumber that I missed. I had wondered why the plant was dying (as compared to last year's planting) and your video explained it.
You can take out the seeds from the fully ripe cucumbers and dry them out and replant them next year.
You speak the truth. I always pick every cucumber I can find, every day. Sometimes a couple of bushels a day.
I search the plants high and low to try and get every one of them.
Wow! I have a horrible time with my cucumber plants and now I know why. Thank you so very much for your wisdom. There is hope for me yet.😊
Great info for a new gardener! We love pickles at my house so this will definitely help with a large harvest. Thank you!!
You're welcome!
Interesting! This is exactly what happened to my pickling cucumber plant. I wanted to save seeds from the plant and after I let it create an large orange cucumber the plant died back after picking.
Unfortunately, that'll happen. Cucumber plants don't have a long lifespan as-is, and it is generally a bad plan to try and stretch one plant all season. If you want to collect seed, I recommend starting a second planting of younger cucumber plants and once the new plants start producing and the old plants look "tired," you can let the cucumbers on the old plants ripen for seed collection purposes. That way, you can take the mature seed and rip out the old plants and you have your new plants producing.
50 years of gardening, never knew this...amazing!!!
I'm glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching!
Very informative. Thank you! Here where I live in Denmark we have ONE cucumber season. We usually say that June 5 is the day to plant our cucumber plants in the green house. I have been a bit of a dare devil this year and planted mine in a south/west corner of the patio up against the house hoping it wont get too cold....
Excellent advice, as always. I’m glad I watched this before planting my seeds!
This is a great video!
It’s to the point, and covered every question I had, regarding cucumber harvesting, especially at this time of year.
Thanks, Millennial Gardner! 🥒 👍
I planted 3 cucumber "hills" back in March, I still have all 3 and I did pick, what is the last of the cucumbers today. I have gotten plenty of cucumbers this year, I'm well pleased. I did spray the leaves a few times with (baking soda and peroxide) and a few "Top Dressings" with water & milk and 1 top dressing of yeast diluted in water + the usual water soluble fertilizers.........but yeah 4 full months of cucumber production! And lots of give-outs to neighbors and church friends. I will do the same next year is the plan. But my 2 zucchini plants did even better!
Thanks for this! Really helpful as it exactly shows me what my mistakes were this year.
OMG this must be why my plants die off so early! I always seem to overlook 1 or 2 cucumbers! Thank you for this video!!!!!
Oh wow I wondered why my cucumber plants were dying so fast! Excellent information! You didn’t drag the answer and explained it so well and great examples! You just got me to hooked on your channel! I’m subscribed!
Aside from the mature fruit thing(which is also why green bell peppers are cheaper), I am seeing severe nutrient deficiency (Without closer inspection and testing). Like potassium, maybe sulfur too. The thin-fat-thin fruits indicate poor pollination, which could be a number of factors from bees to boron. You probably don't need bone meal with the 5-5-5. In potting mix go for something more like a 3-2-4 or 3-2-5 ratio and give them a little extra every 3 weeks starting when they have a few full size leaves and begin to vine. (Hydroponic formulas for cucumbers have a lot of K, more than either tomato or capsicum formulas which also favor K.)
Regular dirt with clay, tends to hold moderate potassium reserves so the 5-5-5 would be more appropriate. Also many sources of compost tend to be high in potassium if they were made from high carbon material, but ymmv.
Agree. I never had a cuke die because of ripened fruit.
Great video and I look forward to trying these tips this year, I live in the piedmont of NC myself. I had one question unrelated to the cucumbers, is that black plastic you have down around your beds or black rubber to walk on and keep the weeds and grass down? I have heard from others that using black plastic will attract snakes to get in and under the walkways. Any thoughts? Thanks for all your videos!
You provide such helpful content on your channel!
Does this apply to other veggies too or just to cucumbers?
I found your video very helpful. I lived in southeastern NC for 16 years. I moved a little North about 80 miles. Near Mt Olive. I’m a new gardener so I’ll be a recent visitor lol. Hope you won’t tired of me bugging you.
OMG thanks so much!! Last year my cucumber plants where so beautiful and then at some point they all died.. and that is exactly what happened. Wow now I understand, I’m so grateful thanks I extremely appreciate.
Well, this explains the problems I've always had with cucumbers! Thank you!
Nice video man. Earned an instant subscribe. It's crazy because the first year I ever had a garden I had the most amazing cucumber plant ever. The fruit were huge and tasted great. The next year I decided to not pick as many of them and we went on vacation and I came back and they were dead. I was so mad but now I see why!
Excellent advice. BTW the white spots/dried up dead spots on the leaves of those first two cucumbers looks like damage from thrips. Examine the underside of the leaf and you will be able to see them hiding along the leaf veins.
i didn't realize this abouy cucumbers and it makes so much sence. i make this mistake every single year! i never knew what i was doing wrong......thank you SO much!!!!!
Excellent video as usual. I didn’t know this about cucumbers. Does the same hold for watermelons and cantaloupes ?
Sounds great, thanks MG! We just planted a bunch more cucumber seeds today and some blacktail mountain watermelon. We shouldn’t get a frost till end of October so we should be good and I’ll keep this in mind!
Does this only apply to cucumber plants or would it also apply to squash and zucchini plants?
Same same. All vegetable plants. Save the seed!
So if you want to be able to collect seed for next year, how long does it take a cucumber to fully mature? I'm trying to figure out the timing so there would be enough time for a few to fully mature before frost hits. Thanks for the video!
Perhaps you can leave the last 2-3 cukes of the season to fully mature (ending the plant with it)
Where I live I can't plant out until the end of May and we get a frost early in October. I'm not sure I can get 2 succession plantings. But I will try next year. I get so much from. your videos. You are my first go to for gardening info.
Love the way he speaks for the plant!
Thank you! That's awesome that nature use the ressources efficient. One ripe seed and that's it. And yes, it happend to me my very first garden year 2022. They had mildew but this was not the reason that they died. I had alot cucumbers and 3 got a bit yellow. That's what killed them. That was a good lesson so thank you again! I'll grow now 2 more and will pay more attention to them.
This certainly doesn't apply in the UK. My plants always make it the whole season. I sow in early April and harvest until October every year without fail. Bitter fruits is the only issue I've had in 15 years of growing them. It's quite hot and humid in my polytunnel, so guess it must just be the sun where you are. /shrug
Agreed, though I grow them outside here, they never fail, are always sweet and flavoursome and always produce vastly more than I can ever eat.
I have about 15 female flowers and no male flowers. Why would it do that and is there anything I can do to change that or should I not even be worried at this point? The vine is still pretty small.
Is that the only cuke plant u have cause maybe u need a few more plants 🥒
Not enough sun or to early my early plants put out a bunch of females then males.
Very helpful! I had cucumbers going to sleep having started a garden for the first time this year. However I recently pruned due to what appeared to be a fungus. And now my cucumbers appear to be dying off. But may just be at the end of its lifecycle considering it's been 90 days. And I had a few that had over-ripened and were yellowing. Definitely intend to plant some more.
I thank you. First year for pickling cukes and I have 4 plants just starting out in Northeast. Now I know how to get them to produce, and it’s nice that you shared your tips.