The Brutal Truth About Growing Cucumbers from Seed

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* There’s nothing more refreshing than a fresh, crisp cucumber from the garden. In this video, I will walk you through how to grow cucumbers all the way from seed to harvest. I also will walk you through how I manage disease, pests, and fertilization. This video has everything you ever wanted to know about growing cucumbers in your backyard garden.

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[wastenotwantnot]

Thanks so much. I always learn something of value when I watch your videos.

[MrTalkingzero]

Great video, great advice except for the very last part. DO NOT LET YOUR CUCUMBERS MATURE ON THE VINE! It will stop fruit production and the plant will yellow and die. Why? Because the purpose of the plant is to continue the species. A ripe cucumber on the vine signals the plant that the job is done and the plant dies. The only exception would be the case where you don't need the plant anymore and you want seeds.

[baneverything]

Beit Alpha doesn`t need pollinating. I just got seeds to try indoors this winter. I tried Spacemaster last winter a grew a GIANT cucumberless KUDZU vine! LOL! I`m growing in a hydro bucket because it`s way way cheaper than potting soil. I`ve given up on potting soil because of the cost and horrible results. But my new outdoor garden here has poor shallow topsoil so my first year was peas and beans to begin building soil and I added grass clippings and chopped leaves. Now I have to go into the forest here when it`s cold to get wagons of dirt and leaf mold...not easy with a disability...but I have to keep moving or my health will collapse at my age. I have a collection of the little tabletop hydro growers too and just got two new 12 pod ones to grow the micro dwarf tomatoes, Pinocchio and a few other types. I have Watercress seedlings started too. We don`t have much in Louisiana stores so if I want the fancy stuff I have to grow it. Like Arugula...I`ve never heard of it so I grow that now too.

[cherylcorbitt]

Thank you Thank you
You answered so many issues we have had. I'm encouraged to try again.

[micheleknackmuhs]

GREAT VIDEO. I learned so much. This will be the first veggie I plant. Here goes nothing.

[FallenLions]

3 inches isn't tiny :(
very informational! i am learning a lot from this and my first planting of national pickling cucumbers~,

[davidva]

Exactly the questions I had, thank you

[VJWLPN]

Great video! Very informative and educational. Sooo glad I found your channel! Thank you 🌺🌺🌺

[baneverything]

You can also grow one cucumber plant for seeds only. They say they will die if a cucumber matures but my first outdoor Spacemaster hid one from me under the grass that got huge and yellow and I harvested about 75 seeds from it and the plant came back from the dead after a few weeks and somehow survived from March until October and it caught every disease there is. I`m glad I have seeds from that one. All my others died very fast from diseases after producing about 8 cucumbers each. My Armenian cucumbers never produced but it was over 100 degrees each day from mid June until September. Maybe the desert cucumbers can`t take our humidity?

[oreopaksun]

OK, having rewatched this, now I am armed for powdery mildew, pickle worms, nematodes, etc. and give it another go for the fall. Here's to quick germination!

[Sunkissedclo]

I’m curious on how to use a hydrogen peroxide spray? Is there a specific dilution or recipe you recommend?

[GettingFITjourney]

I'm in Broward . Lost 8 vines in just 3 days last year because of mites :/

[retheisen]

My only successful cucumber was a seed that didn't germinate until it was tossed into the compost pile.

[NicoleDallery]

Has anyone else dealt with the squash vine borer wasp? Any solutions to offer?

[matildabifsha]

Why do my cucumbers get bitter? Even the little ones