How to Prune Cucumbers & Identify Suckers
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Today, I'll show you how I'm pruning my Diva cucumbers, growing on my lower and lean trellis. They are all being trained to a single leader which means we must remove all the suckers. I'll show you how to identify the suckers and which sun leaves to prune to keep the plant healthy. Other cucumbers tips in their as well :)
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It may seem too repetitive but I really appreciate you identifying all the anatomy over and over before pruning. It helps us beginners know what we're looking at in more than one variation of the plant. Thanks!
Agreed
Agree too. I like his video. Very clear
I taught for 27 years, (now retired), but research has proven one learns more thoroughly through repetition. Some kids need to be taught a concept hundreds of times to really master it.💜❤️💙(I'm one of those types I believe!)LOL😍🙃‼️
Yes, it helps.
Great video showing very clearly the various parts of the plant.
Perfectly explained and demonstrated. Couldn't ask for a better video on pruning cucumbers. Appreciate it!
If the nature is always right why are you removing suckers? 😁
Because they waste energy to produce these suckers to lure herbivores to eat the suckers instead of fruit bearing branches to increase its chances of reproduction but if you have no deer this is very beneficial if you have deer I always recommend only pruning a foot up once the plant is over three feet tall
It is right in its own way but humans here want fruit quicker…
I didn't know you could do a single leader for cucumbers. That was what I needed. Thank you.
this man's brows give me life!! LOL they're like two caterpillars chasing each other hahahaha. No hate, only admiration for both the video and the eyebrows
Thankyou very helpful! just starting my first veggie patch lots to learn but really enjoying it 👩🏻🌾
My dream brows😅
That's a magnificent SET! I basically have the same thing, except it's just one whole brow.
Somebody hold my pruners and hand me the tweezers! Lol
schung6 the brows caught my attention the second I played the video 😂
#Woollybears
I finally started my mini garden this year after so many years of desiring to do so. I have cucumbers planted and I am seeing some great growth for a beginner. Thank you for such an informative video. So easy to learn from. It also reminded me how much I don't know about plants. LOL. And how important it is to identify what we are planting and what it really needs to thrive the most. Thank you again! ✨
This is honestly one of the best cucumber videos I've seen to date (and I've watched many of them)! Thanks for sharing!
You seriously need to get out more lol
having only 3-4 fruits per plant is quite poor :))
i agree with you best video ever 👌
Thanks man! Haha not the worst problem to have!
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Why do we want to train to a single leader when the result is an excessively long, difficult to manage vine/plant?
I was getting overwhelmed by the leaves, so this was so incredibly helpful! Thank you!!!!!
Oh Steven - You're such a good teacher. If I lived closer to your farm I would be buying all my produce from you. Wishing you an awesome harvest and a successful endeavor.
Thanks so much my friend. Well I hope there will be a LOT more small farmers like me out there in the next 3-5 years so they can feed you the same quality produce. One of my goals of this channel is to help and inspire as many as I can into this career field.
Damn, I actually learned this for real! How much more productive are they, when pruned to a single leader? Great and helpful video, as always...
Fist year planting, next year I need to keep on top of pruning! I am surprised I have not had nightmares of being strangled by cucumber plants!!
What about topping the plant? My garden REALLY loves life. The soil here in southern Louisiana, Zone 8 is naturally rich. Plants like cucumbers or tomatoes grow thick, healthy & tall....sometimes way too tall. What is your method of controlling the overall growth of the plant. I have a similar “problem” with my lemon tree.
Hey! So i planted cucumber and I didn't do any pruning, no tying, etc. Now it's been growing for a month or two and it's wild. There has also been no cucumbers forming/growing (or dies very very soon and barely grows) and this may be due to pollination but also the flowers are completely covered and there are random and wild cucumber stems everywhere. What should I do to increase cucumber growth now? What's your opinion? Thank you!
Growing my first cucumber plants during lockdown.
Really helpful, thank you.
Me too, how is your going??..... Very helpful video.
Elaine Neblett I’ve had 3 cucumbers off them. I’ve sprayed them a couple of times for mildew but it’s not too bad. A couple of new small cucumbers have turned yellow and look like they’re starting to rot.
How are yours?
Really love your video. Especially when you kept naming the parts of the plant. Really helped remember them so I can share it w my son who’s nine. I’m helping him grow a garden and I normally kill stuff but he is doing a great job growing everything. Our cucumbers are going crazy so I decided to look up if it needs to be pruned. Thank you!!! Will be looking at more of your videos.
Thank you so much for explaining the structure of the cucumber. I have never known what to take away and have tried to grow them for years and ended up with too many leaves and some shrivelled fruit. I have 4 babies growing at the moment and can't wait to put your advise to work. You explained it so well.
I understand how to trim Cucumbers now thanks BUT DAM TRIM THEM BROWS?
Excellent explanation! Had 6 overgrown cukes, stopped vid and immediately went outside to prune suckers and secondary stems. Had a big pile of stems with little cukes. Great for lunch and all the leaves and vines stoke my next compost. So inspiring to see such a young man with boundless knowledge AND willing to share!
Thank for your simplicity. Pruning can be scary, afraid I’ll prune off too much. My Cuks have overgrown the top of my 6 ft trellis. Do I prune the top main stem ?? To stop it from growing more? Will it??
Its better to just leave it grow if its at the top
Thank you!! My cucumbers are looking very sad, and I've been trying to figure out why. Looks like I need to prune off the bottom leaves and get rid of the suckers.
Question. I can see pruning back extra leaves, but if the suckers can produce fruit as well wouldnt that increase your harvest? Do the suckers stunt the growth of the already growing fruit or the forward growth of the plant itself?
Good little video.. thanks for sharing. Question.. are those eyebrows real?
I raised my eyebrows when I saw the caterpillars.
🤣🤣🤣
Do you ever prune the top of a cucumber or just keep letting it grow?
Thank you. This is my first time growing vertically and this was a very informative video. I appreciated the repetition of identifying the parts of the plant. Great job! I feel confident that my plants will be prolific.
Thank you. Good camera angles. You showed exactly what needed to be removed and identified other parts of the plant. 👍🏿Bristol UK🇬🇧
This video was awesome! I didn’t even know about suckers and the need to remove them 🤦🏻♀️ I had actually watched it because I was wondering if I needed to prune the main stem on one of mine. It’s grown over the top of my trellis by about a foot now. I had hoped some of the tendrils would latch on to the other side (it’s a pyramid shape) but it just got bent downward by a heavy rain today 😭 Do I cut it off where it bent? Or is there some other way to train it back down maybe? Thanks in advance!
Informative and concise, this was exactly what I needed. Cheers!
Damn boy did you fertilize those eyebrows
I've raised a garden all my life i love gardening and took that love from my daddy and had 2 huge fields to grow our food and if we didn't grow it we didn't eat it we didn't have much but we always had food but I don't have huge gardens now so thankyou for the video I had never let them climb but got 1 row done yesterday so even with a couple rows and your video I'll even have plenty to can and share thanks again truly appreciated 😲❤
This was just outstanding. Goodbye suckers! Can’t wait for my lettuce, tomatoes and cucumbers. Going to be a wonderful summer!
Hi, thanks for this video! Can you prune a plant with this method that is already large?
Great video! Exactly the info I needed, and you kept it clear and CONCISE. So tired of rambling videos.
Thank you for the video! I have been gardening for years and this is the first year I'm going to attempt growing cucumbers & zucchini vertically. Are you pruning the suckers so that one plant puts all its energy into constantly producing fruit? I've never pruned any garden plants and have had monster size cucumbers & zucchini (even though we eat the zucchini flowers) But those two plants took up a lot of space! Thank you again for the video- I'm going to check out your other vids!
This was my first year growing cucumbers. I used a container as like an experiment to see if it would work. Seems to be doing really good. Thanks for the information I went right over and picked off the nodes. I was curious about pruning too, but you also covered it. I appreciate that you actually explained in proper detail the parts, function,and how to. Thanks so much, you made my life easier.
I'm so happy I stumbled upon your channel. I did not know cucumbers needed to be pruned. I've grown them before on a trellis, many years ago; and I thought I'd try my hand at container growing also. Thank you for explaining the hows and whys of it.
It's my first time growing anything really, I get spots on my leaves that are exposed to sun and not touching the ground similar to 4:20-4:40, are these just normal from bugs or whatever or how much should I be worrying about spraying fungicides because of them?
shmootube5000 spray baking soda, dish soap and water on them, helps with pests and also helps plant to flower.
This video showed me exactly what i needed to know! Thank you
Very useful thanks.
When I was (very) little, we lived next door to a WW1 ...yes 1...veteran.
Mr Buckmaster. He only had one lung as a result of being gassed.
I always remember what he told my dad about cucumber, tomato sucker removal.
If you smoke, wash your hands of wear gloves.
Nicotine will kill the plant. 😁😁
Do you ever "top" your indeterminate cucumbers ? I also like your "to the point" video
Thanks for sharing. Shall start pruning properly tomorrow. Just harvested one precious cucumber. 😋😀Two are on the way.🤗. Too many male flowers😩. Where can I get albeit alpha cucumber seeds?
Hey there! I have two varieties of cucumbers growing, a pickling variety and Armenian. I’m training them this same way, however I’m noticing that the female flowers are only appearing on the suckers. Which makes me not want to prune the suckers, for obvious reasons. Do you have any idea why this would be occurring? I’m noticing it mainly on the Armenian cucumbers, but the pickling variety has very few female flowers as well. I started both from seed around April/May (had to restart several, my dog ate them down to sticks multiple times LOL). Thanks!!
Great video! Not sure what kind of cucumber plant I got but it’s producing a LOT of females and very few males. There are also multiple crotches with 4 females growing?! Any advice on how yo manage them? Keep them all or …🥴?
Also, in your video you showed a flower/fruit that’s been successful pollinated. The flower looked closed. I thought that meant it’s not opened yet and not ready to be pollinated? 😂😂 Can you go into some more detail of the life cycle of the female flower and what it looks like/does before and after successful/not successful pollination? I would SO appreciate your help!!
Since cucumber stems are furry, hairy, prickly like tomato suckers, can new plants be CLONED from clipping and planting suckers?
Liked, Saved, and Subscribed. A great video, clear, simple, and full of info.
Question though, do cucumbers only fruit from the top part, I wonder why so many people defoliate the lower parts of the plant.
Am I correct by think, when you have a fruit on the cucumber plant that is grown and ready to pick, you should prune the leaves below it?
I am getting that impression too from the video. It would have been nice for an answer to your ? though.
Thank you! I never realized you can do so much to help the plant grow more fruit!
Hi...total beginner here who didn't do my research! I struggled just to keep the 10 seedlings alive and protect from the heat and deer and now it looks like kudzu everywhere on fence and ropes. Our cucumbers are about 1.5 in only....just not producing and we have obviously too many vines and leaves...desperately need guidance....
Thank you for this video. I had no clue. I have 4 cucumber plants, which are wilder than Friday night. I'm pruning them first thing in the morning.
Ted, that doesn't look like The Galapagos... Alexis is going to be so mad.
Seriously though, that was a clear, helpful video. TY
This is NOT just something folks that needlessly obsess over their gardens. Tomatos with proper spacing and peppers can perform adequately without pruning but I've had the unsightly dead cucumber leaves and air blocking squash vegetation sustain bacterial and fungal colonies that trashes250 geet of valuable garden because I refused to prune and left dead and yellowing leaves lay. This is first level gardening knowlege and is as important as watering.
Thanks for your video. I had no idea that cucumber plants had suckers. I thought that the plant just got really big. (Mine is monstrous; now I know why.)
Would I want to prune off the suckers on a pickling cucumber plant. I'm growing in 15 gallon pots and want as much harvest as possible. In a 15 gallon pot, how many cucumber plants can I grow? Thanks!
Thank you for the video. While I had a tough year last year growing cucumbers, is taking off this year. I do have a question with respect to pinching off the suckers. Can I take the suckers and place them in water (indoors) and try to grow roots just like I would with tomato suckers?
Sorry if you’ve already answered this in another comment, but do you always plant basil with your cucumbers? That looked like what you had planted in the video. Just curious. Thanks!
I haven't pruned or removed any of the suckers on my cucumbers. They are growing up the cattle panel and I believe for the most part they have grown to about 5 and half feet tall. One might be about 6 feet up the panel the smallest one about 3 feet. Anyway, I have a ton of flowers mostly male but a lot of female/fruit flowers and I'm wondering if it's too late to prune and remove suckers? It is kind overgrown I want to get mass production out of my plants. What should I do? Also, since I haven't removed any suckers, will it be difficult at this point to identify them and remove them? Thanks, any bit of information and advice will help.
Help! My cucumber plant is giving cucumbers but it doesn't look good. It's not climbing and if I prune dead or dying leaves I'd be left with pickling cucumbers and stem 🥴
Hi, I am growing cucumbers but they grew in yellow and fat. They never even turned green. Do you know why that could have happened? I'm in zone 9A.
I know all about suckers on tomatoes but it’s her and HILDA keep up no I’m learning about suckers on cucumber plants. Fake or 20 some plants there’s no way I can keep up with it let alone finding all the pickles to pick I’m gonna definitely not get all the pickles we all miss them . So Provenum will be tougher than hell
My new cucumbers are just getting some flowers on them and the only female flower starting so far is on a sucker. I really don't want to remove it but I know I should. Especially because it's getting so late in the season and they are new plants I just want to let it grow into a cucumber 😢
Thanks, this is really helpful information for me. My husband usually grew the cucumbers but I am this year. So this will really help me.
Hi, I'm a total beginner, how to tell the difference between a sucker and a new fruit growing or a sun leaf, they look similar in infancy stage and I don't want to accidentally remove a flower/fruit...Thank you!
I have cucumbers growing rampant on a trellis I built. I keep pushing the ends through and over the top. I fear it’s getting too long. They just keep growing. Should I just cut them back or what?
so I've got this really big cucumber plant with lots of flowers, tendrils, leaves and this ball shaped growth at the end of many growth points. I have not identified any fruit yet. I'm using your pruning technique but unsure about the end point of these stems. What do I do with those??
I absolutely love your videos. They have been so helpful for us. I have a question I have watched your other videos on cucumbers and especially the video on pollinating the flowers. Why on these plants that you have on this video did they not have any male flowers? I had watched your video also on Letting the cucumber go too long and killing off the plant. I think in our past years that has been our problem because the leaves were big enough to cover and we couldn't see we had cucumbers. Thank you for this video, any help would be appreciated.
I'm growing cucumbers and I planted them may 14 is my cucumbers dying cause of the frost because I don't see flowers , also my cucumbers are still small and thin I'm trying everything it breaks my heart please let me know what I have to do
Fabulous. Still not confident im able to identify the suckers. My cucumber plants are still young. It looks like multiple fruits off of each node. Thank you
I'm new at gardening, I wish I would have known about you months ago! I just spent 4 hours trying to intangle my cucumber and squash in the backyard!
So after finally figuring out which flowers were male and which are female I removed as many males a I could yesterday. I watched your video today and was excited to be able to go out and remove the suckers but with all of those flowers gone I can't figure out where the suckers are. Help please. Newbie to the garden 😢 0:12
Help! I’m growing lemon cucumber but the leaves don’t look very healthy. Could it be too much water? How much and how often do you water each plant?
Should I remove a large sucker that grew about 2-3ft long or leave it? I noticed when one cucumber grew while the other stayed small on the sucker vine. It's located at the bottom of plant. I'm a new gardner.
I wish i had seen this video earlier, may be it would have helped my cucumber plant. My plant is producing amazing cucumbers but the cucumbers are bitter. Could you give me a tip what would cause this?
Mine are not this pronounced and yet they are not young. I did not cut any of my suckers off and so far am getting cucumbers but the fruit is smaller and under-developed. You want me to cut off all the suckers on all my plants? Then how do you continue to get fruit? This is my first year of having adult cucumbers as last year my plants were eaten alive by cucumber beetles. I have seen a few beetles this year but it has only been about 5 if that and some of them are on my zucchini plants. I did not get cucumbers last year so learning this has been an experience. I do not have a cucumber bulb like you do on your plants - it’s more like just a blossom, tentacle and sunflower. The problem I have is trying to differentiate between the sunflower and the sucker - they both look the same. I will simply keep trying as like I said this is my first year getting my plants to grow.
I appreciate if you tell me why my plant doesn’t make cucumber, I give them enough water and add compost and it have enough sun. Is it need fertiliser as well ? If yes what kind of fertiliser
Question ~~I know that sucker plants on tomatoes can be planted separately from the parent plant and grow into their own maturity fairly quickly. Can the same be done with a cucumber?
Muy cucumberd only have mame flowers :( I don't see anything looking like a female flower, fruit.
I have a patch of Armenian cucumbers, which I know are really not a true cucumber and a melon, but they do look like they are similar in growing pattern and leaf shapes. Should I prune them the same way?
Hi.. I am beginner gardener. I have planted cucumber plant which is 2 feet tall and has already started flowering. Shall I keep those flowers or prune it. Is it normal to have flower so early, when the plant in not fully grown ?
How do you pollenate plants if there inside your lanai if no bees can get to them? I have huge cucumber plant but flowers just keep falling off but it's still growing.
HI, I have a cucumber plant and the baby cucumbers have black spots on it where there are normally bumps. Do you know if that is normal and the black spots will go away as it matures or does it sound diseased?
My cucumbers are going places they don’t belong. Can I cut of the growing ends and leave some suckers to keep them more confined?
when do you stop pruning, Im assuming your're in the NY /NJ area? Or when at what time in ourc area do you allow cucumbers and tomatoes to flower fully in July or earlier?
Why do you need to remove the suckers? I know in tomatoes they don’t produce. But you said they can produce fruit. What is the disadvantage of letting them grow?
Thank you. I had no idea this should be done. Next season, can you do a video on how to install the vertical string supports. I don’t think I did it correctly this year. Thank you!
question my cucumber leaves are turning yellow, just got back from 7 day vacation , had hail storm and alot of water
Hey. So im a new gardener and I have some cucumber issues. I planted 5 seeds and I guess I didn't give them enough space bc they have all grown together, the tendrils are all tangled together and i dnt know what to do. Its just a cucumber jungle right now
Steven. The best video cucumber. Help. How can I get read of yellow spotting leaves disease????
My cukes are almost at the top of the string trellis I built, prob 5ft. What do I do with them when they hit the top! I can't possibly let them keep growing up since no more support.
What kind of cucumbers did you plant? Also, I noticed that you have spearmint mixed in with the cucumbers. What benefits does spearmint have for the cucumbers? Thank you so much for your videos as they are very helpful. Very much appreciated.
How do I deal with fire ants that are trying to pop up in my garden? They've eaten my potatoes & I've read they go after cucumbers too. Any tips that for keeping them out as well as how to kill the fire ants once they get into the garden? Thank you.
always wanted to know this part of growing cucumbers, perfect explenation thank you.
Pruning has never increased my yield if my plants stay healthy that being said pruning like this is to keep plants healthy by increasing air flow to lower humidity and decreasing soil splatter on leaves to decrease bacterial viral and fungus infection it also allows to spot spray pest like cucumber beetles that spread viruses and bacteria
Question, what is the best way to start your cucumbers From a small ceiling? I’m growing them in the dirt but the leaves seem to be touching the ground way too much and I’m afraid they’re going to get disease. And there are no vines yet so that I can train it to go up a trellis. Any advice?
Oh wow.. I been making sure to keep them growing up the trellis.. I'll be pruning today. Thanks
Are those caterpillars considered beneficial insects? Sorry. Had to🤣 love your informative video
I grow cukes in Alaska. In a bucket. In a tunnel. Tomorrow they’ll be getting pruned. I never knew! Thank you!
Hey is there a reason why you plant basil around your cucumbers?I heard it helps with bugs.Curious
I have one cucumber plant that has zillions of flowers and no shortage of bees, but no fruit is produced, just one.
But ants are all over it.