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!
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😍🙃‼️
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!
some of my fellow growers think that trimming leaves are not necessary. But I do it to for several reasons including everything you mention here. Thank you for sharing! Cucumber leaf pruner here.
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 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! ✨
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.
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 😲❤
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.
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.
Thank you so much for your excellent lesson. Never grew cucumbers and this summer I planted some and you just showed me how to managed them. I had no idea. Thank you. I really appreciate your identifying the anatomy. I know something now. :)
Thank you. This is one of the best videos I have seen about pruning cucumbers. It should help during the upcoming growing season here in Southeastern Wisconsin.
I'm starting to do more research so I have some tools and tips to be successful instead of wasting time and money. You were super informative!!! Pruning seems to be very important for growing successful plants and thought I was doing it right but was not doing a very good job. I just had a bad run with my tomatoes that I put sooo much time into and after moving my plants, they were attacked by a crazy huge caterpillar that snuck up on me!!! So I am not giving up! I'm in a fixed place that I can re-focus and will be looking through more of your videos! I'm actually writing stuff down like I'm sitting in a class, you make it easy to understand!!! 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.
Instant subscribe. this is EXACTLY what I needed! This is my first year ever gardening, and my cucumbers have been the most incredible experience watching something go from seed to fruit, but I was so confused why they weren't a pretty neat vine and BOOM I didn't know about pruning suckers at all!!!
Wow nicely done, this is my second year growing cucumbers, had little success last year and I think I now know why, I didn't take of suckers because I didn't know they was a thing, one thing for sure, this weekend I will be in my garden looking over them and getting them gone. Brilliant, thank you.
I’m 100 miles south of Orlando, Fla. and attempting to grow cucumbers. Your videos are a great help. I grew them every year in N.Y. But down here might be a little more challenging because of the heat. So far I only have seedlings. In a few more days I will be putting them into the 4” pots. I’ll keep you advised as to how I’m doing. Thank You for all your great videos.
Best cucumber video I have seen. Thank you! My cukes last year looked better and produced more fruit than ever after following these tips. Can't wait for this summers crop! 😊
That was awesome education. I also luv’d your explanation of pruning tomatoes 🍅 so I now know what I am doing with pruning my cucumbers 🥒 and tomatoes 🍅. Very appreciative 👍
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.
Thank you! That was extremely helpful as I have never grown cucumber before. I had watched several videos which did not identify the parts of the plant and show so clearly what needs to be done! Much appreciated. Liked and subscribed!
This video is fabulous. Super helpful for me being a beginner. First year growing cucumbers and see what I did wrong. I did no pruning. Did harvest a few cucumbers so far, thankfully. I will know more for next year. Thank you so much!!
Great to have instruction in the Lord's creation. We have large gardens. We see more now that we're saved. "You must be born again to see the kingdom of God."
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?
Thanks Steven and greetings from Sydney Australia. I have just started growing my first cucumbers and have found your video the BEST one I have watched. Can’t wait to get out there tomorrow morning with my pruning snips. Just subscribed and looking forward to watching more especially my out of control tomatoes! ❤️🐨🇦🇺
Informative and helpful video for beginners. I read about removing suckers but couldn't identify the terms used. So thanks Steve. I'm growing Japanese Cucumbers in my garden in Malaysia.
I have now watched this four 2nd time now. I searched it back out cause as with your tomato explanation it is easy to understand and I learnt a lot so thank you again. From Western Australia
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.
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!
Learned something new today... I didn’t know you could prune cucumbers 🥒 like that. I’m going to try it this year. They always sprawl too much for me, so I don’t plant😔. And thank you for explaining so thoroughly your process. Have a great day 🧤🥒❣️
Great video! I followed this process and it has helped produce dozens, if not hundreds of healthy cucumbers.This is my first year gardening and I planted waaaaay to many cucumber plants for my single household. However, it's keeping me busy during the Covid19 nightmare. I'm in Michigan and have already canned/pickled 20+quart size jars. Over the next 30 days I could possibly can another 100 jars lol. I will probably start giving to neighbors shortly.
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
This was soooo helpful, especially the anatomy of it all. I have had my cucumber plant well over 2 months with 3 cucumbers growing (non pretty shape) but i will be pruning and removing suckers now that i know. Really great simple and easy info. Thxs!!
This is so helpful and easy to understand.I tied cuke vines and they tendriled around the support fencing but the plants were too rangy.I did not know you could prune them.This year I will try this!Thank you!
New subscriber, Good video, great explanation of the plant, I love that you keep repeating and showing us over and over again it helps it stick in my brain
Moving East completed? I had to bring up the cuc video because I haven't had a crop in a few years, needed some guidance. Thank you so much! Happy planting/harvesting.
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?
Just found your channel and watched this video--and I really needed to learn avout cucumber plants! I am gardening for the first time. Anyway, I liked and subscribed!
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.
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??
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.
Make sure you tell everyone to give a thumbs up👍👍👍👍👍 the TH-cam algorithm will recommend your video to more people . Your videos are amazingly well done and informative
Thank you. I didn't know cucs had suckers! 'Course this is only my 2nd year growing them so... It's my first time finding you but I will sub because you taught me something AND because you asked. Thanks again!
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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.
I didn't know you could do a single leader for cucumbers. That was what I needed. Thank you.
Perfectly explained and demonstrated. Couldn't ask for a better video on pruning cucumbers. Appreciate it!
I was getting overwhelmed by the leaves, so this was so incredibly helpful! Thank you!!!!!
Thank you. Good camera angles. You showed exactly what needed to be removed and identified other parts of the plant. 👍🏿Bristol UK🇬🇧
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!
This was just outstanding. Goodbye suckers! Can’t wait for my lettuce, tomatoes and cucumbers. Going to be a wonderful summer!
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 👌
Well done and helpful video. I appreciate you repeating the names of the plant structure several times. Many thanks for covering all the bases.
Your video for pruning cucumber plants is the best, after watching several I'm stopping right here, I know how to do it now. Thank you.
some of my fellow growers think that trimming leaves are not necessary. But I do it to for several reasons including everything you mention here. Thank you for sharing! Cucumber leaf pruner here.
Thanks again! I watch your video every summer to refresh my memory about pruning cucumber plants! Very helpful 👍
That's so cool I'm glad it's so helpful!
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 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! ✨
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.
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 😲❤
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.
Very simple and precise. Repetition makes the subject more familiar. Excellent job.
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.
Thank you so much for your excellent lesson. Never grew cucumbers and this summer I planted some and you just showed me how to managed them. I had no idea. Thank you. I really appreciate your identifying the anatomy. I know something now.
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Thank you. This is one of the best videos I have seen about pruning cucumbers. It should help during the upcoming growing season here in Southeastern Wisconsin.
Thank you! I never realized you can do so much to help the plant grow more fruit!
I'm starting to do more research so I have some tools and tips to be successful instead of wasting time and money. You were super informative!!! Pruning seems to be very important for growing successful plants and thought I was doing it right but was not doing a very good job. I just had a bad run with my tomatoes that I put sooo much time into and after moving my plants, they were attacked by a crazy huge caterpillar that snuck up on me!!! So I am not giving up! I'm in a fixed place that I can re-focus and will be looking through more of your videos! I'm actually writing stuff down like I'm sitting in a class, you make it easy to understand!!! 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.
Instant subscribe. this is EXACTLY what I needed! This is my first year ever gardening, and my cucumbers have been the most incredible experience watching something go from seed to fruit, but I was so confused why they weren't a pretty neat vine and BOOM I didn't know about pruning suckers at all!!!
Wow nicely done, this is my second year growing cucumbers, had little success last year and I think I now know why, I didn't take of suckers because I didn't know they was a thing, one thing for sure, this weekend I will be in my garden looking over them and getting them gone. Brilliant, thank you.
I’m 100 miles south of Orlando, Fla. and attempting to grow cucumbers. Your videos are a great help. I grew them every year in N.Y. But down here might be a little more challenging because of the heat. So far I only have seedlings. In a few more days I will be putting them into the 4” pots. I’ll keep you advised as to how I’m doing. Thank You for all your great videos.
Best cucumber video I have seen. Thank you! My cukes last year looked better and produced more fruit than ever after following these tips. Can't wait for this summers crop! 😊
That was awesome education. I also luv’d your explanation of pruning tomatoes 🍅 so I now know what I am doing with pruning my cucumbers 🥒 and tomatoes 🍅. Very appreciative 👍
Extremely helpful. Never grown cucumbers before and wasn't expecting the plants to explode with growth
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.
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.
Best video on pruning I’ve seen on youtube..thanks so much! You are a great teacher!
I grow cukes in Alaska. In a bucket. In a tunnel. Tomorrow they’ll be getting pruned. I never knew! Thank you!
Learned more from this video than all combined cuke vids on u-tube , Thanks
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.
This was great. I’m new to cucumbers this fall planting and this was the best informational video on cukes.
First time growing cucumber in the panhandle of Florida. This was very helpful. Thank you.
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!!
Thank you! That was extremely helpful as I have never grown cucumber before. I had watched several videos which did not identify the parts of the plant and show so clearly what needs to be done! Much appreciated. Liked and subscribed!
This video is fabulous. Super helpful for me being a beginner. First year growing cucumbers and see what I did wrong. I did no pruning. Did harvest a few cucumbers so far, thankfully. I will know more for next year. Thank you so much!!
I've been growing for years, never trimmed up my cuqs; I will be from now on. Thank you!
Great to have instruction in the Lord's creation. We have large gardens. We see more now that we're saved. "You must be born again to see the kingdom of God."
Very informative, I went right down and pruned my cucumber. I had so many
Wow showed me alot that I never new or heard of before.I will now become a Garden pro in training.
Thanks so much you are so knowledgeable.
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?
Thanks Steven and greetings from Sydney Australia. I have just started growing my first cucumbers and have found your video the BEST one I have watched. Can’t wait to get out there tomorrow morning with my pruning snips. Just subscribed and looking forward to watching more especially my out of control tomatoes! ❤️🐨🇦🇺
Oh wow.. I been making sure to keep them growing up the trellis.. I'll be pruning today. Thanks
Informative and helpful video for beginners. I read about removing suckers but couldn't identify the terms used. So thanks Steve. I'm growing Japanese Cucumbers in my garden in Malaysia.
I have now watched this four 2nd time now. I searched it back out cause as with your tomato explanation it is easy to understand and I learnt a lot so thank you again. From Western Australia
Youre a legend Steve. I never knew cucs had suckers. Didnt occur to me. I cant wait to up my cucumber game! Thanks mate.
The best explanation for pruning cucumbers. Thanks!
Informative and concise, this was exactly what I needed. Cheers!
always wanted to know this part of growing cucumbers, perfect explenation thank you.
I Have come back to this many times, it is just so clear and helpful. THANKS AGAIN :)
This was a really good straight-forward explanation and demonstration. Perfect example of great use of a tool like You Tube.
This is perfect. Now I’m headed out to prune my cucumber plants.
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.
I learned a lot! Instructions for pruning are on point and gives emphasis on identifying the parts of the cucumber. Thank you. Very informative.
I like the little hangers used to hold up the cucumber vines.
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!
Learned something new today... I didn’t know you could prune cucumbers 🥒 like that. I’m going to try it this year. They always sprawl too much for me, so I don’t plant😔. And thank you for explaining so thoroughly your process.
Have a great day 🧤🥒❣️
Great video! I followed this process and it has helped produce dozens, if not hundreds of healthy cucumbers.This is my first year gardening and I planted waaaaay to many cucumber plants for my single household. However, it's keeping me busy during the Covid19 nightmare. I'm in Michigan and have already canned/pickled 20+quart size jars. Over the next 30 days I could possibly can another 100 jars lol. I will probably start giving to neighbors shortly.
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
good to know. thank you. I will try this, this year. maybe I will get lots of cucumbers this year.
Thanks for sharing! Pruning cucumbers this afternoon!
Thanks dude! I had no idea cucumbers had suckered. I can't wait to get outside and see! You really broke it down!
This was soooo helpful, especially the anatomy of it all. I have had my cucumber plant well over 2 months with 3 cucumbers growing (non pretty shape) but i will be pruning and removing suckers now that i know. Really great simple and easy info. Thxs!!
This is so helpful and easy to understand.I tied cuke vines and they tendriled around the support fencing but the plants were too rangy.I did not know you could prune them.This year I will try this!Thank you!
New subscriber, Good video, great explanation of the plant, I love that you keep repeating and showing us over and over again it helps it stick in my brain
Thank you for identifying each structure and repeating them!! Very helpful!!!
Hi, thanks for this video! Can you prune a plant with this method that is already large?
Thank you for this video. It was very helpful in understanding how to prune a cucumber plant.
Thanks for the tips! This is our first year planting a garden and we have learned a lot from watching your videos 👍
I never knew you could or should prune cucumbers. This was so very informative.
Moving East completed? I had to bring up the cuc video because I haven't had a crop in a few years, needed some guidance. Thank you so much! Happy planting/harvesting.
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?
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!
I like your idea about the cucumber leaves
Just found your channel and watched this video--and I really needed to learn avout cucumber plants! I am gardening for the first time. Anyway, I liked and subscribed!
This is a wonderful piece. So enlightening. Thanks so much.
Great video! Exactly the info I needed, and you kept it clear and CONCISE. So tired of rambling videos.
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.
Very helpful, clarification clear, and concise. Thanks!
I always learn so much from your videos. First time growing cucumbers and needed to learn this. You explained it very well! Cheers
Really good because I'm just growing cucumbers this year. Thanks. I know you're in Tennessee now👍
great job showing me how to prune my cucumbers. Loved it for sure, LonnieRay
I will be trying this come spring.
Great job! Very helpful information and demonstration.
Simple, short, nice presentation. Thank you.
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
Great video! It took the mystery out of pruning cucumbers. 😊 Thanks
Loved the video about cucumber i love them and always had a hard time with them this will help alot 😊🌞
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.
I just started my first vegetable garden this year and my cucumbers are a jungle that need pruning i guess... this video is very helpful!
Make sure you tell everyone to give a thumbs up👍👍👍👍👍 the TH-cam algorithm will recommend your video to more people . Your videos are amazingly well done and informative
Good advice :) Thank you so much!
Thank you. I never knew that and I’ve gardened for years. 👍
Steven. The best video cucumber. Help. How can I get read of yellow spotting leaves disease????
Thank you. I didn't know cucs had suckers! 'Course this is only my 2nd year growing them so... It's my first time finding you but I will sub because you taught me something AND because you asked. Thanks again!
Thanks very helpful can I pull suckers off all the way to the top of a string of plant?