How to Prune Cucumber Plants for Maximum Production and Disease Prevention
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In this video we cover how to properly prune your cucumbers so that your plants receive more airflow. This will help prevent diseases such as powdery mildew and will ultimately help you to produce more cucumbers!
PERFECT timing! My cucumbers are so wild right now
This is the third video I have watched on pruning vegetables by S&K. I have learned so much! Thank you. I can't wait to watch another.. so easy to understand and enjoyable!
Your hands must be like asbestos mitts! Each time i touch my plants, no matter how careful I am, those thorny stems get me! 😫
Planted cucumber for the first time this year. I didn't know they had suckers like tomatoes. I'll keep an eye on them now
When the suckers start, I like to wait to be sure it's not going to be blooms. But when I waited too long and see blooms on the branching sucker... oh, it gets hard to remove because... the blooms! LOL.😆
Great information! I’m fairly new to gardening and his videos have helped me a great deal. I’m sitting on front of my cucumber plant that has taken over four tomato cages and was just trying to grab my peppers. This video just saved me from eminent take over. Thanks for helping me free up the real estate for the watermelon I told my girlfriend we shouldn’t plant. Which reminds me great zucchini video by the way.
If you have a cucumber that gets overripe on the vine and rots it tells the plant that it's done it's job and dropped seeds for next generation. It still start withering away. Stay on top of getting all the cucumbers before they turn yellow. This will keep your plant producing longer.
The cucumbers I'm growing don't have any tendrils. Don't all cukes have them?
Might be squash or zuchini
Don’t just prune out foliage! Eat the leaves! Stir fry or eat in soups or like spinach.
THANK YOU! my zucs from you zuc video took off like CRAZY a day or 2 after I created airflow AND about to plant some bee loving flowers tonight...on to the cucs! VERY EXCITED!
Do cucumbers only grow off the main stem. Do they produce on the suckers also?
I live in the south and I would never do this. Sun is way too strong and extra leaves keep cucumbers cool. Without enough leaves main branches would burn up and the entire plant would dry up and die.
Just some interesting information to add to growing cucumbers, cucumbers must be pollinated more than once to be able to grow to maturity. They have to be pollinated as many as 11 times and sometimes up to 16 times. If you’ve ever had a cucumber to curl up at the end it’s because it’s been under pollinated. Answer: become a beekeeper or ask a beekeeper to have a hive in your yard.
Wow. Thanks for sharing this!
@Nina Moore I've been gardening for over a decade, and I never knew that! Thx for the info! 😃
Good tip thanks
Depends on the veriatie. There are some varieties that don't need to be pollinated.
My cucumber plants are growing up a trellis and I have removed all sucker-side shoots until they get to shoulder high, then I train them to spill back over and I keep some of the side shoots now that they are up high. Wish me luck.
I’m new at this and I grow my cucumbers in a container. I’m getting ready to transplant my seedlings. Question, how far into the growing process do you start to prune?
66 years old, still learning. thank you, from harnett co.
I have to prune mine.ikeep fiding old overgrown yellow cucumbers I couldn't see through the leaves.1
Drink Everytime he says folage instead of foliage 🤣🤣
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Planting cucumbers for the first time
Thanks for the video.
Zone 7, too.
Your grass looks like mine!!
Subbed because your vids are shorter and more concise.
Thanks.
I could tell he’s in my zone 2 seconds into hearing him talk 😜. Great video, very tight and perfect for someone like me just getting into this. Subscribed!
I have learned so much from your channel. Thank you! This is my first year of having a larger garden.
I love this channel! I am brand new to gardening. You are a very good teacher.
Hey how do I keep the moles, voles and chipmunks out of my garden? I have one of those noise makers so far…ugh never had this issue before..also is it ok to grow cucumbers near corn or okra? Thanks for the information
I sprinkle cayenne pepper on the soil and it works
I didn't have to do that because a groundhog came through and did it for me 😞
I appreciate your videos they get right to the point. Thank you! I’m a new subscriber.
I appreciate you subscribing 😀
Glad you're liking the videos! I've had a blast making them.
Thanks it help me a lot because I don’t which is which ! So is easier to cut the leaves for air flow! We are in Minneapolis and i just plant our vegetables couple days ago and not yet grown ( cold too) but is good to know 👍
Thank for this info 😊
Thanks for watching :)
Have to use gloves and sleeves when dealing with my cukes. Make me itch soooo bad ... but won't stop me from making pickles!
My question is can you use the leaves in order to make compost tea , I already use my grass clipping...just thought all those leaves removed from your garden like Zucchini and Cucumbers , may have benefits 😉
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You can add anything growing, that you've chopped down picked up or somebody gave you. I also add some garden soil or some compost and stir it up. Wait about 3 days, the longer the better. Don't be scared, IT REALLY STINKS!!!!!
I call mine "Gnarly Swamp Water" It's bad!!!! That's alright, it's worth it. Just put some Vicks VapoRub under your nose 🤭 and keep going.
I then take about 1 to 2 cups and put it in a 2 gallon bucket and fill with water and stir it up again. Then I water my plants with it.
It's awesome.
God bless
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Best cucumber pruning video out there, and I’ve looked! Thanks for the good visuals and getting straight to the point
Omg, I was just working in the garden all day and looked at my cucumbers. I'll be out there tomorrow. Thanks, timing was perfect for this video.
How to prevent bitterness in the cucumbers?
Just found your channel. Good tips, thank you.
I grew cucumbers in my garden and walked out with my wife and I have 10 massive songs laying around. Never again🙄
my cucumbers just started flowering everywhere for a couple days now, all i want to know is if i should pinch the flowers or not. can someone pls tell me if i should? ive been thru google and youtube and its all mixed answers
I wouldn't pinch the flowers. The male flowers outnumber the female flowers. However, you need them both for pollination.
@@skgreenhouse thank you so much!
My plants have been growing my vines are pretty long now on my cucumber plants but they’re growing bigger than expected and I was wanting to try to have them go up a trellis can add raise them off the ground and put them up on a string or a trellis of some sort after they’ve gotten really long or do I need to wait till next year to start doing that???
have you ever had mosaic on cucumbers, mine were kickin ass until the vines got 5 or 6 feet long and it started on the oldest leaves and has been working its way up the vine...grrr
I thought sweet success cucumbers should only be grown in a greenhouse where nothing pollinates it...don't they get bitter when grown where bees, flies, etc can pollinate them?
Thanks! I need to do this to my cucumbers and I appreciate the info!
How do you get so many blossoms? I've never seen so many before! Enjoy your informative videos.
Thank you for sharing your tips.
Do you compost your what you prune off? Or is it possible to spread or introduce disease insects and fungus into future gardens if I us it?
Can you prune too much?? I mean cam cukes get sunburned??
I noticed several problems with your demonstration. But hey I don’t k is it all so I will wish you good luck.
If you want to know what I think you did wrong just let me know.
Love your videos, thank you. We are your neighbor in NC and your tips are amazing.
You can mix equal parts whole milk and water and spray it on leaves to kill powdery mildew. It works great and can be repeated if it returns
Thank you for this! I had no idea what I was getting myself into growing cucumbers... so pruning is on my task list today!
I'm in zone 8 rain for days sprayed them for mildew been pruning for days but I will not pull suckers sweating buckets pruning my jungle but I've been successful this year. Thank you for the video
Out to prune my cukes, thanks for such educational videos
Thanks for the video. This is my first year growing cucumbers, squash and in big pots -tomatoes . If it looks like one of my plants has powdery mildew, would it be best to remove this plant completely?
We used a hog panel this year to trellis our cucumbers. Hoping it will work
I wish I could share a pic of my cucumbers. I need help. I have tons of babies. Just none are growing. They look like clusters of teeny tiny fruits. Clusters are the Size of saucers. This is the first year in struggling with this.
Not enough pollination. Try grabbing some female flowers and rub them over the male flowers to help the process
I accidentally broke the tip of my plant when trellises will my plant be ok its 6 ft tall
Good advice however you should have covered the difference in leaves. Sun leaves should be kept on the plant.
Thank you! Another great video!
Wow! Thank you so much Denise!
Never thought of pruning cucumbers, but it makes sense. Thank you
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If you do like this your plant not in balance, finally weak plants and a few cucumbers.. and plant get sick..many cucumbers get yellow and die of.
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So once it reaches the top what to do? I rather have more fruits and a long steam with few ones.
Should I limit how much of the plant, I prune?
Can you please tell me more about “airflow”?? 😂😂
Great info. Thanks. Keep up the good work
Same
Will be trying this one my leaves today thks
Thank you....great advice 😉👍
Im realizing that mine are getting pickle worms, when I open the cucumber up, its still inside alive, do you have this issue and how do you resolve it? ty for the video
I've been fortunate and have not had to deal with them. Picking your produce as early as possible is a good practice. Crushed rolled sections of leaves on damaged plants. This is where pupae hide and then emerge as adult moths, ready to repeat the pickleworm lifecycle.
Bug B Gon will work also.
Thank you to help us how to prune the cucumbers
You're very welcome! Thanks for watching!
Should I top them at 6 ft? Or let them grow over the trellis?
What is your plant spacing? Thanks.
Too much face time, not enough content. Airflow, got it.
Just in time to keep my cucumbers in shape from the start. Thanks for the great video
Your videos are SO helpful
Thank you. Good advice.
I had no idea that planting peppers together could get different ones to cross. Also great tip about the heat. I will shade mine in the hot sun. Thanks!!!!
Absolutely! Thank you for watching 🙏
thanks for the info. any recommendations on yellow leaves and how to treat them? thank you
You need to feed your plants nitrogen! Also, the oldest leaves will yellow naturally with time, you can just prune those off.
@@lilyxciv5637 thank you
Thank you from zone 8b
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Love ur vibes dude thanks for the vid
Thanks for sharing🥒🥒🥒🥰
I have to go raised bed as I live on rock. No dirt. H
Good shit. Thanks man
great help thanks \m/
Love your advice 😅.
Foliage (three syllables)
I didn’t think you said airflow too much 😂 and I liked how you pronounce foliage like Fo-lige …in New England we say Fo-lee-ige 😁
Love your videos! Great advice!
Thank you for the information. I had to prune my zucchini last year. My strawberries have a zillion leaves on them and underneath they are getting moldy. Do you think I could prune a few leaves for air flow?
Yes! I definitely would!
In the UK where we have a lot of damp summers,we prune old leaves on strawberries, and surround the plants with dry straw or hay to keep the air flow.
Zone 7b. Better get pruning
Those cucumber 🥒 plants look so healthy and beautiful. Im jealous. I gotta know ur secrets. Im in Zone 8! SC! Im going to definitely thin out my 3 plants tomar! Thank you 4 this tip! I know airflow is very important and keeping them off of the ground.
Don't prune me :O
YES! I love the sweet success cucumbers. In my area, I have a HORRIBLE problem with gourd beatles. My pumpkins, squash, etc has been a failure every year. I've tried every remedy I can find with no luck. Last year I decided to try cucumbers and tried the sweet success and one other kind. Of course, the gourd beatles came back just like every year and even though they attacked my other cucumber plant, the essentialy stayed off of the sweet success. I was really impressed. So if anyone has any ideas about how to treat my gourd beatles I'd love to hear it. It would be nice to grow something else. Lol. But if anyone has the same beatles problem as I do, try the sweet success.
Such healthy looking cucumbers! Wandering how to keep the leaves so thick and green???
Excellent video.
Thanks for your videos! Great advice and now I know what I'm doing wrong with my squash, cucumber and zucchini plants!
Happy that I surf upon your gardening tip channel.
Thank you for sharing this video
Hard on the eyes...
Thank you!
Thank you! I hope you can share a pruning video of winter squash. 🙏🏼
Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
Very informative as I an new to gardening
Thanks so much, for your help!