Do This NOW And Your Cucumbers Will NEVER STOP Producing!

In this video, I share 5 cucumber growing tips that will change the way you grow cucumbers forever. I have been growing cucumbers for 15 years across 3 different states, and these experiences have taught me what cucumber plants love, including how to trick a cucumber plant into nonstop cucumber production. Do this now and your cucumbers will never stop producing!

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0:00 Introduction
1:42 Cucumber Trick #1
7:22 Cucumber Trick #2
14:18 Cucumber Trick #3
19:05 Cucumber Trick #4
22:21 Cucumber Trick #5
29:09 My Favorite Cucumber Varieties
31:58 Adventures With Dale

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what’s growing on gardeners if there is one plant that every gardener should be growing in their vegetable garden it is the cucumber but cucumbers can be finicky if you give them exactly what they want they will produce like crazy but if you don’t give them exactly what they need they won’t give you squat over the last 15 years I have grown dozens of different varieties of cucumbers across three different states and these experiences have taught me a lot about what cucumber plants really want and I am going to share these experiences with all of you today if you do these things to your cucumber plants they will not stop producing cucumbers all the way until frost if you’re new to the channel please subscribe hit the bell for notifications and check out my Amazon store and Spreadshop links in the video description for everything I use in my garden and awesome custom apparel and gear cucumber plants are a bit of a paradox they have the potential to be either the most productive plant or the least productive plant in your entire vegetable garden we’ve all seen it a cucumber plant that has one or two whole cucumbers on it that’s starting to turn yellow and die back and the reason why this happens is biological once you understand the life cycle of a cucumber plant you can actually trick it into having insane production that’s because cucumbers don’t necessarily need to be very productive they want to just produce mature seed and perpetuate the species and if you neglect them and let them alone to their own devices they will do this very quickly and your cucumber plant will have a very short life but once you figure out how to trick these plants into production you will get production beyond what you ever thought is possible trick number one for crazy cucumber production is to protect your plants from pests and this is a very important thing to do because you need to do this early on in the cucumber plant’s life it doesn’t matter how productive your cucumber vines are if other things are taking your harvest from you well it may as well not be producing anything at all now there are many ways to protect a cucumber plant that are easy and affordable and I want to show you a few of my favorite options the best way to protect your cucumber plants is to get the vines up off the ground this is the best way to protect them from basically any types of pests whether they are birds squirrels rabbits insect pests getting them elevated growing them vertically is the best way that you can protect your harvest to the best ability possible and there are lots of ways that you can get your cucumber plants up off the ground but my favorite way is string trellising string trellising simply means to allow the vine to grow like a vine up a string and I’ve done this many different ways one of the easiest ways is just to run an eigh inch steel cable up overhead about 7 to 8 feet high and then use double tomato hooks with a synthetic twine it’s very important that you use a nylon twine because that won’t wear out in the rain and the elements like a cotton twine will cotton and other natural fibers they will shrink they will breathe they will degrade you don’t want to use them you want to use a synthetic fiber like nylon so what you see right here is a string that I have run about 7 feet overhead and these cucumber vines are starting to grow up the string but these cucumber plants won’t necessarily grow up the string on their own we will actually have to progressively clip them to the string and to use that we are going to use these plant clips now they are very easy to use they have a little center that fits perfectly along the string and then you will just lift up the vine and every few nodes you’ll just clip it up the vine and it’s important that we do this when they’re very small as they grow taller and taller you’ll need to support them less and less so you can increase that clip spacing let’s take a look at this cucumber vine right here you’ll see I have this clipped down low i have one two clips and actually up here where I’d clip the third clip look this is pretty cool the actual runner of the vine itself grabbed onto the string and while that is very helpful we don’t necessarily want to trust that runner because some of these cucumber varieties they get so productive that the runners can actually break under their own weight so we are still going to take one of these plant clips and we want to try and grab it right underneath a node because the nodes where the leaves are which is right here that can hold the most weight so we’re just going to press that clip right underneath the node and we are going to clip that and that is going to lend more and more support and there we have a perfectly supported cucumber vine and we will just progressively do that as the cucumber vines grow but that’s not the only way to grow your cucumber plants vertically for example you can grow them along a cattle panel trellis now these right here are indeterminant tomatoes mostly cherry types that grow as an indeterminate vine and they’re growing up along a cattle panel trellis that I just stapled to the back of my wood fence you can do something like this you can buy a big cattle panel trellis and you can just mount them to a few Tposts either way this is a great way to support cucumber vines this will give you a little bit of a closer look these can be lower maintenance because they allow the runners of the vines to grab more areas and have a much larger surface area to grab onto and they’ll also grow in and out of the slats of the cattle panel trellis themselves so because of this they require a lot less maintenance since you won’t have to go ahead and clip them every 6 in or so here’s another example using some smaller vines now these again are not cucumbers they are a vining squash and a honeydew melon but they’re in the same family as cucumbers they are all cucits and they are growing up along a cattle panel trellis so you can just pretend that these are cucumber plants and they will grow in the exact same way once they get started they will eventually fill out this entire trellis that you see right here another way I like to grow my cucumber vines is up my rain gutter yes I’m actually using the rain gutter as a trellis i simply take those double tomato hooks with the twine and I hook them to the top of my rain gutter and this has been a fantastic system to grow things like cucumbers and indeterminant tomatoes now you can’t go too crazy with this method because you can’t put all that much weight on your rain gutters you have to be a little bit conservative here but I have done great over the last 3 years every year growing a few plants of choice up the rain gutter it makes it really easy to just hook the double tomato hooks on with a few S hooks that are made out of plastic so it doesn’t scrape your gutters and also there’s lots of benefits to growing under the gutters because the sophets that overhang well that protects them from excessive rainfall and the house itself is a great windbreak so there’s a lot less damage that happens with the winds they’re in a very sheltered and protected location plus they get the radiative warmth of the house come the fall so these actually wind up being my latest producing plants when the stuff in my open garden eventually gets killed since these are in such a sheltered location they usually last a little bit longer trick number two to get your cucumber plants to produce like crazy isn’t really a trick at all it’s a reminder and that is to fertilize them regularly cucumber plants can grow from seed to producing mature cucumbers that you are physically picking off the plants in as little as 50 days they are one of the fastest growing things that are commonly found in backyard vegetable gardens and all of that speed well that requires a lot of energy so you have to fertilize them regularly otherwise they will fail to grow at a rapid rate cucumbers are very heavy feeders so for that reason we need to fertilize our cucumber plants every 2 weeks twice a month we have to get on a regular fertilizing routine because if we keep skipping out on it or we miss it well our cucumber plants are going to run low on nutrients and they are going to stall on us if you’re curious about any of the products that I’m featuring in this segment I will place direct links to them down in the video description for your convenience now that you know how often to fertilize your cucumber plants what should we give them well if you want an extremely detailed rundown on how I fertilize my whole vegetable garden I will link to a video both above and down in the video description that I just made a couple of weeks ago that is a complete guide on how I fertilize my vegetable garden so it explodes with growth but if you want a quicker rundown on how I specifically focus on cucumber plants this is how I do it it consists of a dry fertilizer component and a liquid fertilizer component and the key to the dry fertilizer component is going to be an all-purpose fertilizer it doesn’t have to be this exact Espoma Plant Tone product it just has to be a generalpurpose all-purpose organic fertilizer now this one has an NPK of 533 which is great for all-purpose fertilizing but anything around a 555 444 454 345 anything where all of the numbers are represented and close together and not separated by one or two notches is going to be just fine and then the secret powder that I add is bone meal bone meal is incredibly important to the production of flowering and fruing vegetables like cucumbers tomatoes eggplant and bulbing vegetables like your potatoes your sweet potatoes and your onions that’s because this is a concentrated source of phosphorus and also calcium and phosphorus and calcium is excellent for strong root development and also strong tuber development if you’re growing a tuber like a potato but all of that phosphorus greatly influences the blooming cycle so bone meal is one of the best things that you can do to boost blooming so if you’re growing anything that flowers even if it’s not an edible even if you’re growing roses or hydrangeas or you’re growing fruit trees or ornamental flowering trees bone meal is a great additive now the thing that you have to understand with these granular organics is they are precursors to fertilizers in their raw form they’re made out of ground up raw materials so because of that they take a little while to break down the day you apply them they don’t really do anything they have to be consumed by the soil microbiology and they need to decompose and that is when they release their nutrients so they kind of take two or 3 weeks to really kick in that’s why it’s so important that you repeat this process every two weeks because we want to constantly feed them so there are always nutrients that are in the process of breaking down and slowly trickle feeding our plants now when it comes to dosages what I like to do is I like to give each individual plant about 1 tspoon to 1 and 1/2 tspoons of the organic allpurpose and anywhere from half to 1 tspoon of the bone meal you will spread that in a circle around the base of each plant because the roots come out in a circle you can take your fingertips and just work that into the top inch of the soil or you can place it and then cover it with some mulch or a small handful of compost now one of the things I like doing which makes life a little bit easier is I like taking a 5gallon bucket that you see right here and I like filling it with three parts of the organic all-purpose fertilizer and one part of the bone meal so in that 3:1 ratio you then mix it around and then I have an all-purpose fertilizing blend that’s perfect for all of my fruing vegetables and then you can just give each plant 1 and 1/2 to 2 tablespoons every 2 weeks and that can make your life a little bit easier so you don’t have to drag around two bags then after that I like to add a liquid fertilizer component the reason why we use a liquid fertilizer component is the liquid fertilizer is available right away it is either been processed naturally or in a lab somewhere so the day you apply it the roots can start uptaking the nutrients so there’s no lag time with them so for that I like using fish fertilizer which is my absolute favorite organic water soluble fertilizer product now the only downside to fish fertilizer is it is a 511 NPK so it’s 5% nitrogen 1% phosphorus and 1% potassium so it’s very nitrogenheavy and while this is absolutely chalk full of the nitrogen that your plants need to put on leafy green growth and full of every healthy micronutrient under the sun to prevent nutrient deficiencies it doesn’t have a lot of P and K so for that reason it’s not the greatest on its own for flowering and fruing plants so for that reason I like to give that watering can a fortification with a little bit of half strength allpurpose 20 2020 fertilizer to balance it out so again in that watering can you will put 2 to three tablespoons per gallon of Alaska fish fertilizer and half to one tablespoon per gallon of the Jax 2020 2020 if you don’t want to buy a big bag of Jax 20 2020 you can just use something off the shelf like Miracle Grow tomato which is an 181821 or if you want to stay 100% organic you can get yourself an organic wateroluble fertilizer it doesn’t have to be any of these brands specifically that’s not really the point the point is that you follow up the organic fertilizers with a water- soluble fertilizer that the plants can uptake immediately just always make sure you put down the granular organic fertilizers around the base of your plants first then follow up with the watering can full of water soluble fertilizers because you need to wet down those granular organics to start the decomposition process so when you apply the dry fertilizers you want to put the liquid fertilizers right on top of them do that every two weeks twice a month trick number three is the most important cucumber growing tip of all and it is the one that so many gardeners fall victim to that trick is to pick your cucumbers as early and often as possible remember in the beginning of this video I told you the story about that cucumber vine that we’ve all seen that has one or two fruits hanging off of it that’s starting to turn yellow and then the vine dies back and all it did was produce those two fruits well that is a result of allowing the cucumbers to produce mature seed cucumber plants take reproduction very seriously as soon as a cucumber plant produces mature seed it says “Well I have fulfilled my purpose on this earth.” and it will begin to quit on you it will shrivel up it will turn yellow it will die back it doesn’t have a reason to go on anymore so if you neglect your cucumber plants if you let them germinate produce the first flush of flowers and the first flush of fruits and then those fruits turn large and yellow and they produce mature seed well that’s it those are all the cucumbers that you are going to get off of the plants so if you are a lazy gardener and you do not check your plants over every single day cucumbers are probably not the crop that you want to grow because they require constant picking now that downside about cucumber plants that if you let any of them mature and turn yellow the plant dies well we can also exploit this biological thing to our advantage we can trick the cucumber plants to producing insane amounts of fruit and that is as soon as the plants start producing cucumbers after they get a few inches long and about an inch wide pick all those cucumbers off if you do this if you keep pulling all of those fruits off before they get anywhere close to maturity the plant will freak out and say “Oh my goodness some predators must have found me i need to react by producing as many fruits as possible to have a chance that they miss one of them and something produces mature seed.” So they will react by going into hyper production mode and you will have more cucumbers than you know what to do with that is the beautiful thing about cucumbers the more you pick the more they give once our cucumber plants start producing flowers and fruits it is important that we check them over every single day that we run through the vines we lift them up and we make sure that we do not have any mature cucumbers hiding anywhere because even if we think we did a great job and we checked everything over to the greatest degree possible if we missed one cucumber hanging or hiding underneath all the vines and it turns yellow on us well then that plant produced mature seed it fulfilled its biological reason for existence and it will have a literal existential crisis and it will go into decline and we’ll need a new cucumber plant so we have to be really diligent when we grow cucumbers the better we check them over the more we pick the more we will get this is a reason why it is such a good idea to grow our cucumber plants vertically if we allow them to sprawl along the ground it’s really easy for the leaves and the vines to cover up a mature cucumber and we’ll miss it so when you let them grow along the ground it’s a lot harder to find those fruits when they grow vertically they are much easier to find so what does a mature cucumber look like well a mature cucumber is going to reach maximum thickness it’s going to be a fat boy and again that’s going to vary from cucumber variety to cucumber variety the best way you can tell is by the color you want to pick your cucumbers when they are a nice dark green because dark green cucumbers are immature cucumbers the more mature they get they will turn a lighter and lighter shade of green until they eventually turn a pale yellow once they turn that light green pale yellow well now it means that the end of life of that cucumber plant is coming soon you never want to see those colors on your cucumber plant in fact if you remember that cucumber vine I showed you that was trellising up my rain gutter that was one of the first cucumbers I planted for the season well I checked the bottom and I actually found two cucumbers at the bottom that were actually more mature than I wanted them to be now this one is a mature green color this is actually a little bit further along than I wanted them to be uh but this this one right here is literally starting to change to that almost yellow color if I were to have let this go for another 2 or 3 days that vine probably would have quit on me already so even when it’s a really young plant and it’s only been in ground for a few weeks old that is enough time for the plant to produce mature fruit so you really have to keep an eye out and be diligent otherwise your plants will die back on you trick number four to make your cucumber plants produce like crazy all season long is to succession plant them next to accidentally letting a cucumber mature and turn yellow on the vine the biggest mistake gardeners make is trying to keep the initial cucumber plants that they planted out in their garden in spring alive all summer long that’s a huge mistake cucumber plants even if you’re picking them early and often even if you’re fertilizing them very well they just don’t have long lifespans from the day you plant that seed you will be harvesting cucumbers off that vine in about 50 to 60 days and most of us have anywhere from a 180 to 250 day long growing season those vines are just going to quit on you they’re not really going to last more than 90 to 100 days in most conditions cucumber plants are just very finicky they are vulnerable to fungal diseases bacterial diseases insect pests they’re very vulnerable to the cold nights underneath 50° really damage them but heat over 90° also damages them they don’t like being in really strong direct sunlight throughout the middle of the day either that’s why you’ll often see your cucumber leaves wilting in the heat of the summer during midday when the sun is really strong they just are not longived plants and trying to fight your way through all of these problems and try and force them to limp along throughout an entire growing season there’s just no reason to do so so what I recommend everyone do is they start fresh cucumbers from seed every 6 weeks that will give you newer cucumber plants that will be nice and young and vigorous to replace your old cucumber plants and you can keep the cucumber train chugging along all summer long now it is very important to note that when I say start new cucumber plants every 6 weeks I don’t mean rip out your old cucumber plants and replace them with new cucumber plants every 6 weeks you need different locations strategically placed around your garden to put the new plants because what you want is you want your initial planting to be starting to produce mature cucumbers when your seedlings go out into your garden that way by the time these vines get old and quit on you well the new vines will be coming into their own and then you can rip them out and replace them with another planting so when your second planting gets tired and starts quitting on you that third planting will be coming into its own so if you put new plants out into your garden somewhere every 6 weeks you are always going to have cucumbers somewhere that are in their peak production stage that are growing healthfully and vigorously and they haven’t been damaged by things like powdery mildew or other fungal diseases just yet so please don’t try and keep those tired old vines alive the whole season it’s not going to work out for you you saw all the vines I have growing around my garden none of them are all that advanced and I still have yet a couple of young vines that are going to be ready to go in about another week or two as transplants you always want to have a couple of these things on deck ready to go into your garden that way you always have peak production of cucumbers all the way up until frost and trick number five is the thing that really brought my cucumber production into hyperdrive and that is to switch to gishious parthonocarpic varieties whoa hold on what does that mean cucumbers are part of the cucurbit family of plants that includes cucumbers squashes gourds and melons and when it comes to most plants within this family they are minutius menicious means that one single plant has separate male and female flowers so while each individual plant is self-fertile meaning it can pollinate itself there still needs to be pollination that crosses from the male flower over to the female flower and typically this is done with pollinators so most of your cucets your cucumbers your zucchini your squashes your gourds your pumpkins your melons whether they’re watermelons cantaloupe honeydew whatever they are going to produce an abundance of male flowers and a handful of female flowers the male flowers are going to be a standalone flower that only contains pollen and the female flowers are going to have a little baby fruit attached there’s going to be something like anywhere from two to four times more male flowers than female flowers in order to ensure pollination if that female flower does not get pollinated by a pollinator if there’s not pollen transfer or you didn’t manually come out with like a mascara brush and transfer the pollen from the male flower to the female flower it is going to turn yellow shrivel up and fall off so if you’ve ever seen little baby cucumbers or zucchini that are this big and they’re turning yellow on you and shriveling up and falling off that is because that fruit did not get pollinated so if you are growing typical minuticious varieties of cucumbers which is the overwhelming majority of them you are going to need good pollination otherwise you are not going to get good fruit set and even if you have lots of pollinator activity in your yard you still have to deal with the fact that most of the energy of that plant is going to go into producing male flowers so a minuticious variety of cucumbers can only produce so much some varieties of cucumbers are gicious which means they have a genetic trait that allows them to only produce female flowers so you can go out and you can get a gishious variety of cucumber and every flower is going to be female they will produce nothing but fruits they won’t waste any energy on male flowers now in most traditional ganicious varieties of cucumbers you still need to interplant minuticious varieties that have male flowers on them because you still need pollen transfer so something like every third plant will have to be minutius in order to get decent pollination because if all you grow are ganicious varieties of cucumbers you’ll only get female fruits and none of them will get pollinated and you will get zero fruit however there is a third type of cucumber and that is a ginius parthonocarpic cucumber parthnocarpy means that a fruit will persist even without pollination so for example all the figs that we grow they all have a genetic alil for parthonocarpy they don’t need any pollination from a male capra they can grow anywhere in total absence of pollination it’s not a GMO thing or anything like that it is a natural genetic trait and breeders have exploited that genetic trait to make ganicious parthonocarpic varieties of cucumbers these days and they’ve become incredibly popular so this means that the cucumber varieties that are both ganicious and parthonocarpic only produce female flowers and they don’t need any pollination at all so all of the flowers that they produce will contain a fruit and all of those fruits at least for the most part will persist and they will grow into mature fruits now it’s not going to be 100% because things like pests will get them stress can cause some flower drops so if it’s too hot or too humid or too wet or too dry you’ll lose some but the point is you can grow these varieties indoors in a greenhouse with no wind and no pollinators and they will produce incredible amounts of fruit with no energy wasted on producing male flowers and you don’t need to rely on any pollinators the cucumber plant that I’m showing you is a variety called Merlin and it is both ganicious and parthnocarpic it does not produce any male flowers so every single flower that is on this cucumber vine right here is a female flower and the production of this variety is absolutely radical you see that is a female flower it has a baby fruit attached and because we don’t need pollination as long as the weather stays agreeable every single one of these cucumber flowers will turn into a mature fruit so there is no energy at all wasted on male flowers there is no need for pollinators because they will persist and what is really cool about these fruits that grow on these ganicious parthnocarpic varieties is if you don’t grow any Menicious varieties next to them look at that all of these are female flowers they’re all going to turn into mature cucumbers isn’t that crazy uh anyway if you don’t grow any male flowers anywhere near them and they grow in total absence of pollination they will be seedless this is the Merlin cucumber that I showed you earlier in this video that I almost missed and allowed to overmature well I’ve been taking bites off of it in between takes filming this and all of the varieties of cucumbers that I’m growing this year are gishious and parthnocarpic i don’t have any male cucumber flowers anywhere in my yard and garden this year so that means that virtually all of my cucumbers unless I get some kind of genetic mishap where a few males are produced they’re all going to be parthonocarpic and they’re not going to have any seeds so if I cut into this and don’t worry this is a special knife that you can actually run across your skin it’s one of those as seen on TV knives well you see these these endocarps are hollow there are no seeds produced in any of these because they weren’t fertilized they weren’t pollinated so we have here a completely seedless cucumber now what’s amazing is when you let a cucumber get too mature like this they often turn bitter but these parthonocarpic ganicious varieties they don’t get pollinated they stay seedless and they resist bittering they’re also almost all burpless as well so even when they get more mature than you want them to be they still taste really good i mean just listen listen to how crispy and crunchy this is just fantastic now before you say “Gee thanks for telling us now i already bought my seeds for all my cucumbers for the year so you’re way too late.” I actually did make a video about this 3 months ago prior to everybody buying their seeds because I wanted to get this information out there before everyone made their seed purchases but unfortunately gardening interest is just a lot lower that time of year it’s completely understandable so I wanted to reiterate the point in this video right here now that being said as we already discussed in this video we should be starting new cucumber seeds every six weeks anyway so even though we’re technically in the heart of the growing season almost all of you watching this have more than enough time to start at least another two to four plantings of cucumbers and grow all the way to September or October or you folks in warmer climates maybe even all the way until Thanksgiving or Christmas so it is not too late to go out and buy seeds and for your convenience here is a list of different parthnocarpic varieties of cucumbers bait Alpha Chelsea Prize China Jade County Fair Crispy Crunchy Diamont Diva Excelsier H19 Little Leaf Isnik Katrina Merlin Party Time Piccolino Socrates Sweet Success Tasty Jade and Tyra now this is by no means a complete list but it’s a pretty good list to get you started and for your convenience I will also place some links down in the video description to these seed varieties so if you want to give them a try well I can make things easy for you and that right there are my tricks to making cucumber plants produce nonstop throughout the season these are not casual little tricks these are not little clickbaity things these things actually work i have been implementing these things throughout the states of New Jersey Pennsylvania and North Carolina for almost the last 15 years of my life i’ve tested these things in all different climates and they work like gang busters they have revolutionized my cucumber growing game and I know that if you implement these tips you will see a tremendous increase in your cucumber production so everybody I sure hope you found this video helpful if you did please make sure you hit that like button subscribe to the channel and please ring that notification bell so you’re notified when I release more videos like these again for any of the products that I featured in this video like the trellising items or any of the fertilizers or the cucumber seeds I placed links down in the video description for your convenience so you can find them for everything else I use in real life to grow anything in my vegetable garden all of those products are linked in my Amazon storefront in the video description so expand the video description click on the Amazon storefront link and you’ll see everything I use in real life and while you’re down there please also check out my Spreadshop for custom merch if you want to support my channel thank you all so much for watching and I hope to see all of you again on the next video wow Dale do you see what I see look at this gator head buddy look at that gator look at him just hanging out let’s see if we can say hi to him he’s not very big but still that’s a gator so cool this is why you don’t want to bring your small dogs around the ponds in North Carolina all right buddy i think that’s close enough let’s get back to our walk i’m getting attacked by biting yellow flies because we’re too close to the pond but other than that it’s actually a pretty nice day to go for a walk with your best buddy Dale and go gator sighting