(From this past summer but wanted to try and figure out the issue before the coming season!). My spacemaster cucumbers grew out spherical, with large white bulges on the bottom of each. Over-watering, under-pollinated, something else?
It was ‘productive’ all summer until late season powdery mildew took it down. As in it kept growing a bunch of these none of the cucumbers grew elongated or without the big white bulges. 5gal grow bags on deck/patio, this was my only spacemaster cuke plant and I had 1 cucamelon (sour gherkin) and 1 armenian cuke plant next to it, each in their own 5gal grow bags. Those varieties grew just fine/were productive. First year in this place, last year at my last place (same city) I also grew 1 spacemaster plant but it was in a 5gal plastic pot instead of a grow bag. The cucumbers on that grew properly/elongated but it was not very productive
TIA for any ideas!
by Special-Recording
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Are they the lemon variety of cucumber? Those form balls.
In my experience, this appears to be poor pollination. You need to attract more bees. I set up a bee watering station and it fixed it. I just used an old pie tin with a layer of pebbles and kept it filled it up just about level with the pebbles. I put it in the middle of my raised bed.