Crystal lemon cucumber flowers?

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• Pete.8 Posts: 11,340

  May 2020

  My understanding - which may be incorrect... is that greenhouse varieties are usually F1 (so a hybrid of 2 plants) and they usually produce only female flowers with the fruits and male flowers are not needed.
  Sometimes a male flower will appear on an F1 plant and if this male flower then pollinates female flowers on the same plant, the resulting fruits will be bitter. So male flowers should be removed if they appear on an F1 cucumber.
  
  For non-F1 varieties, as far as I know, the male flowers need to be left on the plant so that female flowers get pollinated. If you remove the male flowers, the females won't get pollinated and you'll get nowt.
  From what I've read the variety you have is not an F1 Hybrid, so you can leave the boys alone.
  But - That's only my thoughts...
  I only grow F1 cucumbers in the greenhouse.

  
  Billericay - Essex
  
  Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
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• Nollie Posts: 7,529

  May 2020

  I grow Crystal Lemon outside and never remove male flowers, they are usually sweet (if seedy) so that backs up Pete’s theory.

  Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.

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• Pete.8 Posts: 11,340

  May 2020

  I feel a Nobel prize on the way... 😂

  
  Billericay - Essex
  
  Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
  Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

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