Zone 7b. My cucumbers are short and kind of round, almost look like limes. Pollination issue? Any help is greatly appreciated. The plants also are not vining like they usually do.
Zone 3a (Northern ND) My cucumber vines are about forearm length and no buds yet. Tomatoes just under knee high. Dandelions are doing awesome though.
That doesn’t sound like a bug issue to me, so I’m going to suggest that you’re consistent on the watering (An inch per week, and more if it’s REALLY hot right now in Zone 7) and that you’re fertilizing them with a balanced (10-10-10 or 20-20-20) fertilizer. Don’t over-do it on pure nitrogen as that will give you lots of foliage and less or even no fruit.
There are some cukes that DO produce round fruit - you’re certain of the variety you planted? (Just asking! It happens!) Do you know the variety? That may help me, too. They’re a lot of hybrids out there for cukes, now.
Has your weather been especially hot and dry? If so, the consistent watering and fertilizing should help with better production all the way around.
I’m assuming they’re in full sun? Well draining soil? If it doesn’t drain well, don’t overdo it on the watering, then. If you ARE over-watering and it’s not well drained and you’re not fertilizing, that could be the culprit, too.
Is that complicated enough? LOL! I mean, it’s just a cucumber for Pete’s Sake! They should be pretty easy to grow. I’m just covering all the angles, here. ;)
Had to replant all the backdoor garden due to all the Spring rains. The cukes and tomatoes are beginning to poke out of the ground but nothing else. The rains rotted the pecans and the honeysuckle has disappeared.
Found what became of my blackberries from a hundred years ago the contractor got rid of after being told not to touch them. Got some planters to take some cuttings so crossing fingers, toes and eyes. All the bushes bought from the nursery immediately died every time. Highly suspect my garden is on top of the garbage pile from the house remodel. Been clearing out from the shed to maybe move it there.
Happy to find wild mouse melons behind the shed. Goal this year, and I mean it this time..., is to get the yard in shape. Of course, just mowing put my knee in a brace.