By gisette
Outdoor Cucumbers 2011
Submitted on Fri, 2011/05/13 - 3:32pm
Last updated on Sun, 2011/09/11 - 11:07am
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Planted out my summer cukes today - 2.5 week seedlings. Hope it's warm enough for this set.
Also moved my 8 week tendergreen cuke outside, from the living room cucumber group. Can pick male flowers and bring them inside to use... I shouldn't have changed its pot, tho - the new pot really isn't enough larger than the previous pot to warrant transplant upset.
20110518: planted two white wonder cucumber seeds between the pearl and tendergreen, as backup. The little transplants are looking mighty rain-battered, and one's been nibbled.
? - 20110526: have planted a number of replacement pearl cucumber seeds...
20110626: planted another round of replacement pearl and white wonder cucumber seeds... out of the new creek bed. 
Harvests:
tendergreen cuke (indoor/outdoor): 22 (first 6/23 age 13.5 weeks, last ~8/18, and plant removed)
Japanese cukes (2 plants) : 48 (first 6/27, age 9 weeks) (both removed 9/10)
Korean cuke : 25 (first 6/27, age 9 weeks) (removed around 9/1)
Sun, 2011/05/29 - 1:00pm
#2
Dunno if it's the varieties, or that particular piece of ground, but not having any luck with the place I planted the tendergreen and pearl and white wonder cukes. One came up a couple days ago, and by today, was nibbled to death. Bunch of other seeds simply haven't appeared... May stop replanting there for a month, or leave it to bush beans instead.
The Japanese and Korean cukes are doing quite well, starting to take off with warmer weather. I dunno if the tendergreen in the pot will bear much - doesn't have much root room.
Mon, 2011/05/30 - 1:16pm
#3
Sorry to hear about your cuc seeds. A couple of mine got snipped, too. They seem to take a long time to get started and then take off! Gonna take pix of everything today now that the garden is as planted as it is going to get and it is too hot to do anything else (humid 94 F here today).
Beth
Sun, 2011/06/05 - 9:06pm
#4
A couple baby cukes are up and surviving so far - fingers crossed. Not sure, but they may be one pearl and one white wonder - Burpee's 100th anniversary seeds or something. The weather which turned so surprisingly hot last week, reversed on Wednesday and got stunningly beautiful - dry, ~75 degree daytime high, 55 nights - downright Septumbral. The cool-weather Korean cuke is loving it. The others are OK.
Sun, 2011/06/12 - 2:54pm
#5
Well, the Nth group of replacement white cuke seedlings got trampled by siding workmen, then washed away in my new creek bed formed by the siding project removing the gutters. But! The wonderful siding guys saved the big cukes! And the pea/bean trellis. And the peppers - well, a few fruit broke off. But it's pretty amazing how much of the more mature plants they saved. There is not much room to work in that corridor - nice guys!
First fruit formed at last on the indoor/outdoor tendergreen indoor/outdoor cuke.
Can't even try to replant the new creek bed (white cukes and bush beans) until the gutters are replaced. There is normally a gutter drain into that tray propped on a rock to the left of the dark corridor.
I've only seen (and killed) 2 cucumber beetles yet. Lots of leaf holes from little grasshoppers, tho (also KOS). Eventually, I think the little grasshoppers get bigger and go eat elsewhere.
Sun, 2011/06/19 - 9:42pm
#6
Cukes soon - yummm.... Male and female flowers on the three bigger plants, one cuke almost ripe on the tendergreen. At last... It sure took that plant a long time to set fruit. Clearly a summertime-only variety.
Sun, 2011/06/26 - 3:49pm
#7
All cukes in production - yay! 
Harvested 3 tendergreen cukes so far. As expected, the early indoor/outdoor cuke was kinda useless for early fruit production - it beat the much-younger plants to fruiting by maybe a week, and 4 fruits (because they're small). But we enjoyed em!
Picasa is not coughing up my pictures atm, and it's a pain to do them by hand... Maybe it'll work better later in the evening.
Edit: No, it still doesn't work. It's not the lightboxer, it's Google Picasa not reporting the full list of latest pictures.
Sun, 2011/07/03 - 1:47pm
#8
9 cukes harvested this week, at least one from each plant (not counting 1-week seedlings...) Yum. 
The Korean cuke is just as productive outside. Dunno how long the tendergreen will keep going - that's a small pot for a big plant.
Sun, 2011/07/10 - 1:46pm
#9
A dozen cukes harvested this week. The plants were looking unhappy, though, so dosed with Miracid. They like that! Got a thunderstorm, too, which perked them up. The tendergreen cuke is way too large for its little pot, and too large to transplant. But even that perked up with some Miracid.
Sun, 2011/07/17 - 2:05pm
#10
Another week, another 10 cukes. Having trouble with the bamboo trellises, tho. (All of them, but the cucumber trellis is particularly broken.) Lost one of the young white cukes to insects.
The cucumber transplants were visibly bigger in the first couple days they were out. And then it started to rain... And then some bugs showed up. The pearl and tendergreen transplants didn't survive - put out new white wonder and pearl cuke seeds in that space. The potted indoor/outdoor tendergreen cuke looks... OK. Not dying, and keeps putting out plenty of male flowers.