I am growing a Garden Sweet Burpless Cucumber (seeds from Burpee) and I'm wondering if someone could help me with pruning the flowers.

For some reason, I haven't seen any male flowers on the main vine... only female ones (with the fruit on its back). It's beginning to flower one by one but with no male flowers to pollinate... The side vines aren't developed with no other male flowers in sight. Should I pick these female flowers off until I see at least one male flower?

I heard that there are seedless varieties with mostly female flowers that fruit on its own (don't really understand how that works...) but i am not sure if that's the case with this one.

if someone has any advice with this variety or just cucumbers in general... that would be great.

thanks!

You are referring to parthenocarpic varieties. They don't need pollinated to set fruit. I don't think the one you are growing is parthenocarpic though. And taking off the female flowers won't do much of anything. They will fall off on their own if they aren't pollinated.

Rodney

I don't know if your variety is one of these.