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Mon, Aug 25, 14 at 13:24
| So I was growing Marketmoore cucumbers this year in my garden. I harvested a few larger ones earlier in the season and there were no seed kernels in the seeds. I figured, okay, I harvested them too early and I'll leave a bunch later in the season to fully develop. Some months later, the cucumber plants have died back and we have quite a few cucumbers that have thick, hard veiny rinds and I figure it's time to start seed saving. So I cut a bunch open and scoop the seeds out and again, about 80% or more of the seeds are paper thin with no kernels in them. Any ideas on what would cause this? Could it be a Magnesium problem? I know Florida soils tend to have low levels of this mineral in particular. |
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| Lack of pollination. |
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| Maybe a seedless cuke instead of Marketmoore? |
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| I had very late development of the hard seed coat on my cukes this year, and suspect it was weather dependent. The temps varied little from day to night, and we had numerous showers and it was like growing in a greenhouse. Some of the fruits I nearly discarded because of their size turned out to be quite palatable yet, with small, tender seeds and lacking the tough kernels. If your marketmores (and it's a variety I grow every year along with my picklers) were still green, they were immature. A ripe cuke goes yellow. Poor pollination on a marketmore would have yielded no or misshapen fruit, not one with no seed coat. |
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