Iechris's Cucumber 'Lemon'
Cucumis sativus

Saw a number of blooms on the lemon cukes today and they are definitely growing. I helped one go up the trellis a bit more, not sure if it was happy about that or not!

I was working with the cucumbers today, trying to get them to climb the stake I want them to climb, when I noticed an open bloom on one plant. I also saw buds on several of the other plants. I hope that they aren’t so crowded that I don’t get any cucumbers and I hope my rigged up teepee will be enough of a support to at least get some cukes.

The cucumbers are growing and I’ve seen them sending out their first little climbing tendriles, so I knew it was way past time to try to build a trellis. I was thinking of using a tomato teepee style cage set upside down, but they seemed too big for my pot. I also wanted to thin the cucumber plants, but when I tried to dig in, there were WAY too many roots already. So, I decided to work with what I had.

I have 5 plants in the pot, so I took 5 bamboo stakes and stuck them around the edge of the pot, then tied them together up at the top to for a sort of teepee. I then worked at getting the plants each on their own stake. One plant I was able to wrap a tendrile around the stake and another the plant is lying along the stake, so I figure those are good. Two others I loosely tied to the stake and hope the tendriles do their thing and latch on to the stake soon.

I’m sure I have way too many plants in the pot, but I’m hoping I get some sort of harvest.

The first true leaves are showing on at least one of the sprouts so far with a few others showing leaves that haven’t opened yet. I think in two weeks, after I’m back from vacation I’ll have to work on trying to figure out how to trellis these plants.

I saw the first couple of sprouts in the lemon cucumber container today.