Another cucumber question

Another cucumber question please. I know with tomatoes you nip off the little shoots growing between the thicker stems (not sure if that is the correct term) do I have to nip of these little ones that are growing on this cucumber plant, they do look more like they are going to flower and so i did think that that was where it would fruit from? But it's not a terribly big plant yet so didnt think the fruit side would develop as yet? ....apologies for being gormless. Thanks in advance ATTACH=full]139701[/ATTACH]

 

What variety are you growing? If an all female variety then NO! if not, then just take out the male flowering buds (unless of course you like bitter cucs), someone will be along to explain in more detail, I know the difference between male and female but because I hate cucumber I don't really pay much attention to them (only grow them for the other half).

 

Hiya @Vince thank you so much for your reply, unfortunately I so t know what kind they are, some kind gent gave plants away a couple of weeks into lockdown but just said lunchbox cucumbers.

 

The growths are the flowers.
On my phone so can't see clearly.

Male flowers are a flower bud on a thin stem, females have a slightly knobbly bulge behind the flower bud.

 

Looking again I'm not totally convinced that is a cucumber.

 

Yeah they were marrows when I was young.

 

Oh my, so I may have to see what grows then Haha the little sign the guy had in front said the plants were sweetcorn and lunchbox cucumber, so I took the cucumber one. Thanks so much @pete and @JWK

 

Maybe he has a larger lunch box than most of us.

 

@pete ....erm now I'm curious maybe next time I see him in his garden I will ask him

 

Aren't most courgettes bush plants?

It looks a bit trailing to me, could it be a squash?

 

Don't look like any of my Courgettes, I have a few growing in the greenhouse, not a cucamelon....... TRIFFID?

 

Too big for a cucamelon.

 

Oh my days I'm well out of my depth now I've never heard of a cucumelon....thank goodness for google I shall go look at those