Male & Female Cucumbers

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    Wrightyathome Apprentice Gardener

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    I have grown cucumbers for the first time this year, they are coming along nicely but I do not know if they are male & female or all female how can I tell the make is "Marketmore?
     
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    Marketmore has both male and female flowers but is usually grown as an outdoor cucumber and so needs the male flowers left on to pollenate
     
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    I just looked up "marketmore" on google, it doesn't say that it is female only, so I would assume it is male/female.

    The way to tell the difference between a male and female flower is easy, a female flower has a tiny cucmber at the base of the yellow flower, a male flower is just a flower.


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