male flowers on cucumber plants

It does depend on the variety. I only ever grown F1 all female cucumbers these days, which just don't produce any male flowers. In the old days when I grew a variety called Telegraph you had to remove the males because once a single fruit got pollinated the whole plant produced bitter fruit and the plant was useless from then onwards.

Outdoor varieties need to be pollinated otherwise they don't produce fruit.

Let us know the variety name Mick

 

Telegraph are the ones I am growing, and I live in hope that I have managed to get all of the male flowers before any fruits got pollinated - I go round them daily and pick off the male flowers, and get plenty of them too!

 

With hindsight, definitely - again my lack of experience shows

Can you recommend any particular variety?

I have to add that I am not at all disappointed, in fact as I am watching at least three more cues appearing, I am constantly amazed that I have managed to give mother nature what is needed to get fruit!

I also have to add, not only on the cucumber front, that I am grateful for the support and advice received on this very forum

 

Its even easier for me at the moment, as all six plants are still standing down by the French doors at the back of the living room! Until our new fences go up, I cannot plant out my border plants, and until they go out I don't have room for the cucumbers.

The good bit of that is that I get to watch the cues growing pretty much all the time.