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Post by lynnee on Jun 9, 2022 19:48:43 GMT -5
Today I decided to rewrap the Mini Munch vine, to save height in the AG. Some of the healthy leaves ended up growing upside down, so I hope the plant will tolerate this. The plant has produced about 10 3" cukes so far. There are two trellises now, instead of three, and I lowered the lights.  Careful as I was, I may have bent and weakened a spot on the main stem near the growing tip. Hopefully the support of a soft tie will be all it needs.   |
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Post by Sher on Jun 9, 2022 22:03:36 GMT -5
They look so tidy now. I wonder if the leaves will reorient themselves.
It will be fun to watch!
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Post by lynnee on Jun 10, 2022 17:26:29 GMT -5
They look so tidy now. I wonder if the leaves will reorient themselves. It will be fun to watch!
The very next day!   |
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Post by Sher on Jun 10, 2022 17:58:49 GMT -5
That was FAST!  |
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Post by areyoukittenme on Jun 11, 2022 0:36:01 GMT -5
Yay for your speedy cukes!
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Post by lynnee on Jun 17, 2022 0:52:55 GMT -5
Day 58. The cucumber vine is starting its second trip around the trellis. The arrow indicates the growing tip. There are lots of developing cukes on the vine, and the 3" cukes taste great!  |
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Post by Sher on Jun 17, 2022 8:42:33 GMT -5
Wonderful!!!
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Post by Shawn on Jun 18, 2022 3:34:52 GMT -5
It's nice the way you are training them on the trellis
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Post by lynnee on Jun 20, 2022 18:03:58 GMT -5
When I wasn't paying attention, the Mini Munch developed a mottled recent leaf, and yellow areas where some of the developing cukes joined their stems. I removed most of the little cukes with the problem, because yellow areas in the stems between anything and the main vine signal that the plant is shutting the stems down. I kept two of the cukes that were only beginning to develop the yellowing It remains to be seen whether they will mature completely--they have both grown some. I'm really curious as to how they will taste! I think that I got the nutrient balance messed up, so that the vine needed CalMag, and was perhaps suffering from nutrient lockout. Anyway, after an R&R, everything on the plant looks fine, and I harvested a delicious 4" cuke this morning,   |
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Post by lynnee on Jun 21, 2022 16:38:52 GMT -5
The cuke on the left isn't growing any more. It has been girdled in yellow at the stem. In the future, if I see any more cukes with yellow at the stems, I'll remove them immediately.  |
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Post by areyoukittenme on Jun 21, 2022 16:45:30 GMT -5
Here's hoping the CalMag does the trick for future cukes!
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Post by lynnee on Jun 27, 2022 11:23:31 GMT -5
Day 69 The Mini Munch continues to be very willing to twine around the trellis. I'll probably add a third trellis before long--the vine needs the posts to keep it going along outside the trellis hoops. Yesterday I removed a branch that was growing into the light, and several small developing cukes that were yellowing at the stems. I also harvested a nice 5" cuke. I'm holding this plant to a single vine. The circle indicates the growing tip. Tomato clips work well to train the vine.   |
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Post by lynnee on Jun 30, 2022 16:12:37 GMT -5
The cuke continues to be willing to circle around the Bounty trellis.  Front view, with small, harvestable cukes.  Back view, with growing tip.  |
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Post by scarfguy on Jun 30, 2022 16:34:16 GMT -5
The cuke on the left isn't growing any more. It has been girdled in yellow at the stem. In the future, if I see any more cukes with yellow at the stems, I'll remove them immediately.
I'm not sure that you should be so quick to remove those cukes that are showing yellowing. My iznik has had many small cukes that show this as they develop. As I remove the mature ones, many of these begin to grow again. It seems like the plant starts more fruit than it can handle at one time. As you remove the mature ones, it turns its attention to the ones that it abandoned...
... all I know is that I've been harvesting cucumbers daily for the last month and I'm sick of cucumbers! I've got a half dozen jars of pickles in the fridge and I've been giving them away to the neighbors! I'm sure soon the bounty will turn to drought.
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Post by lynnee on Jun 30, 2022 16:59:15 GMT -5
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Post by scarfguy on Jun 30, 2022 18:00:47 GMT -5
On the Iznik seed description, it says they are best harvested between 3 and 5 inches and grow bitter if left to grow larger.
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Post by scarfguy on Jun 30, 2022 18:31:37 GMT -5
I was told by shawn I need to learn how to use an image repository. So here is my attempt. I hope you don't mind this thread being an image upload test for me. This is today's cucumber harvest. Did this image work:
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Post by lynnee on Jun 30, 2022 21:44:11 GMT -5
Yesss, scarfguy ! I love your cucumbers photo!  I never tire of cucumbers, so could you tell me more about your iznik seeds? Where you got them? How are you handling the iznik vine, given that the plant grew so tall so fast? Is it still sharing the Bounty? |
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Post by Shawn on Jul 1, 2022 3:18:22 GMT -5
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Post by scarfguy on Jul 1, 2022 10:40:19 GMT -5
My Iznik adventure:
So my Iznik seeds came from Totally Tomatoes. The H-19 little leaf came from David's Garden Seeds.
The Iznik seeds germinated very quickly and 100% (3 for 3)
I planted both seeds in a harvest XL. Turned out to be way too small. No more root room. Since I had overhead lights, I just let the Iznik grow wild. It quickly grew around the light hood and reached for the overhead lighting. I trimmed a couple of the side branches as that is what I read to do but that didn't do anything but cause the first few leaves to wilt and the little cukes to dry up. So I just let it branch. Having limited space, the branching allowed it to be more compact I think. I helped it a bit to find the netting and get a grip and continued to trim branches as they out ran the space.
At this point, it's looking really ratty, its about at the end of its life although it is still growing a few more fruit. The leaves look terrible. As it matured, I supplimented the aerogarden nutes with a bit more "P and K" (KoolBloom 0-10-10).
The Iznik is very productive. Although the H-19 with the little leaves is a much more manageable cucumber, it had lots and lots of flowers but only produced a few cucumbers.
My next attempt will be to use the bowl of my farm 12 by itself for the large root space. I'll just set the bowl on the shelf, run the pump with a separate timer, and lower my overhead lighting to keep it close to the growth.
Here's some current pics. You can see the growing tip has ventured above the overhead lighting and is even fattening up a cuke in the dark above the lighting.
Of all of the gardens I've grown so far, I must say this has been the most fun! Cucumber grow very fast and their movements are very dynamic. *** it's almost like they are alive! *** 
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