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Post by carolann on Dec 3, 2009 9:57:11 GMT
Has anyone grown Cucumbers from saved seed please.
I had 2 wonderful plants given me this year from a
packet for children to grow and I had some corkers off
both plants very tasty they where, anyway I have
saved some seed off 1 of
them and thought I would give it a go next year if anyone
would like some I have some to spare just PM me with your
address's and they will be on their way.
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Post by Tig on Dec 3, 2009 13:19:52 GMT
I've never tried this Carolann - but as you know I am up for anything ;D
pm on its way ....
x Tig
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Post by Jasmine on Dec 3, 2009 13:25:19 GMT
I've never thought about trying cucumbers from saved seed. I'm always quite surprised at the cost of cucumber seed though so it is a brilliant idea. ;D
PM sent. ;D
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Post by owdboggy on Dec 3, 2009 21:38:04 GMT
Usually Cucumbers do not set seed as they are used unfertilised or from all female plants. If you have allowed them to be fertilised then the seed should be ok.
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Post by carolann on Dec 4, 2009 8:43:42 GMT
I'm not sure on that one OB but there was lots of seed
inside it so it will be fun seeing what happens. Anyone
else want a go I still have some seeds left.
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Post by Cheerypeabrain on Dec 15, 2009 19:30:37 GMT
if they're F1 varieties I don't think that they'll be fertile...I read that somewhere...could be wrong..... ;D
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Post by Dr Bill on Dec 27, 2009 10:19:49 GMT
if they're F1 varieties I don't think that they'll be fertile...I read that somewhere...could be wrong..... ;D They may be fertile but not likely to come true to type |
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Post by Rosefriend on Dec 27, 2009 10:49:18 GMT
This tip may help....
In summer I was at our favourite GC, actually Missy was on holiday with us, and Olaf of "Mystery Rose" fame closed the place for lunch and invited us behind the scenes to his private garden - an honour indeed - think it was only because Missy was with us actually......
Anyway he was trialling some tomatoes for a firm and he always does them outside - the rougher the treatment, the better. We were allowed to try a couple and I am going to get one of them in 2010 - it was a tomato and a half ...so seeds available from me end of next year.
Anyway, I digress....we were chatting and he was saying that his Mum had already got some seeds from the ones that were necessary and I asked about F1's. He said that "yes, it is true that F1's don't always come true but with things like peppers/chillies/cucumbers and tomatoes if the seeds from the first fruit were taken, there was over a 90-95% chance that the seeds would be true"!! He felt that actually there could be a 99% chance but obviously one never knew.
I reckon it is worth a try!!!
RF
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Post by Ladygardener on Dec 28, 2009 11:54:52 GMT
Sounds like it's well worth a try then Rf.  |
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Post by pdblake on Jan 5, 2010 9:11:57 GMT
I've not been around for a while but I tried growing cucs from saved seed last year with not much luck.
Looking at OB's post though they might not have been fertilised.
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Post by Chuckles on Jan 5, 2010 12:19:39 GMT
I've saved seed before from a plant I was given, a bush cuc which had lovely small fruit, didn't have much luck with it though. I did get some germination and flowers and a few fruit but they never got to the stage where they were edable, maybe it was just a bad growing year. Just found this about saving seeds, scroll right to the bottom www.realseeds.co.uk/cucumbers.html |
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