How to Prune Your Cucumber Plant

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Are you thinking of growing your cucumbers vertically? Well, watch and learn the proper techniques on pruning cucumber plants as they grow. Learn more by visiting JohnnySeeds.com!

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thanks, very good explained!!

What type of seeds did you use

kindly please explain why we need to remove the growth point?

Thanks I needed this

Help! my cucumbers plant are beautiful, but all they are doing is flowering, no fruit, do you have any tips?

Excellent video; both concise and precise.

Could not figure out why last year my cuke plants kept growing and growing but not producing fruit. Hope this does the trick. Thanks so much!

I should have watched this before I planted my slicing and pickling cukes. It's a pretty tangled network of vines but they're producing like gangbusters. I'll definitely try this next year.

Does this make cuke plants less productive?

Thanks for the valuable tip just wondering what is surround the white material you covered the plant with

Never ever prune or picking your cucumber using pruners or scissors. They'll spread disease like wildfire especially when the weather is humid. I had a very bad experience pruning my cucumber and found that its more damaging than not pruning. If they don't find the treillis simply tie a rope on them to get them back on track. I wouldn't even dare to suggest cut the leaves.

thank you! !

Is there a reason to prune?

Good information, I did not know that cucumbers could be pruned. Gretchen

Why prune? Won't you get more if you let them run wild?

I prune and grow my tomatoes this way but never cukes. I assume you can then grow closer together ? Say about a foot apart?

Thank you for the excellent presentation on how to prune the cucumber. I'm not sure how much this will help me this year, but I'm going to try it on a couple of my vines to slow down their growth and re-direct the vines energy to blossom and fruit production.

Growth point is called a sucker. First time I've ever heard it called a growth point

healthy study ;)

Taking away the growth points, wouldn't that take away more cucumbers in the coming weeks? And, as long as I'm harvesting the cucumbers in a timely fashion, when they're about 6"-8" long, wouldn't that be encouraging growth to other smaller cucumbers, anyway? I'm a rookie at this... so just give me the facts, please :)

Also, after the fruit is harvested from one node, should I prune the leaf and tendril, too? Thanks...