They have no choice but to prune suckers.Ī study looking at field grown cucumbers found that unpruned plants produced a higher total number of fruits, length, diameter and weight of fruits, compared to single stem pruning.
In such a situation, not pruning suckers would produce a big mess of interlaced vines. To manage the vines they are grown vertically, usually one vine per vertical string. If you watch some of these videos you will notice that they are growing cucumbers in a greenhouse, or plastic shelter which has limited space to let the vine roam along the ground. Such sites also make claims for higher yield and less disease, but never actually show any evidence to support these claims. There is lots of advice online and on YouTube that says you should sucker cucumbers. To remove a sucker, simply grab it and pinch it off, or cut it off, just like a tomato sucker. The arrow in the above picture points to a sucker. Before long you have two main stems both of which produce more nodes, more flowers and more main stems.
If this sucker is allowed to grow it produces a side branch which starts behaving just like the main stem. Each node produces the main stem, a tendril used to wrap around things, a flower and a sucker. Pruning Cucumbers – Will It Produce a Higher Yield?Ĭucumbers are vines just like tomatoes and they grow in a very similar fashion.
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