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I am growing Burpless Tasty Green as usual in my solartunnel this year, and am thinking of also growing Marketmore. As both these have male and female flowers, I was wondering if there is any risk that they will cross-pollinate and produce bitter fruit? Would a cucumber with only female flowers be better or could this be affected likewise? Any advice and experience would be much appreciated!

Since every cucumber I have grown comes with the recommendation that you pick off male flowers as any polination leads to bitterness, I doubt cross-polination would be more bitter!

Both types being all female would probably be better unless you are ok with checking twice a day to remove male flowers, but given you are already growing a standard hetero plant - I doubt a second will add significantly to the workload.

Terry

Even all female cukes have male flowers if they are stressed severly. I wouldn't have thought it was a problem

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