Bitter Cucumbers????

[Bluemchen]

Why have my cucumbers gone bitter?

I have harvested a few from the same plants and they have been fine. But the last two have been bitter to taste and I don't understand why. The only change I've made is to add a liquid seaweed feed in weekly.

Any experience of how to remedy this

Ta ta.

[SMS6]

Did you by any chance leave any male flowers on? I have read that this causes bitter cuces

[NOG]

#they are sweeter if you pick them smaller....the bigger the fruit the more bitter they are.

[Alastair]

Hi Bluemchen,

I had problems with my cucumbers last year which I was told was down to insufficient watering. As the plants get bigger so the more water they need, which is sometimes easy to forget!

I grow the F1 hybrid types which are supposed to have no male flowers, so the problems of bitter cucumbers due to the presence should not arise. I have to say that (so far) the extra watering seems to have made all the difference, and I have not had one bitter cucumber. Tempting fate here I know!!

Good luck with the rest of the seasons cucumbers