Hello everyone. My first post/questions. I'm growing cucumbers right now. I'm about 30 days in and the plants 5-5 feet tall and have about 15 flowers per plant. Depending on the variety (Muncher and Burpee burpless hybrid), some have all female or mostly male flowers (has been about 90F everyday here lately). (all of them have at-least 1 female flower, but 2 of the plants have only female lowers. I think 2 of the Burpee Burpless Hybrids are the ones with all female flowers, 15+ on one plant that's only about 4.5ft tall maybe shorter).
Anyways, I was wondering if cucumbers will grow from the same node where a previous cucumber was picked from. Like if a cucumber gets to full size and is picked, will a new cucumber grow there ever again?...
(or if a flower is picked?... like if the plant has all male flowers from heat, then when it cools down can the flower be plucked off for the chance of a new flower growing (hopefully female)?
One of the reasons I'm asking is because I'm growing my cucumbers vertical and they're already almost 6ft tall (max for my garden) and I'm thinking about topping the plant when it gets to 6ft, but I don't want to do that if there won't be any new flowers from below the new growth.
Sorry for all the questions in one post..., but I was also wondering if there's a way to identify the variety of the cucumber plants by their cucumbers. One variety is growing lighter green ones with them little spikes and the other is growing darker cucumbers that don't have the spikes (I'm assuming the burpless ones are the lighter in color, because they have thinner looking skin and a LOT of female flowers, which is common with the variety).
