How To Prune Cucumber Plants, Grow Cucumbers NOT Leaves!
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- Опубліковано 3 чер 2024
- Don't let your cucumber plants waste energy growing leaves, prune your cucumbers so you can get earlier and quicker ripening cucumber harvests.
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Congrats on 1 million subs! Who would’ve thought that so many years ago, the simple act of removing a chunk of lawn and planting some food in its place would turn into this? You’re truly living the dream, James! 👏
Thanks bro that means a lot! Yeah it’s come a long way and it’s taken a good amount of time and effort but I’m happy I finally reached the milestone, and I’m sure you will be at a million before you know it. ❤️😁
@@jamesprigioni the journey is the fun part! Keep growing on!
I try to remind myself that everyday but I still struggle to truly enjoy it because I get too focused on my goals. Def working on it though ❤️😁
@@jamesprigioni I know the feeling. It is a problem with goal-oriented people. We are always moving on to the next big thing, and we often miss out on appreciating the progress. I’m fortunate that here in NC, I can still garden in the winter, so I can appreciate it more since I don’t have to worry about pests, irrigation and all those other tasks. In the summer, there is so much to do that it is hard to admire the progress. I have to try and force myself to appreciate the progress more. I’m as much a work in progress as my garden.
Well deserved James, as you and the Boss Tuck are a wealth of knowledge as well as Inspiration.
Thanks for the BEST vid on Cucumbers, I spent a couple of hours sorting out my cucumber mess thanks to you and the Boss ☺️
This video is perfect timing for me first time growing cucumbers
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Me too, let's get it! Good luck brotha🤙
Same!!!
@@jamesprigioni will the suckers of cucumbers root as the suckers of tomato plants do
It's the first time I've grown cucumbers by myself without my grandmother in a long time. I finally have a garden space that absolutely humongous and I am going to go ham I've got so much going that's humongous growing right now it's not even funny, I have watermelon radishes that are the size of small baseballs
My row of cucumbers are healthy, green, getting bushy and I was wondering why they weren't growing upward as easily as my pole beans. Now I know. Thank you for the excellent tips!
UPDATE JULY 27, 2022: Cucumbers are gowing like crazy - I'm getting loads of cucumbers (Muncher, 9"). So happy!
Well i guess proof is in the cucumbers....yes bad pun
I have such a problem.thinning this will send me over the edge of.obsession with cucumbers i fear...as it is every.single morning i.hand pollinate them
This is so weird. I was looking this up today. I knew I needed to prune my cuc's but wasn't sure what exactly to do. Divine providence! Thanks!
Me TOO, Strait 8’s and little picklers
How didn’t I know this? I do the same exact thing on my tomatoes. Just totally didn’t realize it. Thanks James! Always enjoy your happiness in the garden.
you don't need to do that for tomatoes...those grow to branches which have flowers
Congratulations to you and Tuck for reaching 1M subscribers! It is very well-deserved! I've waited eagerly every week for your videos (and to see Tuck!) for the past several years now. Your enthusiasm is so infectious, and you and The Boss have inspired so many people to grow their own food, myself included.
Well said. Congratulations from all of us, Tuck and James!
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I don't usually comment, but I've been watching you for a long time and I appreciate your knowledge always something to learn! Your passion with your channel is amazing! Thank you!
I have watched close to 100% of your videos for the past 3+ years. I learn something in all of them. But I really liked the approach you took on this video. It was still fun and enjoyable to watch but it was PACKED full of info. Like, "Here's a tip, boom, here's another, boom, boom, boom, also boom, and this too. I would love to see more videos like this!
First off, thanks for watching and supporting the channel. Me and Tuck are glad to hear you enjoyed this one, and I really appreciate this kind of feedback.
I will look into doing more How To videos in this style and pace. The food forest videos sometimes I can get a bit carried away because there is so much to show 😂
@@jamesprigioni I enjoy and appreciate all of your videos. Truly. I really think having a few like this every once in a while would be very beneficial to so many new growers. Easy to digest and not confusing to someone who doesn't even know what a "sucker" is yet. Excellent job. All my best!
Great video. First one I've seen about pruning suckers and lower leaves. Now I know what my cucumbers currently need.. Thank you!
I have been watching gardening and homesteading videos for a couple of years now, but only dipped my toe in. I don't think I have grown cucumbers yet, but plan to get them started this year. I never knew that if one reaches maturity, the plant will stop producing. I always learn something new on your videos!
I love your energy in this video. It's much calmer. 😊
Wow last year was my 1st year growing cucumbers and I did pretty well, but after looking at your channel ...imma bout to be the MVP of cucumbers ...Thank you....I love your doggie
Incredible information. You have corrected like three mistakes I have been making and was still successful. Can't wait for this!
You’re the man dude. Zone 6B here in PA. You’ve taught me a lot. Thank you.
Your enthusiasm is contagious! Love your channel!
wow....I'm 59 and didn't know this much about cucumbers. Now I know why my dad's harvest didn't get many fruits because he grew on the ground and not a trellis. Thank you!
My cucumbers are growing well for the first time, so pruning is a must this year. Thank you for the video, just in time.
Thank you for posting so much valuable content. I am a new gardener and am endlessly inspired by your work.
As a side note, you are also one of the only gardening videos that plays well at 2x speed!
I learned several new things I will be doing with my cucumbers this year. Thank you!!!
Look at your background- my dream! I remember years ago when you cleaned out your back yard & began this journey. So inspiring. I just got a little garden down here in central Florida & am trying to get hubby on board. Lol.
Never get tired of your energy at your intro- keep it up James!! Tuck got a haircut. ❤
Doing this to my cucumbers now! Thank you
Perfect timing for me! My cukes are ready for their thinning, and your video both reinforced what I already knew and also taught me some new tips. Thanks for your great content, as always!
Your enthusiasm is priceless! Regards and best wishes from a fellow gardener in the Midwest.
Thanks James for the wisdom, inspiration, and sharing Tuck!
You are a great teacher. I always learn so much. Cukes are on my list to try so this was good timing. Congratulations on 1 MILLION subscribers! Hugs to Tuck. 😊
Thank you. You made it so visually clear as to the parts of the plant , what to remove and what to watch. Repeating the process by example makes me feel more comfortable that what I am doing is right.
So on time. My cucumbers need the first prune. Thank you!
Had no clue cuces had suckers! You've perfected my tomatoes pruning this year so I better throw the cuces in too! Your down to business vids are so appreciated and encouraging.
Hey James. My first year growing cucumbers, and I thought 'why not grow up strings like the tomatoes?' Great to see that my instincts were on the money! Perfectly timed video about pruning them - am about to run out to the greenhouse to start snipping
I've never grown cucumbers before until now and didn't know they have suckers like tomatoes that need to be clipped. Thank you for the info. Glad to know a broken tendril doesn't mean disaster. Congrats on 1M subscribers. You deserve it! Smile and have a blessed day!
It's fun to see we all have our diferent pruning methods
Thankyou, first time growing a cuke up instead of ground. Love seeing Tuck!
James. Have you grown radishes as companion plants for cucumbers to repel those beetles? I did not know about the plant stops producing when we let one fully ripen. I came here for the pruning and learns so much more. You are a great teacher. Thank you.
Hi. I’ve been blundering in the garden for 6 decades, following in my father’s footsteps, just planting various edibles and watering. I’ve learned so much from you and enjoy you with your large personality and Tuck too! How in the world did you get him to want to eat all these veggies? He must be a very healthy boy. Love his name too! Keep teaching and I’ll keep amending my ways!💜💜💜
This is the knowledge I really needed, I’ve watched many videos and nobody has mentioned a few things you have. Thank you .
Thank you for the great info! Now I know how to prune my cuc's properly. I love how you have your furbaby with you everywhere. He's so sweet.
Love and hugs to Tuck, he is so adorable! 💖
You don’t really need to prune cucumbers, they will do just fine and produce very well! It’s a waste of your time if you have plenty of space in a garden... unless when people don’t.... then yes, you can prune with great results.
Love your Videos and subscribed of course, as you fellow NJ gardener, always good to learn from each other. Thank you!!!
Great video!!!!! I've grown cucumbers off and on for years and never knew u could prune them. I always figured if you cut them that would kill the whole plant. Thank you sooooo very much for the video and info. I'll prune mine tomorrow!!!
I truly RESPECT the way YOU explain - and at thd same time demonstrating the practical to us..
Good one..
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Thanks for your channel. It has introduced me to continuous gardening and hope for my plants.
You earned a new sub in the first 2 minutes of this video! What an informative video. Literally everything I wanted to know in 14 minutes! Great work!
Congrats on getting a million subscribers. I love your content and you have definitely giving me the blueprint to become a successful gardener. I thank you for your service to gardening UA-cam community. If you write a book, I’m going to pre-order it and send it to a few friends. Congrats bro.💪🏽💪🏽
Thanks for the tips, I’m going out to my garden now. Tuck is just so adorable.❤️
Literally, this video came at just the right time! My cucumbers are just starting to fruit. ❤️❤️❤️❤️s for Tuck!
Great video! I will say that thinning the leaves like you did at the bottom of the plant could be a bad idea for growing zones that get really hot. The leaves can protect the base of the plant from the scorching heat in the summer. But I think get leaves cut that are touching the ground is a great idea. Just gotta consider other growing zones
Yeah the leaves protect the fruit.
No, getting rid of the bottom leaves is always a good idea. There’s lots more leaves above to protect the fruit.
Hi James! This video came at the perfect time. I was outside looking at my 4 Cucumber plants today thinking they just aren’t producing like They should! Thanks for the info 👍🏼
Same!!!
James and Tuck so happy you & your team hit 1million! Keep up the amazing work we all appreciate it 💕
Thanks! I have always wondered how to prune cucumber plants. Like the Tucker sightings.
Last year, I tried growing on a shorter "trellis" (much like the fencing bed you showed) and had hog fence panels attached at the top coming up and out diagonally, with the goal of creating a small shaded area as cuke plants spilled over, in order to grow more peas (never have enough!) and any other plants needing protection from hot afternoon sun in the later summer. It didn't work as I had imagined so went back to letting them sprawl this year (also because we've had such odd weather this year in the PNW, and everything had a late start (including me, just glad I got mostly everything planted!) But with all the info you've covered in this video, it is a total game changer! I'm excited to grow successful trellises and maximize growing space! Thanks!
You need to have DOG merchandise! Tuck needs to be represented! I have 3 dogs and would love to see some doggie bandana's or food bowls, etc. Love Tuck!!!
Your intro always makes me smile! Thanks for always giving us great content!
Congratulations, James! Thank you for all of the information, encouragement and passion!
Thanks so much for the tips on pruning cucumber plants. This is my first year gardening and they were really getting out of hand, so your advice was very timely. Now that I've trimmed them, I can actually see what is going on with each plant. :)
Hope you had a great experience last year…. I’ll be starting my garden this week. I used to stick plants in the ground and forget about them, hence the reason for the extremely crop… This year I’m going to use all the great resources available… Have a great summer
Congrats on hitting 1 million subscribers! You and Tuck are true inspirations to us as gardeners!
Thank you my friend 😁❤️
@@jamesprigioni You're most welcome! Truly deserved! Thank you for your amazing and fun videos all these years. You and Tuck helped give me confidence to expand my garden each year and the hard work is starting to pay off. Bless your hearts 🥰
I enjoy you & Tuck immensely. Your enthusiasm & teaching are so encouraging. Keep up the new videos for your followers,
Thank you so much.
Tuck is so cute❤❤❤. I’ve grown cucumbers vertically before, but I never knew about pruning. I didn’t know about the big overripe cucumbers causing the plant to quit producing too. Thank you so much for this video.
Thanks for the refresher course James. Look twice and cut once! Cucumber beetles have been such a big problem in the Northeast, we are now trialing the grafting of our cucs to watermelon rootstock. Fingers crossed for a big harvest this season.
Interesting concept, what will they graft next 😂
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Good morning Helen! Me and Tuck are so happy to hear that, we always have a blast making them 🐕😁❤️
You’re a great teacher, thanks so much for all the inspiration and great advice. Congrats on reaching a million subscribers! You’re so awesome!
Awesome! Going to go and prune mine tomorrow! Thank you! For the tips! The lower leaves for sure are cluttered and I have my first flowers on now.
Whoa! Congratulations on 1 Million Subscribers! So well deserved 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you!!! Me and Tuck have had this as a goal for a long time now 😁🐕❤️
@@jamesprigioni Mission accomplished. Thank you for all you and Tuck do to help so many of us garden more effectively!
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Excellent information! We have cucumber plants and they’re a bit out of control. Going to fix that now. Thank you, extra snacks for my man Tuck 🐶 ❤️
I wish I’d found this excellent instruction when I grew cucumbers several months ago. I’m looking forward to doing it correctly this next time around!
Another winner---THANK YOU, JAMES!!!!
First time growing cucs for us so thanks for the tips and tricks! Love your videos man! My wife kids and I have several varieties of tomato, as well as pepper. We started snap peas and a couple different berries as well. This is our first year doing cucs, and a couple different types of lettuce! I’ve learned a lot of information from your videos and they are always entertaining! Keep on growing brother!
Makes me want to quote James - "We love to see it!" 😀
My absolute favorite gardening channel!!! So excited and happy for you and Tuck for reaching 1 Million subscribers!!! Thank you for sharing, keep doing what you're doing!!!
Using this as a refresher just like the first time I watched it last year! 😊
Chock full of great info! Thank you...and LOVE your energy!
congratulations on 1 Million subscribers…most informative Nd also entertaining garden content!
Thanks Luso I appreciate the kind words my friend
Yesss !!!! I needed this video 🌱 🥒 THANK YOU 🪴💚
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Thank you for your thorough but easy to follow explaination. I can't wait to get out to my cucumbers and look for all the components now! And: to follow your trellising style.
Love your videos!! Music, vegetables, and most of all your precious dog! So cute! Love your tips on gardening!!
Hey James! My zucchinis have been doing great once I started applying your tips, and I'm now trying to help out my cucumbers, so this video has great timing. I don't have a lot of pollinators in the area, so I hand pollinated my zucchinis and I was wondering, how do you help pollination with cucumbers? Is it the same technique as the zukes?
Hey James, we appreciate your videos! How do you determine the difference between a sun leaf and a sucker when you've let the sucker grow to the same size as the sun leaf??? I'm afraid of removing the wrong leaf.
Your instruction is the best on the internet! You don't push products as much and I love Little Tuck!!
This is the clearest video I have seen for pruning cucumbers. Also, I live I in Delaware so info meets my vegetable garden needs.
👍🏼🌸👌🏼this is such a great idea ! Mine are all over the ground and it’s too late now ,,, but next year for sure ! Thanks for this share James !
I had a mix of them on the ground & on the trellis-pruned them back a lot, but it hurt cutting out some of the longer suckers, most of which were already flowering
Congratulations on 1 million subscribers
Thanks Issac!! Me and Tuck appreciate you 🐕😁❤️
Attempted in planting cucumbers and this time the plants grow. This is the reason why I am watching this video. Thank you a lot!
Love seeing Tucker being spoiled in your videos! Thank you for your wisdom James! 🙏💞
Freakin excellent. If the suckers are long enough when you snip them, would they root like tomato suckers?
Yeah they should, but they won’t root as easily as tomatoes that have those little hairs in the stem
👍Congrats on 1M woohoo!! & Thank you James!! I've never learned to prune the suckers off until watching your video. By utilizing your pruning method my cucumbers will be so much easier to control and should be more productive this year! Mine are running amuck right now & trying to take over with lots of renegade suckers. I know what I'll be busy doing later!
Tuck is really enjoying that water. I like how you take care of your fur baby.
Thank you for the new video about the cucumbers 🥒 and the suckers! Great information and now even The Boss Tuck is happy for more cucumbers! Way to go ,and thanks again 👍 Enjoy the good weather Tuck !!
Thank you for this video! We love watching your videos! Had a question for you. When you were cutting the lower leaves, you didn't cut close to the main stem and left some of that leaf stem on there... why is that?
Just wasn’t paying 100% attention to what I was doing when I was talking, I should have cut it closer to the stem
Have a drink Tuck. Chug the bottle
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Thank you for the information I learned a lot! Never even thought about pruning cucumbers the same way I do tomatoes!
Thank you, I had no idea what I was doing, I think it will go better now!
James, would this pruning process be the same for a spaghetti or butternut squash if growing vertically?
I was just about to ask that question.
Tuck 2024
Already got the signs and pins made up! His slogan is riddled with cucumber and carrot puns.
Congratulations to 1. Million subscribers!! You and Tuck do a fantastic job!! I learn a lot from your videos. Ty for sharing. I did not know you should prune your cucumbers but it all made sense after listening to you!
I enjoy your vegetables videos. Thank you .
first timer here...
I never knew these things about cucumbers, that's for sharing the information.
Thank you James! Very useful information and perfect timing too
What a timely video! My cukes are growing up on my trellis and starting to bloom. I will follow your tips in pruning them for more fruit production. Thank you!
Thanks for your knowledge and help in the garden.
Oh my gosh! I had no idea how to prune cucumbers. That’s so helpful, thank you.
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