Greenhouse cucumber plants will give you a premium quality harvest if they are pruned properly. For robust outdoor cucumbers, cutting is only part of the care plan when necessary. Read this guide to learn when and how to skilfully and properly cut cucumbers and cucumbers.

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Cultivate greenhouse cucumbers - this is how it works

In the cultivation of tomatoes, pinching is obligatory. The compelling benefits of this traditional care also benefit cucumbers and cucumbers that thrive in greenhouses. By regularly removing stinging shoots, crop yield and fruit quality are significantly improved. Here's how to do it correctly, step by step:

  • Lead the main shoot of a cucumber plant to a rope or climbing aid
  • From a growth height of 60 cm, pinch out side shoots regularly
  • Pinch off or cut off the relevant side shoot above the first flower and the first leaf
  • Rule of thumb: Only allow one set of fruit per leaf axil

In addition to pinching, the leaves should be removed to a height of 30 centimeters. This precaution prevents pathogens from spreading to the cucumber plants via the splashing water.

Cut cucumber plants boldly behind glass

Traditionally, cucumber plants are grown in a single shoot up to the ceiling in the greenhouse. On the way there, the main shoot is spared from pruning measures. If the shoot tip has reached the end of the climbing aid, a courageous pruning promotes the sprouting of further side shoots with vital fruit approaches and puts an end to further height growth. How to proceed professionally:

  • Let the main shoot grow another 40 to 50 cm when it reaches the greenhouse ceiling
  • Then cut off the shoot tip above a leaf
  • Leave the top two side shoots uncut
  • Side shoots underneath continue to pinch out over the first set of fruit

As the growth progresses, the numerous cucumbers gain weight. Regularly check the stability of the climbing aid when using it. To prevent cucumbers from pulling a cucumber plant to the ground, attach nets to the greenhouse poles to secure the fruit if necessary. If fruit from the lower tendrils hang to the ground, place a sheet of Styrofoam (€35.50) or straw underneath to prevent direct contact with the ground.

Prune outdoor cucumber plants on a case-by-case basis

Outdoor cucumbers are the survivors among cucumber plants. This fact is expressed, among other things, in the fact that a pruning is rarely necessary. The robust useful plants give you a tasty harvest without stinging buds. Only overly long tendrils bring you to the raison with a cut. At least two leaves should remain for each fruit set, so that the cucumbers are supplied with water.

From August there are no prospects for new flowers to turn into tasty pickling cucumbers before winter. From late summer, pinch off fresh buds and blossoms so that all the plant energy flows into the ripening fruit.

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Tomatoes and cucumbers combine on the plate to create the perfect culinary delight. Reason enough to grow the two plants together in the greenhouse. The horticultural stroke of genius succeeds by dividing your greenhouse into two climate zones using a partition. Your tomatoes thrive on the sunny side. On the opposite side you grow cucumber plants with a manure heater as a source of heat.

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