I can't believe the cucumbers are still going so strong lmao. What a blessing.

Except the zucchini that looks like my backyard crops. Also I have a million tomato's.

corn, cuc’s, zucch, and some schmewk

Its going to be an interesting salad tonight.

Hell yeah!

We planted so many tomatoes and we will maybe end up with 10 lbs? But we've never had so many cucumbers. It's an adventure 😅

My cucs have just kept going, it's nuts. 500+ gram all the time

Goals

Leftmost one looks a little smaller than the rest, but don’t worry, I can take it off your hands for you. ;p

Comrade you do not want that lol

The plant has rot and I grabbed a branch to see if it's worth harvesting and trying to salvage some of it. Jury is still out (it's getting a nice little bath rn) but I'm not hopeful.

Wow you must have been a very good comrade to get such nice cucumbers.

That left plant is a noxious weed and needs to be eradicated, I'm a professional eradicator let me know your location and I can eliminate it from your garden, preferably by burning.

Is it not normal for them to be that size or still growing this time of year? I'm not familiar with the process myself.

It's super variable but for me it's a combo of powdery mildew, cucumber beetles and vine boring insects that kill off the plant. I'm sure they have a natural life cycle but they never last that long for me 😅

Ahh, so long as nature cooperates!

Can I ask what lattitude you are at that you have buds that developed yet? I am at 45 in a continental climate, and mine just started to bud out maybe a week or two back.

But do you have good tasting tomatoes? Do you have great tasting ones?

Because there is a world of difference between the best tomatoes, and the shit they sell in grocery stores. I didn't think I even particularly liked tomatoes until I tasted good heirloom ones, Jersey type tomatoes. They are my favorite fruit almost now.

There is a movement to revive old tomato species, they sell seeds, they had a huge waiting list but that was 15 years back, you should look them up and try some of the old variants.

Mine get some mold in october if I don't harvest them in time. Is there anything natural to do to treat it?

By mid october my spot is down to like 2 hours of sun so it's not a big loss. I got plenty last year, I am high as fuck right now, and drunk but that's another story.

It's very strain dependent I think, also these are autos lol.

I'm a little north of 45. These were started April 30 and brought outside June 1.

I got some kind of purple superstrain hybrid made for outdoors, from seed this year from seedlings I bought last year. Late start, we had hard freezes well into may this year. Mine went uncovered late may I think, started pretty late, forget exactly but about when you did.

I haven't really looked into it. We have had record rain and it seems some strains are more susceptible than others.

It's a fungus, but I don't know if it's something that sticks around and I should rotate but I don't think I had a plant there last year but I honestly can't remember 😭

I've also got indoor plants flowering that were started a month later (different strain)

So yeah super variable 😅

I think soapy water is supposed to help actually. You might want to look it up, and I wouldn't want to spray my buds with dish soap, but it might be better than nothing. Definitely better than spraying with fungicide, which will be very much worse for your health than soap.

But I bet some plant oils, like essential oils, help also. Peppermint oil is magic for instance, it probably helps for this too.

Nice, I would share a picture but don't because of security concerns, not sure about metadata, and I never got a program to remove it. My biggest is at least 10 if not 12 feet, but less bushy than last years big one. Last year of my 8 surviving from 20 seedlings, all but 3 were male. But my biggest was a female, I got at least a pound if not two from her alone.

This year I have only spotted one barely hermathrodite plant. Guess I will move that one at some point, not enough flowers to worry about it maybe though idk.

But of the 3 years I've ran plants up here, they've all budded the same time. But the auto flower is quite different, and made for quick flowerings.

The punchline is they're pickling cucumbers that I forget to harvest until they're too big 🫠

To remove metadata, try "magick morgify -strip whatever.jpg" on Linux etc.
Check what metadata is there with "magick identify -verbose whatever.jog"
Documentation: https://imagemagick.org/mogrify

Thanks for the tip will do.