🌱 The Cucumber Chronicles – Day 72: The Big Drought 🌱

Back from vacation and Gurkie has clearly missed us 😬
He drank all the water we left behind and many of his leaves are dry or completely gone.

A bunch of leaves look healthy, and our very first cucumber made it to 14cm! 🥒💪

Let’s see if we can bring it back.

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🌱 The Cucumber Chronicles – Day 58: Home Alone 🌱

It’s been two days since we left Gurkie home alone, and I’ll admit we haven’t missed him too much. 😅

He’s got some basic watering systems in place. I’m hoping they’ll hold up over the next two weeks while we’re away on vacation. 🤞
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🌱 The Cucumber Chronicles – Days 49 & 50: Difficult Moving to the New House 🌱

Gurkie’s move to the big new pot wasn’t as smooth as we hoped. In the process, some roots were damaged and a good portion of the sun leaves lost their strength. A few didn’t make it and we had to prune them and a few still look sad and might not bounce back. 😞

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🌱 The Cucumber Chronicles – Days 47 & 48: Little Jungle 🌱

Gurkie has officially turned into a little jungle. 🪴🌿 He’s completely outgrown his current pot, and it's getting harder to pretend otherwise.

We’ve had the new rectangular pot and trellis ready for a week now, but the move hasn’t happened yet.
To be honest, I’m afraid I’ll snap a stem while repotting. So I’ve been doing some homework first. 😅

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🌱 The Cucumber Chronicles – Day 43: Bites on the Leafs 🌱

Gurkie is growing strong. We’ve picked up a new rectangular pot and some trellis pieces. Tomorrow we are moving it to its new condo. 🪴✨

There are lots of flowers now, but based on my research, they all seem to be male. We’re still waiting for that female flower as we need one if we want actual cucumbers. 🤞

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🌱 The Cucumber Chronicles – Day 35: Can’t Stop Growing 🌱

It’s been just over a month and Gurkie is growing very strong. Yesterday, I added a longer branch for support and today it already wrapped itself around it 🥒🪴

At this rate, we’re definitely going to need more branches or maybe even a proper trellis.

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🌱 The Cucumber Chronicles – Day 33: Autopilot 🌱

Gurkie is growing super strong lately IMO 💪 I really need to figure out a better support system. I’m considering grabbing some straight tree branches, but a trip to the gardening shop might be needed.

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