🌱 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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Right before we left, one cucumber had just started to grow. Not sure what state it’ll be in when we’re back. Will it be overripe or just perfect?
I also did a round of last minute hand pollination on all the new female flowers, just in case. Hopefully they’ll come through as backup!
🌱 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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One of the main plants seems to be recovering already, and we spotted our first two female flowers 🙌
This morning, the first one opened, and we did our first pollination using a tiny brush. The second flower is still forming, but you can already see the little cucumber "egg" (or ovary I think? Still researching 🥒🔍).
Fingers crossed in a few weeks we might see our first real cucumbers. But first Gurkie just needs to survive.
