Spotting the difference between male and female cucumber flowers is really easy. When you first see the flowers on your plant ...

The male flowers supply pollen, which is carried by bees to the female flowers, whose ovaries, once the flowers are pollinated, swell. Run-of-the-mill cucumber varieties have separate male and ...

The female flowers, which have a swollen stem that looks like a mini cucumber, require lots of pollen from the male flowers in order to grow a fully developed cucumber.

If you are going to venture at all beyond the ordinary in growing cucumbers -- and you must if you want to eat the best-tasting ones -- then you should think about how they reproduce.

The female flowers have three stigma lobes in the center of the petals. Most plants in the Cucurbitaceae family have separate male and female blossoms on the same plant. (Other […] Skip to content.

Both male and female flowers are yellow. The female flower will be attached to the plant by what looks like an immature cucumber on cucumber plants or an immature squash on squash plants.

The next set of flowers is a mix of male and female. Look for the miniature fruit at the base of the female flower. Now pollination can occur, so the fruit can develop.

Some plants have such big flowers with pronounced stamen (male) and stigma (female) that the easiest way to hand pollinate is to just grab one of the male flowers, tear off the petals and use the ...

Cucumber flowers are either male or female, and fruits develop only from female flowers. The male flowers supply pollen, which is carried by bees to the female flowers, whose ovaries, once the ...