[Full] Diva Cucumber in Aerogarden Bounty - Huge drama & lots of learnings

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@somarvls-mygreenindoors Жыл бұрын

Thank you for such a great demonstration with the explanation of your experiment with cucumber planting. You have inspired me to take my growth with hydroponics seriously. I am glad I found your site. Keep on with the good work.

@marygrott8095 Жыл бұрын

You have a lot of patience!! Thank you for all the experiments you do and show us.

@daisymv374 Жыл бұрын

Wow, 7 months of growing this plant 👍👍 Great that you had lots of cucumbers eventually. I am trying a variety called “Mini-me” in my AG Harvest. It is parthenocarpic and gynoecious so I am hopeful. At almost 5 weeks, it is over a foot long. There are small flowers but not yet blooming size. I will let only one sucker develop and remove the rest. I am also adding additional nutrients now that it is big enough to use up lots of the nutrient solution. My garden-grown Mini-Me plant is doing well and I started harvesting last week.

@aerogardenexperiments Жыл бұрын

I also wanted to grow Mimi-Me for a long time but not getting a chance. Wish you good luck with your Mini-Me.

@daisymv374 Жыл бұрын

@@aerogardenexperiments thank you very much for the good luck wishes!

@elewmompittseh Жыл бұрын

I tried the Diva cucumbers in a Harvest once while we were living in an RV, I know they say they don't need to be pollinated, but I still did with a paint brush. It was really fun, we had the vines tied up all over the RV ceiling with extra lights here and there. We got quite a few fruits from it too! Now we're in a house and I plan to grow them in the basement with free standing trellis :)

@aerogardenexperiments Жыл бұрын

That sounds really fun.

@elewmompittseh Жыл бұрын

@@aerogardenexperiments Yes! :)

@MichelleHotchkissArt Жыл бұрын

Thank you for showing the long term progress! I have some diva seeds but have been avoiding using them since they seemed difficult in the beginning of your grow, but I think if I follow your recommendations from the very start, it may be less drama and more successful at producing cucumbers. Rip Diva! It sure produced amazing cucumbers.

@aerogardenexperiments Жыл бұрын

Yeah, go for it. The end result will pay off all the efforts and patience. Thanks for watching.

@viviancutler3918 6 ай бұрын

Hi I Love Your Videos. How many trelises do you put up? Just one or have you put up more? Thank You So Much for Your Wonderful Videos and hard work.

@aerogardenexperiments 5 ай бұрын

For cucumbers, I never needed more than 1 trellis. But for other vining plants, I use 2 levels of trellis.

@viviancutler3918 5 ай бұрын

@@aerogardenexperiments Thank You!!!!

@brandonhawkins2861 9 ай бұрын

I have tried 5 different varieties in hydro and by far the most productive is a variety called Picolino from Johnny Seeds, I got about 30 cucumbers in 4 months on multiple plants, I let them all get about 3 feet long then started pruning them back. I pick them at slightly bigger then a gherkin pickle size. If you wait until they've yellowed (ripened) I find the plant gets less productive after that. After about 6-9 months they seem to get exhausted and the plant health starts declining so I replace them after that.

@aerogardenexperiments 9 ай бұрын

Good to know about Picolino cucumber variety. I have the seeds for a while but didn't get a chance to try them. Now I got some motivation to give them a try.

@lkprrt Жыл бұрын

Did you continue to use cal mag throughout the whole process or go back to just the Aerogarden nutrient ?

@aerogardenexperiments Жыл бұрын

No, I only used it at the beginning to see if it makes any progress. Once it started producing cucumbers, I simply used Aerogarden nutrients. But I started adding some additional nutrients since the plant started emptying the bowl very often. I was adding 2-3 ml additional nutrients every time when I refilled the water.

@mikeschaoticgardening Жыл бұрын

Very nice!

@Sorim57 Жыл бұрын

Please do not let the plants die for negligence!!

@TechVyper Жыл бұрын

How come the water seemed constantly low? Do they do better with less water in the bowl?

@aerogardenexperiments Жыл бұрын

1. Cucumber plants keep emptying the bowl. So, low water indicator and my recording coincide often. 2. I maintain half the tank pretty much all the time, except when I add nutrients every 14 days. I see better water flow and more bubbling when the tank is half full compared to full.

@ipashaka Жыл бұрын

Do you think the CalMag helped? If so, how often did you use it and how much? Right now I am limping along with my Muncher Cukes in my bounty. No mature cukes yet. I have been trimming and cutting off old spotted leaves and baby cukes that dried up. Maybe adding CalMag might help?

@aerogardenexperiments Жыл бұрын

No, cucumbers don't require any supplements. Aerogarden nutrients give everything cukes need.

@faithoverfear70 Жыл бұрын

thank you for your videos. do you think that pickling cukes would grow better as they don't need to grow so big?

@aerogardenexperiments Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I am pretty sure pickling cucumbers work. I'm not sure if there are any parthenocapy varieties. So, you may need to deal with manual pollination.

@gardeningtipswithvicky Жыл бұрын

Every time i Try to grow a cucumber they got disease( even special varieties+ disinfected green seeds) so I don't want to try in hydroponics...Once i ve got verh small 10 cm cucumber and got a nervous shock...

@aerogardenexperiments Жыл бұрын

That's sad to hear. Yeah, cucumbers are generally disease prone.