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  1. 06-29-2010, 10:11 AM #1
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    Default I have a question about cucumbers

    Someone here at work asked me if there was a reason why some cucimbers were bitter and others were not..If it was something in the soil or the weather? I do know that you can pick two different ones off the same vine and one can be bitter and the other not but why? Anyone know?
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  2. 06-29-2010, 10:38 AM #2
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    The larger cucumbers will be bitter as well.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Contrary Housewife View Post
    Heat and not enough water. And sometimes they just are.
    Yeah that!

    I have had more trouble with the 'green' ones being bitter than others. Have never had a bitter lemon cuke.........and grew Armenian Cukes last year and they are great.......(might have one this year--am still 'babying' it) They are not only burpless, but you don't have to peel them, and I never had a bitter one with two plants. Love them!
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    I read somewhere - and this might be wrong - that Armenian cucumbers are not actually cucumbers at all, but rather a variety of melon. That could explain why they're never bitter.
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