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Post by maggyd on Jan 12, 2008 21:59:34 GMT 1
I used to love cucumber but lately I cant bear the taste of them! has anyone else noticed he taste has changed?
Are they the same as home grown I was wondering if they have done something to the seed as well! as they have definately altered the taste of the bought ones. Or is it ME have my taste buds altered and Smell.
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Post by 4pygmies on Jan 13, 2008 9:23:24 GMT 1
Home grown ones taste quite different IMO. I grow them every year and love them but my granddaughter thought my fresh ones were 'disgusting' compared to the supermarket ones she's used to ;D I think the fact that they are always encased in a plastic tomb in supermarkets is part of the problem. I try and avoid those....
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Post by debbiem on Jan 13, 2008 10:05:57 GMT 1
I HATE that plastic stuff around them in supermarkets! And the middles go soggy very quickly too. I haven't tasted a homegrown one for years but I do like the supermarket ones - until they go soggy.  |
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Post by dutchy on Jan 13, 2008 11:37:22 GMT 1
The "condom" around them is indeed very annoying.
(sorry for making that comparison but it is almost a regular joke in the Dutch supermarkets and the phrase can be removed should any one so wish)
Funny mine do not go soggy inside maybe I eat them too fast?
Anyhow I plan on growing a yellow variety on the allotment.
Not a clue how that one will taste.
Last year I was given some cucumbers by a fellow lottie keeper.
They were a lot sweeter than the supermarket ones.
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Post by debbiem on Jan 13, 2008 13:43:18 GMT 1
I like the condom comparison. ;D I've just 'opened' another supermarket one and this one tasted different - it definitely had more flavour, or at least a different flavour, than other ones I had. This one is quite long, quite crinkly and slim - it sounds terrible but it wasn't. When I sliced it the slices were almost flower shaped, very in-and-outy. The flavours must vary in the supermarkets too I suppose. :  The yellow ones sound interesting, dutchy - I can't even picture it let alone imagine how they'd taste. Bet they'd look great in salads. |
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jan 13, 2008 15:48:09 GMT 1
I like cucumbers still warm from a sunny GH...they do taste better than mass produced ones imo. The ones I grew last year didn't keep very well tho (Burpless Tasty Green) so I'll prolly go back to Telegraph...
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Post by maggyd on Jan 13, 2008 22:18:30 GMT 1
It might sound funny : but everyone new what a cucumber smelt like before they tasted it BUT these new ones dont taste or smell like cucumber to me !! Im going to buy one from the market and see if its different from the supermarket ones ot Im going to grow my own and take it to one of the family to look after when I go away. |
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Post by Sweetleaf on Jan 13, 2008 22:41:55 GMT 1
I grew Crystal Apple last year but I didnt like the flavour, too bitter no matter what size I picked them, might try telegraph next, or Burpless, or one of the older varieties.
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Post by maggyd on Jan 13, 2008 23:01:09 GMT 1
I wonder if that is why? they could be what the supermarkets are buying they are bitter I think.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jan 31, 2008 18:49:34 GMT 1
I have a couple of spare cucumber seeds if you want them Maggy...they're from D T Brown's 'Petita F1' and I quote from the packet. 'A prolific cropper producing small, dark green BITTER FREE fruits. CMV tollerant and resistant to leafspot and gummosis.' ..whatever that it... ;D
send me a PM if you want a couple of seeds..cucumbers are pretty reliable when it comes to germinating so you won't need more than that ;D
oo they need a GH...have you got one?
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Post by goth on Feb 4, 2008 10:09:57 GMT 1
Some of our cucumbers were bitter the year before last. We found out that we hadn't removed all the male...or was it female flowers?
Apparently, if they're allowed to pollinate, the fruit will be bitter.
They were nicer last year ;D
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Feb 4, 2008 18:10:42 GMT 1
It's male flowers I think Goth...I always nip them out when they appear anyway. ;D
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Post by dutchy on Feb 4, 2008 18:27:26 GMT 1
Er how do you tell the difference?
Or is there a beginning of the fruit visible with the females ?
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Post by goth on Feb 5, 2008 10:00:13 GMT 1
Don't ask me...the greenhouse is hubby's department!   ;D |
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Post by Sleepy on Feb 5, 2008 10:04:06 GMT 1
Er how do you tell the difference? Or is there a beginning of the fruit visible with the females ? The female flowers have a slight elongated bulge behind the flower that when successfully pollenated swells to become the cucumber. If they are not pollenated then that bulge withers and drops off. |
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Post by Sweetleaf on Feb 5, 2008 10:07:37 GMT 1
Er how do you tell the difference? Or is there a beginning of the fruit visible with the females ? The female flowers have a slight elongated bulge behind the flower that when successfully pollenated swells to become the cucumber. If they are not pollenated then that bulge withers and drops off. hmmm, sounds familiar. ;D |
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Post by 4pygmies on Feb 5, 2008 10:35:57 GMT 1
I never bother removing the male flowers on anything...too idle, she is. I always have a total glut of cucumbers though and they don't seem bitter.....so I'm not convinced it makes that much difference...
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Feb 5, 2008 17:16:35 GMT 1
I only do it because my big sister told me to....
Yep...what Sleepy said..the female flowers have teeny tiny baby cucumbers as their 'stem', whereas the male flowers just have an ordinary stemmy stem... ;D
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Post by elsie on Feb 5, 2008 20:30:12 GMT 1
I grow all female plants so that there are very few,if any, male flowers |
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Post by dutchy on Feb 7, 2008 18:36:34 GMT 1
So whatever I do will be fine?
Wow I can be lazy but when I get another attack of activifrenziegointodothingiezz I can remove the males.
Men have a hard life don't they ;D
( rephrase ... short. Just in case ... )
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Post by maggyd on Feb 7, 2008 20:26:08 GMT 1
Some of our cucumbers were bitter the year before last. We found out that we hadn't removed all the male...or was it female flowers? Apparently, if they're allowed to pollinate, the fruit will be bitter. They were nicer last year ;D I was talking about bought ones Goth! I really cant stand the taste now and that lovely cucumber smell has changed Im only going to buy from home growers as I think they are imported something has definately changed. |
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