My cucumber plant - crazy growth speed! Check this out!

Hi all,

It's been a while since I gave a little plant/gardening update. Do you remember that I had a small cucumber plant growing in one of my pots on my balcony? It grows insanely fast!

To show you just how fast it grows, I have been taking a series of photos every day. These first 5 pictures were taken in 24 hour intervals, and the last 2 with 48 hour intervals.

Crazy, don't you think?

Look at picture number 1 - the plant hasn't reached the horizontal string yet, and the next day it's already there!

When I took the photo the following day, I couldn't believe how much it had grown! Most plants don't change that much overnight, but cucumber plants grow extremely quickly!

Sometimes I'm sitting at my desk working (and I can see the plant from there), and I can literally see the movement of the plant within one hour. The little tentacles would point in one direction, and when I look again they point in another. It's truly jaw dropping in my opinion. I had never paid such close attention to this before.

Here you see that the plant is reaching for the roof, and the next day it seems to have understood that it can't grow any higher. Sometimes I wonder if these plants can "see". How do they know where they can hold onto something without having any eyes? Maybe the little tentacles just kind of"feel" around until they touch something? Who knows!

The following pic was taken just yesterday, and the plant somehow understood that it has to keep walking horizontally.

I'm very pleased that I finally got a little cucumber. This pant took forever to develop female flowers. You can recognize the female flowers because they already have a mini cucumber attached to them, like in my last photo.

If you didn't know, cucumber plants develop male and female flowers, and for a cucumber to grow, they need a bee to pollinate the female flowers at the top with the pollen from the male flowers at the bottom of the plant.

Nature is amazing isn't it?

So this plant had only male flowers until it started going horizontal at the top, and with a different cucumber variety I had seen female flowers appear much sooner.

These last two photos were taken this morning. Check that blue sky...too bad I have to work today!

I hope that you've enjoyed watching my cucumber plant grow, and of course there will be an update as soon as my little cucumbers grow and are harvested.

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Thanks for reading, and I look forward to your comments below. Votes are cool, but comments are better =)

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