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How to to save seeds from cucumbers !

There are great advantages
to saving your own seeds. Money is one but the best thing is that
once you start saving the seeds from your best plants, the seed will
start to adapt to your garden and will be better seeds than you can
buy. Saving cucumber seeds is easy, give it a try. The main
requirement is that your cucumbers are annuals and will make seeds
the same year as they are planted. Cucumbers will not cross
pollinate with melons or squash. They will cross pollinate with other
cucumbers. Bees pollinate cucumbers.
If you want to save seeds from cucumbers and you have only one
variety you can select the best cucumber to grow to maturity. If you
have more than one variety you will need to hand pollinate. Hand
pollinating is easy once you know a few tricks.
First, you need to identify the female flower from the male flower.
The female flower has a baby cucumber at the bottom of the flower.
The male flower has a straight stem that leads to the bud. Our goal
is to pollinate the female flower with a known male flower of the same
variety to get a pure seed. To do this we need to keep the female
and the male from the bees. Just as the flowers are ready to open,
(you can tell this by the yellow coloring) cover the flowers with a
paper sack. Tie, staple or clip the bag shut so no bees can get in. In
the morning, pick the male flower. Ever so gently, tear off the petal
to expose the stamen (the bright yellow part with the yellow dust on
it). Remove the bag from the female flower and gently remove the
petals (don’t pick the flower). Now rub the male flower dust onto the
sticky yellow part of the female flower. Once pollinated, place the
bag back over the female flower and leave it there for 4 days. Be
sure no bees can get into the bag. Once the bag is removed, mark
the cucumber with a ribbon to know it is for seed.

The cucumber saved for seed needs to remain on the plant for 5
more weeks than a cucumber that is picked for eating. The
cucumber will turn a yellow or white color when ripe.
After the cucumber has ripened, remove the seeds with a spoon.
Place them in a bowl of water for 5 days, stirring every day. This will
remove the slick covering of the seeds. Once the seeds are rinsed
throughly, place them on a plate to dry. Pack the seeds away in a
glass canning jar once they are dry.

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