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How Do You Prune Cucumbers To Promote Growth?

Plan on pruning your cucumbers every few days from the time they get established and start growing well in the spring until the end of the growing season in Autumn. But know that you should start pruning about the same time you would prune tomatoes, and you’ll need to prune your cucumber plants more often than tomatoes if you want to promote more growth and fruiting. Some people recommend you start pruning once the plant has seven fully developed leaves others recommend only pruning once the plant starts to grow a branching stem whether that’s before or after seven leaves doesn’t matter. There’s no one rule of thumb regarding how big a cucumber needs to be before you start pruning. So, the short answer is that you’ll need to start pruning your plants as soon as they get big enough and keep pruning them throughout the growing season. Cucumber plants, like a lot of fruiting vines, grow incredibly quickly.