Nice setup! I hope it's greened up well by now. I've grown cukes in the gh as well as squash, pumpkin, zukes and luffa. The bigger squahes, you can usually get a willing male to pluck the petals off and manually pollinate. For the cukes, it seemed that a q-tip worked better to deposit one or two of the larger-seeming bits of the pollen. I never was able to get a luffa going, but got to where I had pretty good results with squashes, less-so with cukes.
Whenever I could get a bee in there, she seemed more interested in escape than doing anything useful. For this year's cuke crop, I chose a couple self-pollinating varieties, we'll see how that goes.
-Ed
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