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Originally Posted by habitat_gardener
Here's a question from a fellow community gardener: the first cucumbers he's picked are bitter halfway down, not just at the tip. What causes this? And is there a way to prevent it?
My own cucumber plants are still working on their first sets of leaves.
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In all the plant of cucumbers are bitter substances. Optimal temperatures for planting of cucumbers are about from 50 °F to 90 °F. The bitterness float from the plant to the cucumbers, when in the time of the harvest is hot and dry weather (stress). There are varietes of cucumbers ( hybrid), which the bitterness haven´t in the plant and therefore cucumbers can not contain bitterness.
Vladimír