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Message: [QUOTE="Chuck, post: 218268, member: 944"] If the plant set fruit on every flower the plant could not successfully grow that many fruits. Sort of like not thinning a peach tree. I also think, but don't know for sure, that parthenocarpic varieties just don't produce that much fruit. A normal monocious plant will produce 15-20 fruits. My Beit Alphas produced about half that. I grew 9 of the Beit Alphas. Big beautiful plants, but the amount of flowers was not even close to those of the Monocious cucs. This has nothing to do with the problem at hand but cucumbers have a producing lifespan of about 50-60 days so if your plants have been flowering for that length of time you may as well pull them up and replant. [/QUOTE]