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What variety of cucumber did you plant? There are yellow skinned cucumbers too, by the way.

Was it ever green? If so, you let it on the vine too long. By the look of the size of the cucumber, you are growing the smaller pickling kind that don't get as big as the slicing varieties.

I grow both and the pickling are pulled around 4-5 inches long but the slicing are left to get 7-8 inches long.


ETA: Even if you bought a packet of green skinned cucumbers, I've had the wrong seeds in packets before. It doesn't happen often, but it can happen.

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I bought it already growing, said burpless cucumber.

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Cucumber seeds are dirt cheap. I usually don't pay more than $2 for a pack that can plant a 20 ft. row with plants every 6 inches apart and have seeds left over.

All you can do now is pick the cucumber and see what it tastes like. If it is bitter and the seeds inside are kind of tough to chew, it is past time to have picked it.

Sometimes I'll have cucumbers that I don't see and instead of them being bright green, 7 inches long and about 1 1/2 to 2 inches round, they get 3-4 inches round and bitter to eat and are yellow skinned.

Top pic looks like Pokeweed

First one is just a dam weed. Kill it.

Second one, You might be getting to much water to cause that.

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Second one is just a cucumber that has been on the vine a long time. Pick it and save it for seed, cucumbers do best when directly sowed and generally grow fast.

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It never turned green. Now it's hard as a rock, I will keep it for seeds, I have a couple others on the vine, now.

Thank y'all for the help.

The pokeweed will likely go, I'd love to have another pollinator around, but don't want that big thick shrub that would come up if I moved it out of that little pot.