Most cukes, squash & melons will produce only male flowers for about the first 4-7 days until the first females appear. Have a little patience.

It's been 3 weeks since it stared flowering, is that normal ?

3 weeks seems like a mighty long time. I may be wrong, but I'm not familiar with male only or female only cucumber plants.

Good news is, go back to Home Depot and get a packet of seeds, you have plenty of time for one crop and maybe a second this year in GA. The unused seeds will remain viable in the fridge for years.

I would have said a week or two of male flowers before females for most cucurbits. But they're mostly unpredictable. There is nothing you can do to encourage female flowers, so I'd just chill. They'll come in their own time.

If you're only growing one vine, then I would suggest you grow a few more as mentioned above. They will help pollinate each other and you'll have backups in case your primary vine runs into trouble.

My experience has been that some vines put out females to start, and other will put out males. They are unpredictable as Dan said. So multiple vines will help maximize your yield.

Agree. If it is blooming at all then it will bloom both types eventually. Plants under any kind of stress will often put off female blooms until they adjust to the stress if possible.

Dave

You can grow cucumber varieties that don't need pollination (called parthenocarpic). I grow "Cool Breeze" and "Diva".

Thanks everyone ! I'm going to try a different variety.

Parthenocarpic varieties won't address this problem. You still need female flowers. Also, as noted, it isn't necessarily about varieties. If you do another variety that happens to produce female flowers quickly, it might not next year. That being said, I believe there ARE varieties that are specially selected to produce male and female flowers at the same time. That has some value in commercial farming. Maybe someone knows which ones those are.

For clarification, does "up to 10% of the seeds will be a pollinator variety that produces male flowers" mean that you would have to grow every seed in the packet to make sure you get that 10% you'll need for pollination? I wonder that every time I read it on their site. Thanks!

I am growing the same burpee burpless hybrid potted plant (but from lowe's-I work there). It's now August and still not a single female flower. I also planted from seed for an intended late season harvester and it just flowered.... no females either!

I had this problem with a burpee zucchini a few years ago too.

Guess it's a fluke, but it's not isolated to you.

Same problem here..I'm in South Georgia.
I have many male blooms..but so far, looks like only one female.
We planted in June..idk if that is too late or not, it's now August 4th..(we live in a condo, so we are doing a container garden..our first of the kind)
I just started trying to pollinate myself this morning..and when I did..there was a bee doing its work..so, my fingers are crossed.
Our tomato and eggplants are doing good..even our jalapeño plants.
Now if our cucumbers would produce, I will be happy.

Just like a woman. She'll be ready when she feels like being ready. Go wait in the car.

I'm having the same problem this year. I get about one cucumber a week.... if that.

Bought a cucumber plant from H/Depo it's been flowering for a month or more all!!!!!!! Males not one female what should I do it's from Burpee seeds Bummed in FL.

Same issue as many of you. Planted a few vines. Plants growing great. Dozens of male flowers and one or two female. No fruit yet after 9 weeks. In central FL.

planted two of the same variety I bought from Lowe's also. planted right next to each other, same lighting, same watering. one took off and is growing up a trellis lime crazy but no females. the shorter one is growing just not as high yet and it's producing quite a few females. been over a month. wondering why the one hates me so much ☹️. I went and sat in the car but still waiting... and now have heat exhaustion...

I read that the females can't handle the heat, need lower temps. I'm screwed.

To the extent that cucumis sativus (as in, plain 'ol cucumbers) can't take your heat, try Armenian cukes. I've been growing them for years and every hot hot summer I have them coming out of my ears. They taste exactly like regular cucumbers, are burpless, and when you slice into them, look pretty much the same as well, but can be long and unusually shaped fruit. Now, these guys are actually cucumis melo, so botanically they are actually melons. Go figure. We're currently using them by the bazillions in salads, pickling them, and even making cold cucumber soup with them, even as the temps are in the high 90sF.

Good discussion guys. I'm a few thousand kilometers north of you on Vancouver Island. I have seen virtually every possibility talked about here. I have an English producing and a pickle producing. The others might be a little later because of planting times or sun exposure. I've kept the water supply constant. I'm waiting for female flowers