Yes They have recognizable female flowers and sometimes there is considerable delay in producing both male and female flowers. They are essentially a variety of melon with same growth habits.

Thank you. I grow melons and squash regularly, and I've never seen such a long delay in producing both sexes of flowers. But I'll go and look more carefully at the bazillion flowers that I have.

I grew it one year and found it to be rather unproductive. But then I didn't even try to pollinate them. Everyone I gave them to was not fond of the flavor, either.

But the plants were huge!!

Well, I did more or less a careful inspection, and didn't manage to find a female flower. Now, I did find a small cuke! So I'll just let it do it's thing. There are SO many flowers, that any female flower will be absolutely rained on with pollen. I have these things adjacent to honeydews and cantaloupes, which themselves make huge numbers of flowers, but the Armenian cukes make even more.

Now, Armenian cukes, honeydews and cantaloupes are all cucumis melo, so I have to assume that even the latter can fertilize the former.

Well, got loads of armenian cukes now. Just like regular cukes. Same flavor. I'm impressed, as they seem to avoid problems in regular cukes. But holy moley. They grow FAST. One day it's the size of a cigar, and a few days later you can barely wrap your hand around it. The fact that they aren't dark green means that they aren't as conspicuous in the vines. So you've got to be careful identifying them.

I've grown them here, and they were later to bear than regular cukes. Very crunchy, and had no bitterness. I found that I had to pick them often & pick them small, since they become hollow when larger. Was a little put off by the rippled skin, lost too much to peeling.

Yes, when they get larger than you can put your hand around, you need to scrape seeds. Of course, that's what happens with a regular cuke as well. I'm not going to let them get larger than that, but I understand they start to solidify inside when they do. Gosh, I don't peel. The fluted skin makes for attractive slices.

Kind of amazing that, for all intents and purposes, these are cucumbers, but the species - Cucumis melo - is actually that of melons, not regular cukes. Though the family of all of them is Cucurbitaceae.