The mysterious "Moon Flower"

Wow! A monster cucumber that wants to take over the house! I wish I lived closer as I would want to see such huge cucumbers. Maybe you should start selling the seeds.

IF you have alot maybe ya could sell them to a small grocer or pu t sign out front cukes for sale lololl No I usuallyget what i plant and I know how cucumbers spead we had them growing in the trees high up in La when we lived there my son planted them sothat was his part of the garden. WE had to move so our neighbor got them allthink she pickled alot lollll

While I like the idea of a cucumbergram,I'd be concerned about it being transformed into a lot of sandwiches somewhere along the way! I don't have green fingers at all..cutting the grass is about as much as I'm prepared to do..though a neighbour found a strawberry plant with fruit in my garden one time!

I am not destined for experiencing such pleasant mistakes. What I sow, so shall I reap! But odd things do happen. My flowering creeper grew so thick that it killed my yielding guava tree.

Hi JenInTN I was born to be surprised and shock others when it came to gardening and seeds. Technically I have quite a little knowledge and also I lack interest but then my mom is a great gardener and so was my late granny. I remember the duo would plant almost everything they could get around. So for once, mom asked me to get her some saplings of sunflower plant. Now what is that and how does it look like? Mom said something describing it and all I understood was it was with some twig and with green leaves and guess what... I returned with some other plant that never bore any flowers but it was green. I dont know what that plant was or is actually called as neither mom nor granny knew about it(though they religiously kept watering it expecting it to bloom). And not to mention the gifts that this plant/saplings brought for me that day There have been other few instances too, I got pumpkin seeds when I was asked to get maize seeds. After some more of such mishaps, finally mom decided and told me - I wasnt born for gardening (at times I wonder why doesnt the genetics work for me and my family)

This story is funny. So, you waited and waited...hoping to see some moon flowers but in the end, you got a cucumber plant. And it's a blessing in disguise! Now, at least you can eat something from your fruits of your sweat...

Well, time to start thinking of a new career as a cucumber farmer.. You will not need any other work.. Perhaps another job - making pickled cucumber! You can sell it all winter to restaurants etc.. I remember reading of a person who got a piece of land and found out it was full of rattlesnakes. He started a rattlesnakefarm and sold canned rattlesnakemeat!! There are not much limits, if we use our imagination..

That's so cool! I've never heard of such a plant! I'd love the plant but I'm no..don't want you to send me one of those giant cukes! it would cost you money to send it to me, odds are that it would spoil by the time it got here and my experience in cukes are that the smallest ones are the tastiest. One the size of your legs??? Have you tried it yet? The only surprise i ever "planted" was tossing my exe's pot seeds by the roadside and pretty much everywhere as I walked to work. This was years ago by the way. I felt like gretel tossing bread crumbs. I don't even now remember just "why" I did that. Let me tell you, they were hearty little seeds. They grew up out of the pavement in the driveway. They also grew right near the hospital and made front page news here. I laughed because I KNEW I was the culprit with no intent on going back and checking on them. The paper said that the police were viligantly watching for the owner of the plants to return to the crime scene. I laughed and thought...WOW and they made that little tidbit front page news!!

I was also confused as I read through, because I have moon flowers and they are not viney and the flowers are white..So, does this mean you don't have moon flowers? Maybe I can send you some seeds from my garden..:)

Oh, my!!! This is so freakin' funny!!! I don't know what a moon flower is. I can just see your face when you see that cucumber hanging there. Gotta be priceless. Guess you're gonna have to make a lot of cucumber salad. And you can pickle some of them. And give a lot away.

I wonder if this is another name for cucumber or another variety. I once planted cucumbers and watermelon near eachother. They grew together and made the oddest thing. It was pretty but not a cucumber and not a watermelon. We took one to the Agriculture annex here and they had never seen one before. How and why they grew together like that we never could determine.

That's really funny. But, at least you got something of value - FOOD! I have to say, in all my years of gardening, I've never gotten a plant I didn't expect when I planted it. Then again, I've never gotten seeds from someone else. I've always used seed I get from a seed company or garden center. Speaking of that, here's a link to some real Moon Flower seeds for you: http://www.burpee.com/flowers/moonflowers/moonflower-giant-white-prod000281.html?catId=2097&trail= Happy gardening!

the only thing i plant are the seeds of doubt in my wife's head when i get up to my usual nonsence! If you want to get rid of all those cucumbers try the Ann Summers ebay page.

I LOVE cucumbers!!! Send some north! What a funny story. I'm glad for you it wasn't kudzu. I'm not a real good grower of anything but one year I bought a package of wildflower seeds. I planted them along the side of the driveway. They grew but there were very few flowers. And I didn't recognize any of the ones there were. Mostly they were little and scrawny. So I called my elderly neighbor over because she has a beautiful yard and knows a lot about plants. She stood there looking at my wildflowers, walking from one end to the other shaking her head. Then she started laughing and looked at me and said "These are weeds. You bought weeds!" But about 10 years later a couple of 6 foot sunflowers and some shorter ones grew in my back yard. And morning glories grew on the fence in the back yard. So, not a total waste. I don't really know where the sunflowers & morning glories came from. None of my neighbors have them but we do have a lot of birds who may have um, fertilized my yard with seeds.

Oh, that is so funny. I had a willow tree suddenly show up in a potted plant last year. So we gave it a good place to live. This year I had snow on the mountain show up in a pot where I was trying to grow a hot pepper. Mind you, I have been digging up snow on the mountain plants out in the country for ages as it is a plant I remember Mom having in the flower bed. I never could get it to grow. I think I would be making pickles about now if I were you.

That is too funny but what benefits you now have! cucumbers? Great...lets dish us up a salad. I love them! I am not good at growing anything. Flowers even die when I get near them.....so you are way ahead of me!

hi jenintn cucumbers oh y es the familiar familiar yellow blooms. How funny somehow you received the wrong seeds.Well while you will not seen any pretty flowers you will have a lot of nice salads this season. I love to slice them then set them in vinegar and water in the fridge for awhile. em]happy[/em] ]

GOOD GRIEF, LOL. Guess u are going to have to make pickles.I bet y'all have got a big laugh over this. What did the bil say about the 'flowers',lol.

thats so cool. and quite funny. i wonder how he confused them. i cant remeber it happening to me or anyone i know.

Haha, thats funny. I grow moonflowers here and the flower is a huge white one. The seeds come from a spiny pod that bursts when it's ready and the seeds fall out and some stay in it til they are ready. I love that plant, I grew some last year and loved them so much that I grew them again this year. My brother liked them so he grew some as well. I think there is a huge difference in the seeds and what they look like as far as cucumbers. I have grown cucumbers here as well though, and we had so many this year, but it was great. I probably have planted mystery seeds at some point in time, yes. I know I pick up packets of mixed seeds and always want to see what the flowers will develope into. I do need to do all the garden over here though, one day when I am more finanically secure perhaps.