Cucumbers can exhibit different flowering and vining characteristics.
Flowering Predominantly gynoecious cultivars produce almost all female flowers on the same plant, so they must be interplanted with monoecious pollenizer plants that produce mostly male flowers. In cucumbers, all predominantly gynoecious cultivars are hybrids but not all hybrids are predominantly gynoecious. Monoecious cultivars produce separate male and female flowers on the same plant. An example of a hybrid monoecious inbred is Poinsett 76. Hybrids are the offspring derived by crossing two unique inbred lines.