I bought a packet of cucumber seeds earlier this year. What attracted me to buy these seeds is 1) it’s parthenocarpic, meaning no pollination required, and 2) the description online said each plant can yield as much as 40 cucumbers. I have 4 of these plants in the ground, does it mean I should get 160 cucumbers?

I certainly have not harvested 160 cucumbers this year, 100 maybe, and that’s plus the other 14 plants that are yielding 2 to 3 cucumbers per week per plant. Anyway, I think these plants are pretty much done now that we’re in September, will I grow this variety again despite it failing to yield 40 cucumbers per plant?

Possibly, I like that it doesn’t require pollination as bee pollination is quite unreliable in my garden and I often have to go out and do the pollination myself.

Written for Six Sentence Story. The prompt is “Yield”.