It always seemed to me that picking cucumbers was not a tricky business. But it turned out that if you want to get a bigger crop from the bush and not damage it, you need to follow certain rules.
I would venture to give some advice to novice summer residents growing cucumbers. There are several important "not" that affect the yield of green pimply fruits. I will share my own experience of trial and error. I offer a small selection of useful tips.
Harvest time is important
I never paid attention when it is better to collect the fruits. But once she noticed that the evening crop withers faster. Morning cucumbers retain freshness, aroma longer. I think this is due to dew. Harvesting is advisable every three days. Do not forget to look under the leaves, large specimens are often hidden there.
Cucumber is not a pumpkin
One of the gross errors is to wait until the fruit grows well and only then pluck, thinking that others will grow with it. Unlike pumpkins, cucumbers do not.
You need to remove the overripe, yellowing cucumbers, if you want the lashes to continue to bloom. If you do not pluck the fruit for a long time, then the bush immediately begins to grow it to produce offspring (seeds), therefore it ceases to feed new ones and throws all its strength into those left. As a result, you will get only a couple of large cucumbers and lose your crop. 
Overgrown cucumber. Photo from the site: //moya-belarus.ru
And still ripe fruits secrete a special substance that signals the end of the growing season. The plant stops growing, the testes leave the code. Therefore, if you liked the variety and you plan to get seeds, then you need to do this at the end, when most of the crop has already been harvested.
It is generally useless to harvest grains of hybrid varieties marked "F" on the packaging, from which it rarely turns out to be full-fledged offspring.
You can “deceive” a bush before frost, it will give new whips, buds.
Twisting is not recommended
There are nuances of picking cucumbers.
Some scroll the stem, this can not be done. In this case, her injury occurs, through which the infection can get.
Also, do not pull, while the lashes can break. You can press the fingernail on the tip of the cucumber to the peduncle. But if there is even a small piece left on nipping the fetus, wait for the mold "to visit".
Better cut with clean scissors or a knife, close to the fruit.
Down hooks
I was surprised to learn that defective fruits take more power than normal, smooth. So nature compensates for its mistakes. I began to notice - the hooks are much denser and tastier, to be honest. But I don’t give them big growth, I delete it immediately after a growth defect is discovered. It is more pleasant when all the fruits in the bucket are even, neat.
Variety sort of strife
Small-fruited varieties will not grow large even with perfect care. Gherkins in the skin become cotton. Ashing smooth smooths are inflated in barrels; during conservation they explode in banks. Their inside is filled with sour mucus. Salad long-fruited cucumbers, increasing in diameter, become tasteless. If you want good taste qualities of fruits - do not expect metamorphic transformations.
No need to leave a lot of ripening fruit on one lash, it is better to pluck a part of the cucumbers young.
Like that. Have a good harvest!
