Steps For Harvesting And Preparing Cucumber Seeds For Next Year's Garden. To harvest the seeds from the over-ripe cucumber, cut it in half lengthwise.

Squirting cucumbers blast their seeds over distances hundreds of times their length, and now scientists say they have found the secret to how the plants do it. CNN values your feedback 1.

Squirting cucumbers blast their seeds over distances hundreds of times their length, and now scientists have solved the mystery of how the plants do it. News Today's news ...

When it is ripe, the squirting cucumber will detach from the stem and shoot out its seeds in a high-pressure jet of mucus. In only 30 milliseconds , it can send its seeds about 65-feet-per second.

Take a look at squirting cucumber explosive seed dispersal in real time and slowed down. Credit: Helen Gorges/CC BY-NC-ND One doesn't normally associate ballistics with botany, but most of us don ...

The seeds of a squirting cucumber can reach distances of about 33 feet away from the mother plant. - Dominic Vella. Recently, researchers blew this ballistic mystery wide open.

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — An odd little gourd called the squirting cucumber has an explosive reproductive strategy that has intrigued naturalists since the days of the Roman Empire ...