Cucumber problems!!!

**Germinater** · 28-06-2011, 08:32 PM

I found my cucumber shrivelled up yesterday when I opens the door to the plastic greenhouse so I shut the door back down and within the hour the leafs were ok again..don't think hey like dry hot sunshine once the gh had become very humid again it perked back up ..were are you keeping yours ??is It out or in doors ..

**Strawberry delight** · 28-06-2011, 08:34 PM

They're indoors, in the conservetry. Its not the leaves that are droppping off though its the actual cucumbers.

**Potstubsdustbins** · 28-06-2011, 08:37 PM

I have found it is something they do now again, especially if you leave mature fruit on the vine or the vine's under stress. I just nip em off and the vine takes care of the rest.

Now there not pot bound and you've got your watering right they should be fine.

Colin

**Veggie Mackem** · 28-06-2011, 09:43 PM

Cucumbers, I've found can be very temperamental, they need gradual successional increases in size of pot from seed to final cropping pot, so start of with 3" seed pot then pot on to 5 or 6" then to final large 10" pot, for some reason they don't like large cold space for the root system and if yours has been pot bound and youv'e potted on to final position then it probably hasn't developed a significant root system to support the quantity of fruits that have developed hence the dropping off, but worry not!! I have the same cultivar 'Tiffany' and I had the self same issue about a month ago, they struggled to develop or gain any height or bare fruit then within the last week they suddenly exploded into life, masses of dense green foliage and fruit all doing fine (touch wood).

**sewer rat** · 28-06-2011, 09:49 PM

Cukes are very temperamental. My plants always do really well but they can take up to two weeks to get going after planting out - they just sit and look as if they are sulking but in reality their root system is working it's ass off - as soon as the plant sorts itself out, they will fly - I am growing only four this year (have grown up to 40 in previous years, and they all without exception misbehave for the first while then you can't keep up with them.

**Germinater** · 28-06-2011, 10:20 PM

Mine did the same about a week ago but now iv taken a few of the cucks of the vine it's producing more and there fating uP nicely ..don't panic to much if the plant is healthy it should be fine

**Geordie** · 30-06-2011, 09:59 PM

try feeding with a high nitrogen feed and not a tomato feed, often its just that the plant cannot sustain the growth.

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