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Cucumbers: help, please!

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  Posted by collperson (U13806187) on Saturday, 17th July 2010

  I need help, please, someone. This is the second year I have grown cucumbers. One plant has lost the colour of its leaves between the veins: they are yellow with green veins and quite droopy too. When it looked healthy it gave off cucumbers, but now there is only one small and wizzened one. I gave it a squirt with anti-green fly which infested the place last year, but it hasn't picked up at all. It's planted in a plastic pot in half home-made compost and half garden centre stuff. Can anyone give me any advice?

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  Posted by elderman4 (U10843761) on Saturday, 17th July 2010

  Very difficult to give long distance diagnosis, but it depends on the size of the pot the cuc is in, it may have given its all with regard to cucs, and is it getting enough water? Is anything eating the roots - lift the pot to see if ants or someting else is in the compost.
  Was it in a balanced compost or short of something in the home made compost - if it has been producing then maybe the roots have gone down to this compost and they don't like it.
  Could be chlorosis - look this up in a garden book for a cure- or google it. Is it in too dry a spot and the compost has dried out too much, and uneven watering could be a problem. Cucs like a reasonable humid atmosphere - have you sprayed it with water in this hot weather.
  
  Sorry to be so negative but it could be any one of many things!!!

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  Posted by michael (U8304653) on Sunday, 18th July 2010

  Agree with elderman4's first two comments I would add that you really do need to feed cucumbers and I always use a fairly high content of manure in my pots which are 8".
  
  A point which may help is are you removing the male flowers as soon as they appear because if you don't they will produce more and more male flowers to the detriment of female flowers.

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  Posted by collperson (U13806187) on Wednesday, 21st July 2010

  Thanks very much for your advice. I think it must be this chlorosis - I gave them a lot of extra nourishment today, but unfortunately this chlorosis has now spread to all plants. They are still producing, though.

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