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Produce => Under Glass => Topic started by: Simon05 on July 06, 2006, 15:38:38

Title: Cucumbers not setting
Post by: Simon05 on July 06, 2006, 15:38:38

My cucumbers get to an inch long then they start turning yellow at the end and die, is it poor pollination? If so can you hand pollinate them as you do melons?

Title: Re: Cucumbers not setting
Post by: tim on July 06, 2006, 16:16:11

Are they m/f or all-female? In or out? How big?

Title: Re: Cucumbers not setting
Post by: Simon05 on July 06, 2006, 17:44:27

all female ones, in a greenhouse, the plant is roughly 4 foot tall, fruit is about inch or so

Title: Re: Cucumbers not setting
Post by: tim on July 06, 2006, 18:28:12

Simon - I am NOT pleased.
Been quite smug - no, grateful - the last few weeks, with only a dozen or so, on 8 10' plants, aborting.
Went out on the offchance that  might find one to compare with yours & was much disappointed to find this. Focus? Sorry - not going out there again tonight!

Think?
1. All female? No need to pollinate?
2. I get this every year, just as I think that all is great. Sometimes on overgrown lower sideshoots but, more usually, well up the plant when it is overstressed with babies.

I await an expert answer??

Title: Re: Cucumbers not setting
Post by: Simon05 on July 06, 2006, 18:58:23

Tim,

many thanks for your reply, its one of them things that happens. Perhaps there isnt an expert answer, in the books and on the net, it says that as the season progresses this doesnt happen.

Title: Re: Cucumbers not setting
Post by: tim on July 06, 2006, 19:28:46

Wish you luck - ours increase as the plants try to overdo it!

Just looked back & there's no photo - "upload facility full"!!

We'll get there??

Title: Re: Cucumbers not setting
Post by: tim on July 07, 2006, 06:09:13

Right - here it is -

Title: Re: Cucumbers not setting
Post by: moonbells on July 07, 2006, 11:12:55

I get those too, if the plant's got a lot already growing.

moonbells

Title: Re: Cucumbers not setting
Post by: nippie on July 07, 2006, 11:52:03

It is good to know we are not alone  :)
I have been acusing OH of not watering enough.
I did cut one lovely cucumber last night, good size and it tasted delicious, you can certainly tell the difference from shop ones.

Title: Re: Cucumbers not setting
Post by: tim on July 07, 2006, 12:11:41

And unsprayed. Skin & all!!

Title: Re: Cucumbers not setting
Post by: nippie on July 07, 2006, 12:14:06

Absolutely Tim, and who would want to take the skin off  :o

Title: Re: Cucumbers not setting
Post by: tim on July 07, 2006, 17:49:48

A sudden thought. Tying in that shoot tonight, I found another 4 aborts. That's 7 in a row.

Now this is the plant that gets the full sun when the shading's not up, & the one that wilts most. So those embryos could have suffered at the time of the worst heat??

The plant on the north side, a different variety, is not suffering. Yet!

Title: Re: Cucumbers not setting
Post by: Simon05 on July 07, 2006, 17:54:21

Tim,

from looking at the pics, yes they are going like that, but I removed the ones that had turned yellow, all the other immature  cues are ok

Title: Re: Cucumbers not setting
Post by: Ricado on July 08, 2006, 13:58:42

never mind not setting, what about cucumbers that are not even growing ?  Ive half a dozen and the tallest is only 2 1/2 ft !  They were early sown (march), but refuse to put on any growth despite feeding ???

Title: Re: Cucumbers not setting
Post by: tim on July 08, 2006, 16:54:41

Oh. dear - I'll post you one!!

Really can't figure. If they are well cared for, what more can a chap do??