Any suggestions will help, thanks. The male flowers are always produced a few days to two weeks before any female blooms arrive. Just be patient. The female flowers will arrive soon. I have not had problems with them in my garden and I seldom hear from gardeners who have issues with the larvae. If you do find your cucumber plants are weak and have puny, chewed roots, beneficial nematodes can be applied to the soil in your vegetable garden to help manage the cucumber beetle larvae.
Something is destroying the newly form leaves at the end of my persian cucumber plant. Older leaves are not harm. Whatever it is, it is not messing with my armenian cucumber plant. I hope you can figure it out. Now I went as far as to put a fence around the persian cucumber plant. I am quite frustrated. I hope you can give me some pointers. Also I live in the North bay area in California. Sounds like it could be cucumber beetles.
They gnaw on leaves from time to time and can damage young leaves. My female cucumber flowers keep having little cucumber buds and the flower Browns and then the tip of the bud browns and nothing happens.
I have threee lemon cucumber plants on a trellis with a zillion male and female blooms but for 4 weeks no fruit. I had also had Golden sweet pea planted on this trellis and notes green aphids early June so I pulled them and have not noticed aphids since.
I have seen a yellow spotted beetle bug though. Sounds like it could be poor pollination. Try hand pollinating for a few weeks and see if that helps. Fruits are forming in the usual number but each fruit, once formed, stops growing.
None have swelled at all. None are over 2cm long at most and are showing no signs of getting on with it. Anyone any ideas? Try hand pollinating in the morning with a paint brush and see if that helps. We did start getting extreme temperatures almost a hundred, could that be the problem? It sounds like you may be waiting a bit too long to harvest them. Overripe Armenian cucumbers are very seedy and soft.
I suggest picking them on the younger side. Greetings — My cucumbers have very few flowers. Cucs get hours sun per day. Also, this year has been unusually warm with day temps in the low-mid 80s.
Variety is Marketplace Perhaps I just need to be more patient since they were started so late? Many advanced thanks! Marketmore 76 requires about 65 days to reach maturity, so they should be producing by now, even if they were started a little late. Perhaps a phosphorous deficiency in the soil is to blame. I suggest having your soil tested to see if that could be the issue. I have beautiful cucumber plants that have taken over a large area and have big healthy looking leaves and is loaded with hundreds of flowers.
I have so far gotten only 5 mature and delicious cucumbers. Why am I not getting more? It could be due to a lack of pollinators. That sounds like the most likely culprit. You can hand pollinate a few of the flowers to see if that helps. I have a cucumber plant that is only growing small ball-like fruits. The vine started out looking normal but has now become very thick and is curing in on itself with clumps of many flowers.
Is this something you are familiar with? Sounds like a possible genetic mutation or fasciation. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Skip to primary navigation Skip to main content Skip to primary sidebar. Common cucumber plant problems Plant cucumbers from seed whenever possible to limit transplant shock.
Poor planting techniques stunt growth Cucumbers are easy to grow from seeds sown directly into the garden, but for northern gardeners with short growing seasons, it may help give you a jump on the season to plant transplants out into the garden, rather than seeds. Lack of pollination affects fruit set Sadly, lack of pollination is one of the most common cucumber plant problems these days.
Cucumbers with a stubby or deformed ends are a sign of poor pollination. Drip irrigation tubes set at the base of cucumber plants helps target irrigation water.
Poor nutrition affects cucumber plant health Cucumber vines are heavy feeders. This is our first garden. We have planted the Bonnie Cucumber Burpless plants. The plants have done well growing but now that it is time for the cucumbers to start growing they are growing in odd shapes. They look more like gourds. Weirdly shaped, like curly q's. Need advice on what we are doing wrong. A number of online reviews of the Bonnie Burpless Hybrid claim to have had similar issues with misshapen fruits, so these weird cukes could be a result of the variety—not your care!
Perhaps try the similar Burpless Bush Hybrid, which seems to have better results, or one of the varieties listed on our Cucumbers page. Destroying the leafs of all my flowers and herbs. Daisy, black eyed susans basil and more. How do I rid these. I came home from a five day trip to find a bunch of these beetles on my 4 cucumber plants. They are still pretty young, but almost two feet now. Looked up what they were and took action right away because I do not want to lose my plants!
So here is the timeline: Thursday evening, came home and saw about 20 beetles. Sprayed all of my plants with a mixture of water, garlic, cayenne pepper, and dishsoap. Friday, picked off about 6 beetles.
Saturday, picked off about 4, saw two fly away. Sunday and today, no beetles. Just gave them another small spritz, hopefully it's enough to keep them away for good. Can't seem to find any larvae, but I do have a heavy woodchip mulch.
Also, I found most of the beetles inside of the flowers, only a couple on the leaves. Not much damage except at the base of a few older leaves. I hope anyone can find this helpful if they are having this problem too! How much of what did you spray on your cucumbers; of water, cayenne pepper, garlic, and dish soap?
I planted a whole lot of mixed veggies and find that I have some black beetles with yellow and white spots eating what I suspect to be my mustard spinach. Everything else including normal spinach is fine. Any ideas what this is and how I can control it without harmful pesticides?
The only real pest mustard spinach is susceptible to is a flea beetle there are many types, including a spotted species , which is hard to control. Protecting plants with barriers such as a row cover before infestation is the best management strategy. Before putting the garden to bed for the winter, remove all old debris from your infested plants.
Since flea beetles overwinter in the soil, try hoeing and cultivating in the early spring to destroy the larvae. Add a thick layer of mulch around young plants to prevent the beetles from jumping up on to the leaves.
Place some sticky traps nearby to try to capture those that persist. I have successfully grown cucumbers for the last two years and several different varieties of them. I live in St. Louis MO. I have tried in the past and several times to grow squash, and cantaloupe and watermelon all to no avail.
The pest that made me give up was not the cucumber beetle, it was a beetle that is green with black spots. Apparently they were infecting the plants with the wilt, and the plants would just die in a matter of days. I tried everything to keep them out and off the plants but they won. I no longer plant any of these plants as I was never able to get any produce. There were literally hundreds of them. My yard and garden does not have any trashy areas for them to over winter in.
Since this is not the black and yellow striped cucumber beetle what is it? It is certainly as devastating as the cucumber beetle. I am just finding out about these awful beetles and my garden has been established for over a month with my squash and now noticeably my cucumbers being destroyed. Are the few squash I have safe to eat? Or is it safe to say that my garden is contaminated and I need to rid of the plants? My humble vegetable garden is, of late, my pride and joy.
We harvested a total of six cucumbers before I encountered a nasty pest that has forced us take drastic measures to eradicate it without having to turn to harsh chemicals or pesticides. The culprits? I took the picture after I cut the stem off. Apparently, pickleworms are larvae from a specific moth, and they attack mostly cucumber, squash, and other cucurbit plants.
I just found a bunch of gooey, white blobs around my cucumbers. Then, early this evening, we were performing our normal rounds in our garden: watering, pruning, inspecting. My husband noticed two of the cucumbers were ready to cut, so I got the shears out and was getting ready to cut when I noticed the above critter on one of the cucumbers.
It was on the outside, apparently munching on the skin. When I cut the other one, I noticed two minute holes on one side. After my initial gross-out, I gave the cucumber with the worm to my husband so he could take care of it, and I proceeded to dissect the other cucumber.
Though it has those two holes, there is no evidence of pickleworm inside, much to my relief. We busted out our organic pesticide, chopped off all remaining fruits all which had pickleworm holes and egg residues and damaged leaves. Very sad day for me. I also discovered another possible pest: Vegetable leafminer. Teller of tales. Children's Author.
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