Rotting cucumbers

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Skimbleshanks

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Rotting cucumbers
« on: July 08, 2009, 19:56 »
Hi all, I got my first greenhouse this year and planted tomatoes, peppers and a cucumber plant. Great delight when tiny cucumbers appeared but they started rotting but the leaves look perfect as I have watered well. I do have one cucumber that is growing quite nicely so what have I done wrong?
I do hope you can help   :(

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Mike.white

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Re: Rotting cucumbers
« Reply #1 on: July 08, 2009, 20:10 »
Generally speaking the plant concentrates on the most productive fruit - it' quite normal, I believe - so far I've had 3 cucumbers off my plant, probably binned about 12 rotting ones, and at the moment it's being terribly ambitious and going for 5 at once.... my advice is wait until the good one is a decent size then cut it, and if you're sure the others are rotting, cut them off too - it will all come right in the end!  ;)
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Skimbleshanks

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Re: Rotting cucumbers
« Reply #2 on: July 08, 2009, 21:05 »
Generally speaking the plant concentrates on the most productive fruit - it' quite normal, I believe - so far I've had 3 cucumbers off my plant, probably binned about 12 rotting ones, and at the moment it's being terribly ambitious and going for 5 at once.... my advice is wait until the good one is a decent size then cut it, and if you're sure the others are rotting, cut them off too - it will all come right in the end!  ;)

Thank you so much for that, I really was getting panicky, my mind is at rest. :)


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