Parthenocarpic cucumber not setting fruit
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Comments (14)I grew both last two years - Perfect pick and Cavali under cover. May be it' me, but more then half of the fruit ended up rotten or misshaped young. This year I had to take the cover off due to some other issue, and production became much better, until they died due to SVB. I also planted tromboncino this year, and I think this is what I am going to do from now on. It survives SVB, cucumber beetles, groundhog, and powdery mildew. It has its damage, but keeps to grow and producing. I grow it vertically, so it doesn't take more space, same as zucchini would. The taste is different, but i like it. It is less watery, and has no seeds other then very top of it, that you can just cut off. Next year they go on the wider bed with trellis then this year, so I am planning to plant three plants on trellis, and 3-4 regular zucchini in front of them and keep them under cover until they start flowering or over grow cover height. After that I will enjoy about a month of regular zucchini, until tromboncino started to produce, the SVB will take the zucchini, and tromboncino will have whole bed to enjoy)...See MoreDiva Cucumber Fruit Dying
Comments (4)Weather. Be patient. If the plants look good, the cukes will follow. In Ohio you are in a gardening area just slightly ahead of my own. You are in the transition period where plants grow vegetatively and where they start heavily yielding. It is 100% normal for cukes to abort most of their fruit early in the bearing season. Don't worry about it, just be patient and before you know it you will be wondering what on earth you will do with all the cukes. It is normal and OK. Nothing is wrong....See MoreCucumbers all flowers but fruit never matures
Comments (4)I've done that several times and the little cucs start to grow. But they never get longer than 1". It seems the plan is putting all it's energy into the flowers and not the fruit....See Moretomatoes and eggplant won't set fruit
Comments (5)i also though of hyper fertilization .... not to mention you planted.. not in spring.. but in mid summer ... many things are planted in spring.. so as to grow a root mass .. to prepare themselves for the heat of summer ... being out of phase to mother nature MIGHT be an issue ... contact your local extension office.. and ask about the local soil ... or have a soil test done ... you seem to have an inclination.. toward thinking plants are children.. and need to be fed ... back in the day.. i harmed more things on this premise.. than i ever did good ... be very careful about this ... i would never fert seedlings.. thru incorporation .. i would watch the plants.. and give them what they need thru observation .... ken...See Moremroyboy
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