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Nozebleed Rank attained: Vegetable garden tender
Joined: 26 Jan 2010 Posts: 751 Location: Dublin
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forest flame Rank attained: Yew tree

Joined: 17 Jun 2008 Posts: 384 Location: DUBLIN
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Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2011 9:06 pm Post subject: |
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hi nosebleed
the plants look great dont know why the fruits are not coming for you.i would be interested in finding out as i have a cucumber plant and am waiting patiently for flowers
ff
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Nozebleed Rank attained: Vegetable garden tender
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Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2011 9:33 pm Post subject: |
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ok i stuck the fork into the soil around each of the plants in a bid to aerate the soil and maybe improve drainage..the plants are in a corner of the greenhouse where rain water will natural from the roof and pour to the ground..maybe this is the problem...soil inside the greenhouse doesn't look wet..it is moist but not wet. so im thinking i might need another water butt.
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Joined: 28 Feb 2011 Posts: 31 Location: Cork
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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2011 9:42 am Post subject: |
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Hi Nozebleed
I have cucumbers growing outdoors and have harvested a couple. However, during the very wet weather that we have had, a couple of the cucumbers seemed to rot from the tip upwards that I attributed to the saturated soil.
One of my cucumbers has a mass of flowers, very tight to the stem of the plant that appear to be doing nothing whereas the other 2 have only a few of flowers but these all have fruits behind them? I don't understand this? Can anyone help?
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ian Rank attained: Ash Tree


Joined: 22 Jun 2007 Posts: 237 Location: Tallaght
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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2011 11:02 am Post subject: |
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HI Noze
that plant looks very healthy, have you let the insects in to fertilise the flowers ?
If not then go over them with a dry clean paint brush get the pollen deep inside those flowers.
Regards, Ian.
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Nozebleed Rank attained: Vegetable garden tender
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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2011 11:13 am Post subject: |
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yeah i started using a small paint brush to pollinate the flowers..but i asked the horticultural dept in newlands garden centre and they said the fruit should still swell..even if they're not pollinated.
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James Kilkelly Rank: Site Admin

Joined: 30 May 2006 Posts: 2173 Location: West of Ireland
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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2011 12:19 pm Post subject: |
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Quote: | ok i stuck the fork into the soil around each of the plants in a bid to aerate the soil and maybe improve drainage..the plants are in a corner of the greenhouse where rain water will natural from the roof and pour to the ground..maybe this is the problem...soil inside the greenhouse doesn't look wet..it is moist but not wet. so im thinking i might need another water butt. |
More than likely it is unregulated watering of an indoor grown plant that's the problem.
Too much water at times, too little water at times.
Water pours around your plants on a rainy overcast day when the sun is absent so your plants have little evaporation from their leaves.
They cannot cope with so much water when not loosing it through their leaves.
Then conversely on a sunny day the plants are loosing masses of water through their leaves, but with no rain to replace it at their roots.
All this fluctuating failed to show up on your plants leaves, but is now showing up on the fruits.
I'd try and control the outside water (rain) getting in, and regulate things by hand watering.
for those of you with indoor pollination problems I suggest you look into sowing some borage inside.
It's a real pollinator attractant.
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tunnelsofhens10 Rank attained: Rowan Tree


Joined: 07 Jun 2011 Posts: 146 Location: Longford
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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2011 3:14 pm Post subject: |
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Have to agree with James on watering, overwatering especially can cause fruits to rot. Don"t know what type of cucumber plants the other folk have but I always plant 2 plants of all female type flowers in a growbag and by the end of season I and my neighbours are all cucunbered out.
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Nozebleed Rank attained: Vegetable garden tender
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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2011 7:52 pm Post subject: |
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thanks for the replies..i'm going to leave them without watering for a week or three. hopefully they recover..
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