Cucumber Plant - Help required

[leonmc0708]

Got a mini cucumber plant - managed to get a littel cucumber off it last week, it was amazing taste.

its now looking all floppy and saggy and wilted.

leaves yellow and mottles, stem weak as anything.

someone please tell me I didnt kill it eating the cucumber !!

any hints or tips maybe ?

[Piggle]

Sounds like it might be mosiac virus with the mottling.... I think it may be doomed

Have you got a piccy - it might be something else.

[Kleftiwallah]

Do you have a heater in your greenhouse?

"One of my cucumbers in my popup greenhouse was looking a bit limp this morning and by the time I returned how from shopping it was dead. It was on the top shelf and a paraffin heater below kept the mininum temp at 9.8 (in a corner at the end of that shelf). Two courgette plants beside it were OK, as were more cucumbers and courgettes on the lower staging. The roots system was fine, the stem hadn't rotted and there was no pest in the pot".

This plea is from another equally interesting gardening forum. Hope it helps. Cheers, Tony.

[Aberdeenplotter]

Course you killed it

Seriously though, cucumbers are very prone to a condition known as cucumber wilt. It can be caused by a slug or some other beastie having a nibble at the stem or the roots and the plant just ermmh wilts. Sometimes it's also caused by a fungal infection at soil level which is why some folks make a ridge when planting out to help drainage (hence the expression ridge cucumbers.) I grow mine in a bottomless pot of compost on top of another pot which works for me.

[leonmc0708]

Its in a pot - I will take a pic later if its still goin.

So sad to have lost it, the cucumber was delicious !

[redser]

I've read that some times you can bring them back to life or at least good health No blood sacrifices needed! If you mound up compost around the stem it can encourage new roots to come at the base. Worth giving it a bash in case it is over-watering.