White fluffy buds on cucumber.

[esbo]

Some images, what is it?

[esbo]

They seem to be where the flowers should be i think on this pic (bit shakily taken unfortunately)
you can see a yellow flower towards the top right and one is half yellow half write above and to the left of it. Then you can see some more white fluffy stuff below them.

Got a feeling it maybe a fungus or mildew but it's a bit weird, maybe is made by an insect next, like cotton?????

[esbo]

Only some of my cucumber plants are like this the others are normal, infact I have already eaten one cucumber, as small one the size of elongated egg, it got blown off in the wind as it was dangling over the side of a pot.

I have a few more baby ones in the pipeline which look OK.

[zazen999]

Can you put your camera on a brick or something and focus on the fluffiness, it's impossible to see from those photos what it is

[esbo]

Can you put your camera on a brick or something and focus on the fluffiness, it's impossible to see from those photos what it is

Well I think with the first two I use a stick to steady my hand and they came out better.
Had a look today with my glasses on they are quite fibrous, I think they are dead flowers perhaps.
I was going to take more pics but hte camera battery (mobile phone) is low.

But I can add that the plants have a mini cucumber or two at the end, and it has a dead white flower on the end of that so I think they are dead mini flowers.

I will try taking some more pics I have another battery, but the camera is not good for taking close ups and also I can't see the display screen in the strong sunlight so don't know what I am taking lol.
I think the plants are generally healthy though.

[esbo]

Well I have some better pics now also noticed a bigger cucumber on one of them so the plants seem to happy enough.

Will try and upload them later, it's a bit of a chore doing that lol.

[esbo]

Thinking back now these plants were in small pots on the window sill for a long while, I remember them flowering there early, which I though w2as a bit odd so eearly.


Maybe they were a bit stressed and started producing lots of flowers, dozens of them, think they died and turned white, there seem to be mini white furry cucumbers behind some, but very small, they may be dead too. But there are some healthy but small green cucumbers too, so the plants seem to be doing well overall.

I am thinking perhaps the flowers died unpollenated as they were in the house away from insects to pollinate them??? Google confirms they need insects, so that would seem to explain things, the flowers died unpollenated and more were produced explaining why there were so many flowers, which then turned white and died, the cucumbers behind then also turn white as they died.

[esbo]

Thinking back now these plants were in small pots on the window sill for a long while, I remember them flowering there early, which I though w2as a bit odd so eearly.


Maybe they were a bit stressed and started producing lots of flowers, dozens of them, think they died and turned white, there seem to be mini white furry cucumbers behind some, but very small, they may be dead too. But there are some healthy but small green cucumbers too, so the plants seem to be doing well overall.

[esbo]

Yes it seem they are just dead flowers which turn white.
So it's all clear, they produce flowers like mad when they were not fertiliser, but one fertilise they seem to slow down the flower production to a sensible pace,


Same happens with tomato flowers.

[esbo]

I had problems with disease on my cucumbers last year (which I posted about here!!) but they are all looking much better this year. (touch wood).