Cucumber

[David Allaway]

Hi all I am new to this forum stuff but I hope it will give me some help and hopefully I may be able to help someone else.

My question is I have several cucumber plants on my allotment some fruit has set and grown ok but most of them have gone yellow after growing to about 13 mm 1/2 inch I have been feeding with tomato feed any suggestions please?

Kind regards
Dave

[redser]

The plant is probably carrying too many fruit and it's too small yet to support them all. So it is aborting some. You should remove some when they are tiny to give the plant a breather to grow larger.

[David Allaway]

Hi redser thank you I will do that as soon as I get home from work and will let you know how I get on in a few weeks if that's ok

Regards Dave

[Bill HH]

Yes I agree, it is common for cucumbers to self abort, particularly when the plant is small. Some people remove the first few just to help the plant grow stronger.

[Tomatoking]

Hi David
It sounds to me like you have been given the right advice, you can also check out my cucumbers posts which also shows you how to grow cucumbers on the shoots for a bigger yield.

[David Allaway]

Thank you for your help I did take of the first small fruits and now I have more fruit than I can handle
One again thanks Regards Dave