My cucumber plants are turning white and dying :-(

[Newgrower2016]

Hi, I'm a first time grower this year and have a few vegetables on the go.

Peppers, Chilli, Tomatoes, Strawberries and Cucumber.

My concerns are for my cucumbers and tomatoes really... I used propergating equipment to start them off... but since taking off the lids (hardening?) the leaves have just turned white, curled and died. :-/ I had 9 cucumber plants and now only have 1! :-/

Can anyone please tell me what I'm doing wrong? :-/ Open to any advice...as very new to this. :-)

[Containergardener]

Hi and welcome to the vine, well done for starting to grow

Could you perhaps post a picture?

[rhyswales]

Hard to tell without a picture, are the leaves completely white or just spotty? If the spots then could be looking at a disease such as powdery mildew. If its happened on all the plants I'm leaning more towards a disease or cold damage but can't be sure without picture.

[WendyC]

Where are the plants now? You say you used propagating equipment, can you say exactly the process you went through?

[Jungle Jane]

White cucumber leaves & depending if theyre in direct sun when hardening off sounds like sun damage? It happens to tomatoes in direct sun too,the leaves are very tender when they're young & not used to the elements.

[cristalfiona]

Without a picture my first instinct from the description would be sun damage too. Are they on a sunny windowsill maybe? The sun coming through the glass can be quite brutal!

[SusieG]

Hello! Welcome to you Newgrower2016!

As they said above - show us your piccies - helps to 'see' what you're describing ....

It was a good job you sowed so many cucumber seeds NG2016, I usually find one plant for me (only I eat them in our household....!) is more than enough .....

Don't let this bit of a set-back put you off - it's always a learning curve. Also what works well one year doesn't necessarily mean it'll work the same next season .......