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cucumbers
Paul Langford
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in Fruit & veg
I have 3 Socrates F1 cucumber plants which are the short type and all female. They have between them produced 11 cucumbers at the start of the plant but now the new ones further up are all turning yellow and rotting and the flower is not lasting long. The plants are in buckets with a separate pot inside so that they can be "ring" watered Any ideas
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Cucumber plants can only support so many fruits which is limited by the size of the root system and how much water that can supply, which will obviously be more limited in a pot than when in the ground. When the plants feels water-stressed, the first thing they will do is drop new flowers. As`soon as you harvest some of the cucumbers near the bottom, any new flowers which form will likely start setting again.