Cucumbers
I am trying to grow cucumbers in pots for my greenhouse, I use seed compost and three" fiber pots I put them on a cool window as soon as they start to shoot, they come good but when they get to 3/4ins fast and then they just seem to collapse and die what am I doing wrong
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Cucumbers
KINAISAAC1943
wrote in : I am trying to grow cucumbers in pots for my greenhouse, I use seed compost and three" fiber pots I put them on a cool window as soon as they start to shoot, they come good but when they get to 3/4ins fast and then they just seem to collapse and die what am I doing wrong what temperature is the greenhouse? is the compost sterilised? cucumbers are a hot weather crop. the seedlings need to be warm (above 70F). if your greenhouse or the 'cool windowsill' is much below 68F they're getting too cold. are you getting fungus or just falling over wilting? lee -- Last night while sitting in my chair I pinged a host that wasn't there It wasn't there again today The host resolved to NSA. |
It is not to cold, they grow so fast like 4" in just eight days I put them on the window to stop them bolting but this did not work I keep them just over damp the stalks are long but the leaves are big and that makes them top heavy so they just collapse
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Cucumbers
Sounds like it dampening off. Try covering the top of the soil with
something that don't hold moisture even sand. I think it is a fungas that lives in the damp soil. Google dampening off. From Mel & Donnie in Bluebird Valley http://community.webtv.net/MelKelly/TheKids |
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