cucumber scortch...

[hiyatim]

I think this is scortch but i thought i should check, im annoyed if it is as im very careful to water at the base so it can only be from the rain...

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hope these pics are a little bigger than the last ones i uploaded

[Hollie the Wollie]

Oh no... Im no expert but this looks remarkably similar to what my 'cumbers had, but mine were alot smaller and it had effected the majority of the leaf. Oh good luck!!!!

[DavidT]

It looks like a mineral deficiency to me.

[hiyatim]

i have fed them once with an organic vegetable feed and blood and bone, that was a few weeks back now, should i give them some tomatoe feed as ive heard that it is good for tom's/cuc's/pepper's/courgettes...

[DavidT]

If they are in flower, then yes, feed with tomato feed. Like tomatoes, cucumbers shouldn`t be fed until they have started flowering.

[hiyatim]

they arent in flower, is there anything else i can do now to help them out..the packet of organic feed i have says only to feed them twice over the whole season

[DavidT]

Apart from making sure they don`t dry out, then, no. Start feeding when the flowers appear.

[hiyatim]

ok thanks will do, my courgettes got their first flower today so hopefully the cuc's arent too far behind, when i saw the courgette flower i was really shocked, didnt expect it to be so big, it was still pretty closed so i was like 'what the heck is that' then i realized and was really excited

[airconednightmare]

some kind of low NPK + high trace element feed such as sea weed juice?

bigger pots?

[DavidT]

Like a giant cucumber flower.

[hiyatim]

i think the seaweed juice is same principle as tomato feed, dont start til flowers come...

ive never seen cucumber flower either so i will look forward to seeing them