I discovered that cucumber plants are much more resistant to wilt if planted in a thick layer of compost in a no-till bed. The soil bacteria and fungi have a better chance to do their symbiotic actions with the plant roots. The no till bed with compost on top is at least a couple years old where the soil has a sustainable web of life established. The soil must remain moist or the microbes will die. It also helps a lot to be saving seeds from year to year for localized genetic vigor. Plan ahead for next year. 👣
This morning I had to go out and look at male and female flowers because of your pollination video 😆. But I was bummed to see I had none to pollinate 😕 all my female flowers were already wilted. But now I know what to look for! 😁
I think neem has been helping my bacterial wilt problem on cucumbers. My first planting died and my second planting started wilting and one plant died but since I've been spraying with neem I see new growth and no wilt.
I wanted to say thankyou for your videos as a new gardener ive learnt so much here and its helped me to sort any issues early on. so today i treated my tomato plants for the very very early signs of blossom end rot which i wouldn't of even known existed if i hadn't watched your videos and found what to look for and what to do to help this issue. so ive added some calcium to them today and also some tomato feed and im hoping the one plant resolves the issue its only on a few of the tomatoes that are starting the others are doing fine which is odd as in the same grow bag and no signs at all of anything amiss.
We literally just posted a video earlier today wondering why this is happening to our cucumbers!!! Unfortunately, now I know our problem is the cucumber beetles. The hybrid plants being more resistant to the problem makes total sense now as to why some plants have the problem worse than others in our garden. This is super helpful, thank you!!!!! 😊
Not all cucumbers with no cucurbitacin are hybrids. I'm growing Diva this year which is organic and not a hybrid. Just I planted them out at the end of June under insect mesh until they were over 3 feet tall. They sustained some beetle damage. I removed those leaves. According to information the pest pressure reduces in midsummer. They are also immune to some viruses and resistant to mildew. The cucumbers are not enormous but they are very sweet and juicy. There is a list available for those cucumbers that are not particularly attractive to cucumber beetles. One of the others in Lemon Cucumber. I can't remember the rest.
@@gabriellakadar See all of my diva cucumber plants wilted last year, even with removing beetles and pruning. This year I'm having the least problems with the Silver Slicer by Fruition Seeds, and the Space Saver cucumbers. I'm also growing 3 or 4 other varieties that are doing okay so far. The ones I had the most problems with were the Boston Pickling, and the Marketmore cucumbers. Picking off beetles and pruning leaves is a daily chore. The bugs are extra bad this year, but I think I'm getting ahead of it finally, maybe. 🤞🙂
@@TheBourneHomestead What I've read is not all beetles carry the bacteria. But if some do and the rest feed on plants that have been infected, then more of them also contain it. Also, midsummer time the numbers reduce. I haven't been seeing beetles recently and am also removing any leaves that are damaged in any way. I check the fluid coming out of stem ends and so far none of it is gummy. I am still not clear about how these bacteria survive from year to year. I have read that they don't survive in overwintering beetles or in the soil. Supposedly beetles will eat many different plants including wild grasses. But I have not found anywhere definitive as to what is the reservoir for the bacteria that causes wilt. Seemingly prior to the end of the 19th century wilt was not a problem.
@@gabriellakadar Wow this is super helpful, and interesting!! I for sure feel like this problem has gotten worse in recent years. I just started a new set of seeds to replace some of the plants we had to remove. We still have some beetles but my husband and I are pretty obsessed with manually removing bugs/hornworms at night from all the garden, and hopefully all the bad bugs will be mostly done by the time my fall garden starts really growing. Thank you Gabriella for taking the time to share that! Very much appreciated! ❤️
@@TheBourneHomestead My cucumber leaves have spots on them now. Not beetle damage. I bought Green Earth Bordo Copper fungicide spray (copper sulphate) and will spray them later today. I don't like using anything but it's okay according to organic farming rules.
I lost 7 plants this year to cucumber beetles. we got a bumper crop last year of cucumbers, plenty for pickles and eating, this year we got 3 total before all 7 plants died. I've got a late crop growing and trying to watch out for the beetles (waited a month and a half between the death of plants and planting the new ones in a different spot) hoping it pays off and I get a nice fall crop.
I'm convinced powdery mildew is pretty much impossible to get here in the Arizona desert haha. I do a quick spray of water on my cucumbers several times throughout the day during the heat of summer to cool them off. Same with pumpkin and squash. Pretty sure it's just too dry here haha
in Kentucky the cucumber beetles are relentless. picking them off for about 2 hrs every day and they still took me feom 14 down to 3 plants in main garden with the war still raging. my containers are still good so far but they have found them. I was able to pickle about 25 quarts of dill and B&B so not a total lose but they still knocked me down to 50% production this year. My 2nd direct sow got hit hard by Im assuming flee Beatles. Ive gotten some amazing tomatoes this year but peppers struggled which is weird for Ky, they usually thrive. but our spring rain season that usually ends by june never ended so could be the issue there. thank for the vid✌❤
I wish I had cucumbers this year, I planted two trilles and some kind of melons are growing instead so I guess there was a mixup when the seeds where packaged. I guess the good lord thought I needed melons this year.
Fantastic cucumber plant and wonderful space to sow it has many properties for the body I love it is a golden vegetable you already have a new friend here in your garden and thank you for the video friend
Mine had many flowers two weeks ago. I have a few curled oddly shaped cucumbers and all the leaves are now pale yellow… I just used Sassy Lady so hopefully that helps…. Looks like it’s on its last leg though.
Cucumbers on one side of my trellis are huge and beautiful and giving me a bucket full every other day, the other side of my trellis is literally yellow wilting and dying with no obvious reason as to why. I thought it was watering but after two weeks they haven't revived 🤷♀️ guess it's time to rip those out and try again!
Cucumber plants still looking good and producing lots of cucumbers! Hope that continues because it’s getting kind of late here in Iowa to replant. (Although I did just plant some Slicemaster and Beit Alpha seeds in another area of the garden.) I did try some companion planting this year (nasturtiums, marigolds and radishes), and usually by this time my cucumbers are starting to wilt, so maybe it actually works! Haven’t seen hardly any cucumber beetles.
Guy's great video What I have encountered was a spider on my cucumber plant. Later that part of the stim started to die off. From a healthy greenish look to a dark green color. Like whatever it was injected with killed that part of the plant. Second time I've seen this.
Thank you for these videos! I need them this year. Vine borers are in high gear this year & I keep picking the dang cucumber beetles. I'm going to try planting a fall harvest to see if it goes better. It's been an abnormally hot, dry year for me. 💚🌞
@@williamobryan682 I found another 7 vine borers this morning. There's also a couple other plants with signs of borers that I'll look at tomorrow. So yup, they're here... I think I might've planted my butternut squash late enough to avoid them since they were not much more than a seedling for most of July. The summer squash that already started producing in late June however had a lot of borers.
Last year, my cucumber leaves were getting oddly wilty and then crispy. After ruling out heat, water, and plain old aging, I realized that they had red spider mites. Vicious things. They both sucked and smothered the life out of my cukes and some of my squash.
Can you do a video on how to deal with cucumber beetles? I've had pretty heavy pest pressure up here in Eastern Ontario this year. Lots of cabbage moths, a ridiculous amount of Japanese beetles (so much so that all the stores are sold out of traps because everybody has at least two on their property; we have to empty our trap 3-4 times a week!!!), cucumber beetles on all my cucurbits, and squash vine borers. I started my season off losing half my tomato and cucumbers to a rabbit :(. I started most of the garden from seed this year for the first time, so the plants have a special place in my heart. I've fended off most of the other pests pretty well. One of my sure thing hybrid zucchini got the mosaic virus but is battling through it after 4 weeks and still producing! I've tried yellow adhesive traps for the cucumber beetles, but those seemed to have stopped working. For most of the pests I've resorted to homemade sprays with cayenne pepper, garlic, onions, and dish soap (nasty smelly stuff). My neighbours would laugh at me because I would patrol my garden with a fly swatter for about a week and a half killing squash vine borer moths. Guess who doesn't have any squash vine borers though!:). Appreciate the content. About three years ago I started gardening because I found your videos. Mostly vegetables but I've been dappling in flowers and landscaping this year. I flower garden with my aunts, grandmother, and mom. I built two raised beds (12'x4'x1') in addition to my original in-ground garden this year and have been really enjoying my time outside. It's my fourth growing season and I have made vast improvements to my garden each year because of your content. At only 19 years of age, I'm excited for my future growing seasons and look forward to improving as a gardener. Once again thanks for the content and inspiring me to start producing my own food for my neighbours and family. Cheers!
@@ttb1513 They are black with two antennae that curl towards the top (almost like a sickle). They're actually pretty large and have a reddish/orange/rust coloured abdomen with 4 vertical black dots on it. It's much easier to look up a picture. I identified the moth by taking a picture of it and then looking up moths with some of the same characteristics until I found a match.
I love ur vids man cause whenever I notice a problem and think ah not a big deal u upload a vid explaining what that problem is and how to deal with it cause ur In the same zone as me lol
Haha. I was just thinking this as I was watering my cucumbers plants this morning. Thanks for the info! But when do you know that they're "done" and need to rip them out for another batch of cucumbers?
Mine are starting to succumb to the damned beetles. I had more of these little pests this year it seems like. My zucchini are surviving the beetles just fine although I was concerned at first that I wouldn't get a good harvest. I'm growing the Clarimore from Renees Seeds and they are a fabulous sweet variety with pale green skin. My cukes are the Early Fortune from Baker Creek and they are definitely starting to wilt from the bottom. However, still plenty of nice growth on them and they are producing enough so I'm not too worried yet, but in another couple of weeks they may be done for. The Alpha Beit from Baker Creek is an Israeli cucumber and those are still going strong without too much damage from the beetles so far.
Me too. I have two plants that are alive but the beetles are now eating the cucumbers on the vines. Can’t get rid of them no matter what I have put on my plants !
@@jogordon1530 I'm picking off dozens of beetles per day and there's still more. I'm down to 11 out of 18 plants now but I think it'll be a lot less than that soon.
My previously healthy cucumber plants began to have pale yellow spots all over the leaves, spots ranging from dime size to a quarter {25 cent} size. Perhaps the work of the Cucumber beetle delivering Mosaic disease? I'm starting new cucumber plants.
The 4th reason is insects girding the base of the main stem at ground level. I've lost cukes, tomato & pepper plants due to this. I suspect roly polys (pill bugs).
Believe it or not, my issue is millipedes! I straight up caught them munching. I've resorted to planting my seeds in toilet paper rolls. I hope it works.
We’ve lost all out cucumbers the last 2 years to the bacterial wilt. I replanted and been using neem oil to get rid of the cucumber beetles. So far so good, but the pumpkins seems to really attract the beetles. Will have to plant less things to attract the beetles going forward
snipping off the top of certain plants at a desired height can stop the vertical growth of the plant to improve production. does this also work with cukes?
When we got a lot of rain during July in MI, my cucumbers were in a flooded area of my garden. My plants are huge but are just starting to produce cucumbers. How long should the give me fruit?
Those dang cucumber beetles eat holes in my amaranth leaves galore, I guess they now moved on to my cuces.... I bought a jar of pickles today was so hungry for them, organic dill oh it was a little piece of heaven! With mine if I get enough I will ferment them, but every now and then I crave dill cucumbers in a vinegar brine😁
Thank you for this video! I have three cucumber plants and one seem to be experiencing cucumber wilt, and now I have a second one experiencing it. Should I remove both of the bad ones? is the third one still at risk?
Concerned about my Minnesota Midgets. The plants are turning yellow, some dead leaves. Had too much rain. Wondering what I can do to save them. They are in a huge grow bag in really good soil with good drainage. They have little melons all over that I don't want to lose.
I have been struggling with this, replanted the cukes 5 times, but something is making the vines die at about 6incnes.. I haven't noticed any beetles on the sick plants. So frustrating!
Look up info on squash vine borer. They get at the base of the plant. Very frustrating! I wrapped most of my vining crops in foil at base, an inch below dirt and 3+” above. Saved 80% of them from it this year. Good luck!
I transplanted cuc seedlings @ 21 days. it was 55 degrees and slightly windy on my patio where I did it. 44 plants - by the time I finished the leaves of all of them were wilted. I brought them inside and watered. The leaves went from wilted to curled up and are still like that the next day. Transplant shock? Will they recover? Any tips?
After losing my cucumber crop last year to angular leaf spot disease, I decided to grow Eureka F1 cucumbers because they're supposed to be the most disease resistant variety. However, a couple weeks ago I noticed individual leaves wilting and drying up, just a few here and there. Now several vines on my plants have wilted, and I picked off some cucumber beetles the other day, so I know the culprit. I checked again and the Eureka F1 are resistant to almost all diseases _except_ bacterial wilt. I didn't have the foresight to intercrop my cucumbers with radishes, so I sprayed them with BT + tobacco, but it's probably too late. I know the advice is to remove the infected plants, but they're tangled up with the healthy plants so that might be impossible. It's probably too late to start another batch of cucumber seeds, so I'm not really sure what to do now.
@@fredrickvoncold I'm just not growing cucumbers anymore. My focus this year is on angled luffa, bitter melon, Tahitian butternut, honeynut, wax gourd, watermelon, and kabocha.
@@FrozEnbyWolf150 thats a interesting mix . I just had my heart set on armenian cucumbers . It looks like its going to be a battle to get them with all the beetles around. thanks for reply
I'm at Michigan's 45 th parallel. My pickle cukes have been ripening for three weeks and knock on wood, I have no PM and no bugs. Now I need to go to the exes and see if she will let me cut some of hers. Lol.
I do the same. I think morning watering is more of a safety net in case you do get them wet the water will evaporate before anything bad can get established.
They need morning sun to adjust the heat. Water the plants not the leaves in heat will help them. It's best to plant where they have morning sun. I have canals that has a small pipe going to it's roots and water when they wilt because of heat.
GM why with s much flower is die I really take care my garden it is s much hot over here in GA but I put eater every day because the heat is horrible can you please let m know why
So what do you do if you suspect your cucumber plants were effective by cucumber beetles. Do you have to remove the whole plant or can remove effective part of the plant
I need help. I’m in Michigan too. Yesterday’s (5/17) weather was 38 degree. I didn’t cover none of my plants. This morning my cucumber plants started to look like yours at the top. Wilted. I watered it last night. Could it be due to the cold? I went out to check again and the bottom leaves are turning pale white.
I lost 40 feet of trellis cucumbers this year to Cucumber Mosaic virus. First time I've ever dealt with it. Do you have any advice or videos about this virus?
I had a cucumber plant just dry up and die quickly. It wasn't that hot and i always watered well. I had sprayed with horticultural oil at night. Was it disease, pest or did the oil burn the leaves in the sun the next day?
Good info! I'm new at gardening & planted pickling cucumbers. Instead of producing cute little green pickles they have made round orange ones. Is this a nitrogen thing too? My beds are still in pretty rough shape this year.
I had powdery mildew on my rose bush for 2 years. I tried literally everything to get rid of it. The only thing that finally worked was a cocktail of stuff I got a spray for it, it was extremely expensive it was specifically for rose bush so it doesn't matter what it was. I mixed it with a powder I found it was my grandfather's he's been dead for years but he was a farmer and had all the good stuff it was a copper based fungicide. Sprayed like full on Sprayed with a hose not mist. And cut all the mildew off. I also started ground watering and it finally has been gone for the first year. Get a spray for it and smother it and ground water. It worked for me. I hate powdery mildew it is the worst and so hard to get rid of.
How do you get rid of the damn cucumber beetles? I have tried Neem Oil and other heavy commercial pesticides and I can’t seem to get them to go away. Also I was told to rotate my crops so I wouldn’t get them while they spend their winter hidden in my organic raised beds. I also have them on my zucchini but my zucchini really took off this year so no complaints there. I just can’t seem to grow cucumbers at all because the damn beetles come back every year and I have absolutely no luck growing them. Any help you can recommend?
My cucumber plant has no more leaves at the bottom....all the leaves are at the top and the wilting is moving up as the tree grows higher and the leaves at the bottom do not grow back neither are there any flowers....what could be the problem?
I discovered that cucumber plants are much more resistant to wilt if planted in a thick layer of compost in a no-till bed. The soil bacteria and fungi have a better chance to do their symbiotic actions with the plant roots. The no till bed with compost on top is at least a couple years old where the soil has a sustainable web of life established. The soil must remain moist or the microbes will die. It also helps a lot to be saving seeds from year to year for localized genetic vigor. Plan ahead for next year. 👣
This morning I had to go out and look at male and female flowers because of your pollination video 😆.
But I was bummed to see I had none to pollinate 😕 all my female flowers were already wilted. But now I know what to look for! 😁
Quick but good explanations. Good info. Take care.
I think neem has been helping my bacterial wilt problem on cucumbers. My first planting died and my second planting started wilting and one plant died but since I've been spraying with neem I see new growth and no wilt.
I wanted to say thankyou for your videos as a new gardener ive learnt so much here and its helped me to sort any issues early on. so today i treated my tomato plants for the very very early signs of blossom end rot which i wouldn't of even known existed if i hadn't watched your videos and found what to look for and what to do to help this issue. so ive added some calcium to them today and also some tomato feed and im hoping the one plant resolves the issue its only on a few of the tomatoes that are starting the others are doing fine which is odd as in the same grow bag and no signs at all of anything amiss.
Using a drip irrigation system now. So easy and great for 🍅
We literally just posted a video earlier today wondering why this is happening to our cucumbers!!! Unfortunately, now I know our problem is the cucumber beetles. The hybrid plants being more resistant to the problem makes total sense now as to why some plants have the problem worse than others in our garden. This is super helpful, thank you!!!!! 😊
Not all cucumbers with no cucurbitacin are hybrids. I'm growing Diva this year which is organic and not a hybrid. Just I planted them out at the end of June under insect mesh until they were over 3 feet tall. They sustained some beetle damage. I removed those leaves. According to information the pest pressure reduces in midsummer. They are also
immune to some viruses and resistant to mildew. The cucumbers are not enormous but they are very sweet and juicy. There is a list available for those cucumbers that are
not particularly attractive to cucumber beetles. One of the others in Lemon Cucumber. I can't remember the rest.
@@gabriellakadar See all of my diva cucumber plants wilted last year, even with removing beetles and pruning. This year I'm having the least problems with the Silver Slicer by Fruition Seeds, and the Space Saver cucumbers. I'm also growing 3 or 4 other varieties that are doing okay so far. The ones I had the most problems with were the Boston Pickling, and the Marketmore cucumbers. Picking off beetles and pruning leaves is a daily chore. The bugs are extra bad this year, but I think I'm getting ahead of it finally, maybe. 🤞🙂
@@TheBourneHomestead What I've read is not all beetles carry the bacteria. But
if some do and the rest feed on plants that have been infected, then more of them also contain it.
Also, midsummer time the numbers reduce. I haven't been seeing beetles recently
and am also removing any leaves that are damaged in any way. I check the fluid
coming out of stem ends and so far none of it is gummy.
I am still not clear about how these bacteria survive from year to year. I have read
that they don't survive in overwintering beetles or in the soil. Supposedly beetles
will eat many different plants including wild grasses. But I have not found anywhere
definitive as to what is the reservoir for the bacteria that causes wilt.
Seemingly prior to the end of the 19th century wilt was not a problem.
@@gabriellakadar Wow this is super helpful, and interesting!! I for sure feel like this problem has gotten worse in recent years. I just started a new set of seeds to replace some of the plants we had to remove. We still have some beetles but my husband and I are pretty obsessed with manually removing bugs/hornworms at night from all the garden, and hopefully all the bad bugs will be mostly done by the time my fall garden starts really growing. Thank you Gabriella for taking the time to share that! Very much appreciated! ❤️
@@TheBourneHomestead My cucumber leaves have spots on them now. Not beetle damage. I bought Green Earth Bordo Copper fungicide spray (copper sulphate) and will spray them later today. I don't like using anything but it's
okay according to organic farming rules.
I lost 7 plants this year to cucumber beetles. we got a bumper crop last year of cucumbers, plenty for pickles and eating, this year we got 3 total before all 7 plants died. I've got a late crop growing and trying to watch out for the beetles (waited a month and a half between the death of plants and planting the new ones in a different spot) hoping it pays off and I get a nice fall crop.
Just put down my cucumbers yesterday because of sudden wilting 😥 Thank you so much for your video!
Love the biology 101 tidbits. Xylem, phloem, stomata 💚
I'm convinced powdery mildew is pretty much impossible to get here in the Arizona desert haha. I do a quick spray of water on my cucumbers several times throughout the day during the heat of summer to cool them off. Same with pumpkin and squash. Pretty sure it's just too dry here haha
Perfect! You have answered my yesterday question for my cucumbers questions! Thank you; unfortunately I have cucumbers beetles 😢
Cucumber beetles destroyed our Cucumber and squash plants. Very discouraging.
Mine as well 😔 I planted more seeds
Lots of flowers, weak white stems and for sure attacked by the Beatles.
It happens. Better luck next year
Invest in growing a trap crop
I been growing mine but something is wrong with it I think it's the heat
Planted my first migardener seeds about a week ago, got my first seedlings yesterday
I LOVE my MIGARDENER seeds!
I'm starting my fall planting of MIG Atomic Red carrots and another ongoing batch of delicious lettuce variations today!
in Kentucky the cucumber beetles are relentless. picking them off for about 2 hrs every day and they still took me feom 14 down to 3 plants in main garden with the war still raging. my containers are still good so far but they have found them.
I was able to pickle about 25 quarts of dill and B&B so not a total lose but they still knocked me down to 50% production this year. My 2nd direct sow got hit hard by Im assuming flee Beatles.
Ive gotten some amazing tomatoes this year but peppers struggled which is weird for Ky, they usually thrive. but our spring rain season that usually ends by june never ended so could be the issue there. thank for the vid✌❤
I wish I had cucumbers this year, I planted two trilles and some kind of melons are growing instead so I guess there was a mixup when the seeds where packaged. I guess the good lord thought I needed melons this year.
Fantastic cucumber plant and wonderful space to sow it has many properties for the body I love it is a golden vegetable you already have a new friend here in your garden and thank you for the video friend
Like always, I learned something new 😊
Mine had many flowers two weeks ago. I have a few curled oddly shaped cucumbers and all the leaves are now pale yellow… I just used Sassy Lady so hopefully that helps…. Looks like it’s on its last leg though.
Mine too
super video. really good timing.
Cucumbers on one side of my trellis are huge and beautiful and giving me a bucket full every other day, the other side of my trellis is literally yellow wilting and dying with no obvious reason as to why. I thought it was watering but after two weeks they haven't revived 🤷♀️ guess it's time to rip those out and try again!
Cucumber plants still looking good and producing lots of cucumbers! Hope that continues because it’s getting kind of late here in Iowa to replant. (Although I did just plant some Slicemaster and Beit Alpha seeds in another area of the garden.) I did try some companion planting this year (nasturtiums, marigolds and radishes), and usually by this time my cucumbers are starting to wilt, so maybe it actually works! Haven’t seen hardly any cucumber beetles.
Guy's great video
What I have encountered was a spider on my cucumber plant. Later that part of the stim started to die off. From a healthy greenish look to a dark green color. Like whatever it was injected with killed that part of the plant. Second time I've seen this.
Thank you for these videos! I need them this year. Vine borers are in high gear this year & I keep picking the dang cucumber beetles. I'm going to try planting a fall harvest to see if it goes better. It's been an abnormally hot, dry year for me. 💚🌞
Only found 1 vine borer so far, but thousands of cucumber bettles...
Detroit. Borers have been insane this year. My Punkin patch. Used bt to beat them back.
I've already pulled 3 pumpkin vines & 2 cukes. It's frustrating.
Get your syringe and aim for the vine , not the vein. They recover .
@@williamobryan682 I found another 7 vine borers this morning. There's also a couple other plants with signs of borers that I'll look at tomorrow. So yup, they're here... I think I might've planted my butternut squash late enough to avoid them since they were not much more than a seedling for most of July. The summer squash that already started producing in late June however had a lot of borers.
Thank you for this video!!! Unfortunately ours succumbed to groundhogs! Could you show the photo of the beetle?
Last year, my cucumber leaves were getting oddly wilty and then crispy. After ruling out heat, water, and plain old aging, I realized that they had red spider mites. Vicious things. They both sucked and smothered the life out of my cukes and some of my squash.
😥
Can you do a video on how to deal with cucumber beetles? I've had pretty heavy pest pressure up here in Eastern Ontario this year. Lots of cabbage moths, a ridiculous amount of Japanese beetles (so much so that all the stores are sold out of traps because everybody has at least two on their property; we have to empty our trap 3-4 times a week!!!), cucumber beetles on all my cucurbits, and squash vine borers.
I started my season off losing half my tomato and cucumbers to a rabbit :(. I started most of the garden from seed this year for the first time, so the plants have a special place in my heart. I've fended off most of the other pests pretty well. One of my sure thing hybrid zucchini got the mosaic virus but is battling through it after 4 weeks and still producing! I've tried yellow adhesive traps for the cucumber beetles, but those seemed to have stopped working. For most of the pests I've resorted to homemade sprays with cayenne pepper, garlic, onions, and dish soap (nasty smelly stuff). My neighbours would laugh at me because I would patrol my garden with a fly swatter for about a week and a half killing squash vine borer moths. Guess who doesn't have any squash vine borers though!:).
Appreciate the content. About three years ago I started gardening because I found your videos. Mostly vegetables but I've been dappling in flowers and landscaping this year. I flower garden with my aunts, grandmother, and mom. I built two raised beds (12'x4'x1') in addition to my original in-ground garden this year and have been really enjoying my time outside. It's my fourth growing season and I have made vast improvements to my garden each year because of your content. At only 19 years of age, I'm excited for my future growing seasons and look forward to improving as a gardener.
Once again thanks for the content and inspiring me to start producing my own food for my neighbours and family. Cheers!
How would you describe what a squash vine borer moth looks like?
Sounds like you are learning a lot and steadily progressing!
@@ttb1513 They are black with two antennae that curl towards the top (almost like a sickle). They're actually pretty large and have a reddish/orange/rust coloured abdomen with 4 vertical black dots on it. It's much easier to look up a picture. I identified the moth by taking a picture of it and then looking up moths with some of the same characteristics until I found a match.
This is exactly what I was worried about this morning!!!!
Very informative thank you so much.
I love ur vids man cause whenever I notice a problem and think ah not a big deal u upload a vid explaining what that problem is and how to deal with it cause ur In the same zone as me lol
Very informative. Enjoy watching.
Haha. I was just thinking this as I was watering my cucumbers plants this morning. Thanks for the info! But when do you know that they're "done" and need to rip them out for another batch of cucumbers?
if their health is in decline, rip them out and replant.
Cut the stem out, leave the roots in the ground without disturbing soil and plant more seed right there is what I do
@@JohnDoe_88 what is the benefit of this? New to growing anything and have cucumbers that will be done soon.
@@MIgardener not what i wanted to hear but thank you.
Mine are starting to succumb to the damned beetles. I had more of these little pests this year it seems like. My zucchini are surviving the beetles just fine although I was concerned at first that I wouldn't get a good harvest. I'm growing the Clarimore from Renees Seeds and they are a fabulous sweet variety with pale green skin. My cukes are the Early Fortune from Baker Creek and they are definitely starting to wilt from the bottom. However, still plenty of nice growth on them and they are producing enough so I'm not too worried yet, but in another couple of weeks they may be done for. The Alpha Beit from Baker Creek is an Israeli cucumber and those are still going strong without too much damage from the beetles so far.
Helpful! Thanks!
When it's really hot, and my cucumbers are wilting, I put shade cloth over it. Seemed to help. But not growing very well.
Plants all have a sweet spot. Summer time is just hard on plants in general.
Very informative thank you dang beetles 😩prolly got mine !
Nice tips thanks!
Interesting! good things to consider. TY
We lost all of our cucumbers this season to wilt. So sad. We had to rip them all out.
Me too. I have two plants that are alive but the beetles are now eating the cucumbers on the vines. Can’t get rid of them no matter what I have put on my plants !
Same here.
Same here. They looked wonderful and then a few days later, wilted. Then gone. Ugh
Same. I got some cukes but one day that was it
@@jogordon1530 I'm picking off dozens of beetles per day and there's still more. I'm down to 11 out of 18 plants now but I think it'll be a lot less than that soon.
My previously healthy cucumber plants began to have pale yellow spots all over the leaves, spots ranging from dime size to a quarter {25 cent} size. Perhaps the work of the Cucumber beetle delivering Mosaic disease? I'm starting new cucumber plants.
Might be blight, if so trim off infected leaves and increase airflow. Water only early morning and try not to get the leaves wet. Good luck!
Thanks
Thin leaves always wilt faster than thicker ones - if it’s heat related.
Drip irrigation will allow you to water in the evening...
The 4th reason is insects girding the base of the main stem at ground level. I've lost cukes, tomato & pepper plants due to this. I suspect roly polys (pill bugs).
Cutworms, perhaps?
What does girding the base of the main stem mean? How do they do this?
Believe it or not, my issue is millipedes! I straight up caught them munching. I've resorted to planting my seeds in toilet paper rolls. I hope it works.
@@AVSgirl1985 chewing around the whole base of the plant .... killing it.
@@straubdavid9 thank you! We have endless rolly pollys....any fix for them?
We lost all our cucumbers this season to cucumber wilt. So sad. Had to rip them all up
You can still replant!
We’ve lost all out cucumbers the last 2 years to the bacterial wilt.
I replanted and been using neem oil to get rid of the cucumber beetles. So far so good, but the pumpkins seems to really attract the beetles. Will have to plant less things to attract the beetles going forward
@@samkojiro1010 Neem Oil did absolutely nothing for me. Cucumber beetles killed them all.
@@MIgardener How late into to the year can you plant cucumbers?
snipping off the top of certain plants at a desired height can stop the vertical growth of the plant to improve production. does this also work with cukes?
Thank you
When we got a lot of rain during July in MI, my cucumbers were in a flooded area of my garden. My plants are huge but are just starting to produce cucumbers. How long should the give me fruit?
Mine are just starting to get going, lots of cukes. I planted late. Im going to let them go until frost since they are in 5 gallon buckets
Those dang cucumber beetles eat holes in my amaranth leaves galore, I guess they now moved on to my cuces.... I bought a jar of pickles today was so hungry for them, organic dill oh it was a little piece of heaven! With mine if I get enough I will ferment them, but every now and then I crave dill cucumbers in a vinegar brine😁
Thank you for this video! I have three cucumber plants and one seem to be experiencing cucumber wilt, and now I have a second one experiencing it. Should I remove both of the bad ones? is the third one still at risk?
Concerned about my Minnesota Midgets. The plants are turning yellow, some dead leaves. Had too much rain. Wondering what I can do to save them. They are in a huge grow bag in really good soil with good drainage. They have little melons all over that I don't want to lose.
I have been struggling with this, replanted the cukes 5 times, but something is making the vines die at about 6incnes.. I haven't noticed any beetles on the sick plants. So frustrating!
The vines just shrivel up and die? I think cucumber beetles like to lay their eggs at the base of seedlings and then the larvae eat the roots.
@@Lochness19 might be it. Yes, they look great, then about 6 inches, overnight yellow and shrivel.
Look up info on squash vine borer. They get at the base of the plant. Very frustrating! I wrapped most of my vining crops in foil at base, an inch below dirt and 3+” above. Saved 80% of them from it this year. Good luck!
@@mammastreed5070 That sounds like a great idea! I should try that! Thank you!
The foil for the little ones , if the borers are already in , bt and syringe. They will recover.
Are the cucumbers ok to eat if the plant has been wilted from disease or beetles?
Home growing towards 1million brother! Keep calm and grow veg.
I transplanted cuc seedlings @ 21 days. it was 55 degrees and slightly windy on my patio where I did it. 44 plants - by the time I finished the leaves of all of them were wilted. I brought them inside and watered. The leaves went from wilted to curled up and are still like that the next day. Transplant shock? Will they recover? Any tips?
After losing my cucumber crop last year to angular leaf spot disease, I decided to grow Eureka F1 cucumbers because they're supposed to be the most disease resistant variety. However, a couple weeks ago I noticed individual leaves wilting and drying up, just a few here and there. Now several vines on my plants have wilted, and I picked off some cucumber beetles the other day, so I know the culprit. I checked again and the Eureka F1 are resistant to almost all diseases _except_ bacterial wilt. I didn't have the foresight to intercrop my cucumbers with radishes, so I sprayed them with BT + tobacco, but it's probably too late.
I know the advice is to remove the infected plants, but they're tangled up with the healthy plants so that might be impossible. It's probably too late to start another batch of cucumber seeds, so I'm not really sure what to do now.
I have the same problem . I hope the other plants survive.
@@fredrickvoncold I'm just not growing cucumbers anymore. My focus this year is on angled luffa, bitter melon, Tahitian butternut, honeynut, wax gourd, watermelon, and kabocha.
@@FrozEnbyWolf150 thats a interesting mix . I just had my heart set on armenian cucumbers . It looks like its going to be a battle to get them with all the beetles around. thanks for reply
I'm at Michigan's 45 th parallel.
My pickle cukes have been ripening for three weeks and knock on wood, I have no PM and no bugs.
Now I need to go to the exes and see if she will let me cut some of hers. Lol.
I also just learned that harvesting incorrectly (pulling instead of cutting) can cause the plant to wilt and stop producing (whoops!).
What if you water at night, but direct it to the base so the foliage does not get wet? This seems to be working for me so far?
I do the same. I think morning watering is more of a safety net in case you do get them wet the water will evaporate before anything bad can get established.
I've been annihilated by cucumber beetles this year. Lost almost all of my spaghetti squash plants do to that disease they bring.... 😭
They need morning sun to adjust the heat. Water the plants not the leaves in heat will help them. It's best to plant where they have morning sun. I have canals that has a small pipe going to it's roots and water when they wilt because of heat.
I cannot find any pests but tough to control the invisible pests!!!!
The word you are looking for is turgid...related to turgor pressure.
Mlgardener Can you post a video about effective homemade pest and disease sprays for your garden?
He already has some !go check them out !
It would only take a few seconds. It would be a video where he just flashes the web address referring you to his website. 😂
Pinched some of the yellowing leaves off my huge plant that was doing *so* well, and it wilted and died. 😢
Does neem work for cucumber beetles?
GM why with s much flower is die I really take care my garden it is s much hot over here in GA but I put eater every day because the heat is horrible can you please let m know why
So what do you do if you suspect your cucumber plants were effective by cucumber beetles. Do you have to remove the whole plant or can remove effective part of the plant
For the algorithm.
User engagement!
Beetles got mine this year
Turged. A word I learned in landscape school
Do you mean turgid? Many people here are mentionning it and also I don't find turged in any dictionary.
Great inputs 👏👍
The word you were looking for is turgid.
Natural ways to get rid of the cucumber beetle? I have a huge problem with them this year!
What can you do to prevent cucumber beetles ?
I need help. I’m in Michigan too. Yesterday’s (5/17) weather was 38 degree. I didn’t cover none of my plants. This morning my cucumber plants started to look like yours at the top. Wilted. I watered it last night. Could it be due to the cold? I went out to check again and the bottom leaves are turning pale white.
some kind of infection at ground level of the stem can be terminal too
Part 4 of the cucumber saga continues!
Gopher s made their home under our cucumber bed. I’m sure their eating or making it hard for the roots🥒
My cucumbers are not producing 😞, I stared another plants I hope I get at least some, is been hot here in Texas 8a
So if I have powdery mildew it will not spread in the morning??? It just spreds during the day and evening???? Please explain thank you for the help.
I lost 40 feet of trellis cucumbers this year to Cucumber Mosaic virus. First time I've ever dealt with it. Do you have any advice or videos about this virus?
I had a cucumber plant just dry up and die quickly. It wasn't that hot and i always watered well. I had sprayed with horticultural oil at night. Was it disease, pest or did the oil burn the leaves in the sun the next day?
clarification: transplanted from small cells to pots (prob waited too long; some lost some of the bottom of the bulb/roots -
WHAT IF THEY ARE DROOPY EXCEPT THE TOP NEW GROWTH? i HAVE 2 OTHER PLANTS IN SAME LARGE POT AND THEY ARE FINE
tried all the fixes, now the plants are dying, are the cucumbers safe to eat that are on the plant before i destroy the entire plant
Good info! I'm new at gardening & planted pickling cucumbers. Instead of producing cute little green pickles they have made round orange ones. Is this a nitrogen thing too? My beds are still in pretty rough shape this year.
@marj rose. you probably planted the lemon cucumber.
@@Lynne717 whatever they are, they still taste good. 😁 Thx!
@@marjrose3640 yes those are delicious. Enjoy 👍
Can you post pictures of the cucumber beetles. I believe they are yellow and brown
Will BTK kill the beetles? I lost most of my cucumbers this year.
I’m having issues with those beetles this terribly as well as squash bugs
Mine has fallen over but seems fine some of the flowers are good but some of them died btw planted in a pot
Thanks Luke. My cucumbers are getting pummeled. How do I treat powdery mildew? I have it on a lot of my pumpkin leaves.
I had powdery mildew on my rose bush for 2 years. I tried literally everything to get rid of it. The only thing that finally worked was a cocktail of stuff I got a spray for it, it was extremely expensive it was specifically for rose bush so it doesn't matter what it was. I mixed it with a powder I found it was my grandfather's he's been dead for years but he was a farmer and had all the good stuff it was a copper based fungicide. Sprayed like full on Sprayed with a hose not mist. And cut all the mildew off. I also started ground watering and it finally has been gone for the first year. Get a spray for it and smother it and ground water. It worked for me. I hate powdery mildew it is the worst and so hard to get rid of.
@יונתן זנטון I did use milk and it helped it did not get rid of it. Next time it rained it came back with a vengeance. Like I said I tried everything.
H202. Hydrogen peroxide.
which varieties do you suggest. lost all my cukes except one. i have it hid under my 4 o'clocks.
How do you get rid of the damn cucumber beetles? I have tried Neem Oil and other heavy commercial pesticides and I can’t seem to get them to go away. Also I was told to rotate my crops so I wouldn’t get them while they spend their winter hidden in my organic raised beds. I also have them on my zucchini but my zucchini really took off this year so no complaints there. I just can’t seem to grow cucumbers at all because the damn beetles come back every year and I have absolutely no luck growing them. Any help you can recommend?
Tiny seed cucumbers grow but then wilt off, the the large leaves are green! Help please!
Yes I can’t get my FIL to understand to stop watering in the evening while sun s still on his plants thank our lord he’s not touching my garden lol
Do some birds eat cucumber beetles ?
Thx for the video
Noticed some beetles in the flowers but had no idea. Guess nxt time I will trap them with tape
My chickens like them. Still have got to manually pick them though.
My cucumber plant has no more leaves at the bottom....all the leaves are at the top and the wilting is moving up as the tree grows higher and the leaves at the bottom do not grow back neither are there any flowers....what could be the problem?
the lower leaves are "PERKY"
“Turgid “ is the word…