November 21, 2024

27 thoughts on “VIDEO: 3 Reasons Your Cucumber Plants Suddenly Wilt

  1. 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✌❤

  2. 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?

  3. I've found that cucumber beatles like to lay eggs in the flowers and at the base of your plants and the larvae will feed on the roots and base of the plant and will cause the plants to wilt. They're basically killing them in a very similar way as the squash vine borer(SVB) except for the Beatles larvae come and go from the base of plants unlike the SVB which basically live inside the vine.
    Picking up dead flowers and using Beneficial nematodes can be effective in preventing this problem and the beatles from increasing their numbers.

  4. I have spent about $200.00 Canadian on Organic type pesticides to harvest enough cucumbers for 6 jars of relish… Striped Cucumber Beetles bite !
    D Earth, Trounce, Neem Oil, sticky traps, lime, wood ash.. you name it, I have tried it…
    I also planted radishes with my zucchini, pumpkins, watermelon and cucumber plants.
    any things that actually work that others can advise about ?

  5. 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

  6. 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.

  7. WHAT HAPPENS IF THE COOLEST PART OF THE DAY IS 90 DEGREES? LOL MY AFTERNOON IS 115 TO 125 DEGREES, BY 10AM IT'S OVER 100. JUST WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW THAT I LIVE IN THE DESERT OF LAAKE HAVASU CITY AZ AND WE SUFFER THIS KIND OF HEAT EVERY SUMMER, IT'S BEEN 110 PLUS SINCE JUNE…..LOL

  8. 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.

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