Zukes and cukes very few per plant this year!

Bobberman · Tue Sep 27, 2011 11:27 pm

For some reason my vine crops did not set much fruit per plant especially later in the summer. Has anyone else had this problem?

Francis Barnswallow · Wed Sep 28, 2011 1:38 am

SVB's wiped out my zucs this year.......again. Before the SVB's hit I the plant itself grew massive with lots of male flowers, and only a few females.

I'm pretty much done trying to grow zucs.

Bobberman · Wed Sep 28, 2011 1:55 am

Two years ago I grew zukes and had some wood chips mixed in the soil around them. The wood chips caused the zukes to die with in a few weeks! None of the 6 plants survived so I now watch to many wood chips! The wood chips seem to also bring bugs!

DoubleDogFarm · Wed Sep 28, 2011 2:34 am

Bobberman,

How's the health of the plants? Green, yellow, puny? Did you grow them in the same wood chip bed? Wood chips on the surface is ok, but mixed in is a bad idea. You may have been able to compensate by adding a high nitrogen fertilizer.

Eric

Bobberman · Wed Sep 28, 2011 2:53 am

No I did not use the wood chips the last two years! I do use urea sometimes or blood meal!

SPierce · Wed Sep 28, 2011 2:46 pm

I had one monster zucchini in a container that went nuts until it got hit by hail; the plants in my garden didn't do very well at all, though, and I pulled them before they even gave me one.

I planted another for a fall crop and it's just now starting to flower. Guess i'll see what happens!