Cucumber Plant Leaves Wilting. The plants are well equipped for producing their juicy, flavorful fruit. 7 replies 1772 views june 19, 2010, 20:11 by kt :
Wilting is a common response when your cucumber plant is suffering from environmental, bacterial, or fungal stress. Cucumbers and muskmelon most commonly affected (pumpkins and squash less affected) more information on. Leaves wilt and then become dry and die.
Sometimes it’s just one leaf, but it will quickly spread to the whole plant until you find several leaves on cucumber turning brown.
3 replies 2759 views august 11, 2010, 15:55 by paintedlady : In many cases, there's no yellowing of leaves. It encourages the roots to reach down to find water. I ended up moving the cucumber plants straight into the greenhouse a few weeks ago, and since then they've gradually got worse and worse, with the leaves becoming very floppy and wilted, followed by the young fruit wilting, and now the entire stems are buckling and collapsing to the soil level.