Can I save this zucchini plant?
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Valmuse
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I have not had one fruit yet. First time trying it in a pot.
11 answers
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Vegies are heavy feeders. What soil do you have it in? Needs more than basic potting mix to get this to flourish. Compost, aged cow manure and so on. Suggest you research soil requirements for this plant and see if you can provide what it may be lacking. Looks like the pot is a little small for the plant and the plant needs trellis or some sort of support. Has it flowered at all. It needs to make flowers of course before you get any fruit from it. Check that the pot is draining at the bottom properly too. Leaving it sitting in a pool of water will most likely rot the roots. Rotten roots equals dead plant. Needs good root system to feed.
Carole
on Jul 12, 2015
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I've had great success with these in pots over the last half dozen years. I know exactly where you live and our weather is nearly identical to yours, which tells me you need to keep them watered. Zucchini sucks up water...a lot of water. Check twice a day, morning and afternoon. They also like lots of sun, which is a bit of a catch 22 because the sun will cause the moisture to evaporate. Just pay attention to the water. Plus, once a week you can feed them with a dose of Miracle-Gro for veggies. It may take a while for them to produce fruit, but I can see there are blooms. That means there will be zucchini. Just be patient.
Swan Road Designs
on Jul 12, 2015
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Looks like it has a vine borer. It is a serious pest of summer squash and zucchini. It could also be a bacterial wilt .
Linda
on Jul 12, 2015
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Whatever it is, I have the same problem with my pumpkin vine. I thought it was fungus or mold.
Katherine
on Jul 12, 2015
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Check for squash vine borers. You will see holes at the base of the stalks with a pile of chewed up plant insides. You can slice the stalk up the side or use a metal coat hanger stretched out to poke and kill the larvae thru the hole at the base. It will give the plant a chance at surviving. You have to kill the eggs that winter over this fall so they won't come back next year.
Sharon
on Jul 13, 2015
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It looks like the vine borers. Sharon, how do you kill the eggs that overwinter in the soil?
Julie
on Jul 13, 2015
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This is how my zucchini plant looks like, too, in a pot. I see little black ants (I think) and smaller black insects that are on the leaves and inside the flower. Every time a fruit blossoms, within a few days, it wilts and shrivels up. No fruit yet!I have tried every homemade pest treatment, but none have worked. I don't want to use pesticides, because I have hummingbird feeders and fountains nearby. Help!
Lisa Lopez
on Jul 13, 2015
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Looks like the pot is too small. I find fish fertilizer helps bring a plant back. Organic neptune harvest or the stuff they sell at groworganic.com
Elizabeth Schemanski
on Jul 13, 2015
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Plant your zucchini in the ground. This is a hearty grower and once you give it full sunshine and fertilizer you will receive zucchini. Give it about 30 days. I see blossoms on the plant. If you have bugs on the plant sprinkle some pulverized lime over it. Cut off the underneath dead leaves. Good luck!
Cornelia Schott
on Jul 14, 2015
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I didn't have space in the garden but do now. Is it too late to transplant to the garden?
Valmuse
on Jul 14, 2015
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I found I got no zucinni at all the first year so I read up about it during the winter and learned how to hand pollinate all the flowers. They will start to grow but wither up if they were not fertilized. You just need to look it up so you can tell which blossoms are which and do that every time you have both a male and a female flower. I've done pretty well this year til it got too hot here in Vegas.
Cindy
on Aug 14, 2016
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