Cucumber crop question
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The soil may be nutrient deficient for what the cucumber plant needs to produce. Cucumbers are heavy feeders. If plant has nice leaf growth and little fruit the soil more than likely has plenty of nitrogen and little calcium, potassium and phosphorus. You can try adding organic bone meal to the soil, also can scratch in some used coffee grounds, add some compost and worm castings to the soil as well to make it richer for the plant. Add to soil away from the stem where the roots are at the drip line of the plant. Hope this will help. Good luck.
A deformed cucumber can be contributed to improper pollination. Heat can also cause moisture stress in the cucumber. Cucumbers need plenty of water while setting and developing fruit. A lack of water during hot, dry conditions can cause the fruit to form in a peculiar shape.
This type of growth is usually caused by uneven watering patterns. Cukes are usually easy to grow and are minimal in maintenance, they just like to be fed and watered regularly.
If you purchased your plants, the label in the pkg. May have gotten changed and you didn't get the plants you thought you were getting.
We live in AZ and during our hot summer.. we watered the cukes every day... and kept them under a shade cloth canopy... FYI... we trained our onto a trellis... to help keep them out of the dirt.