Hi, my brother gave me some cucumbers and they are struggling, anyone recognize what is going on with them, and how to treat it?

Not a disease but the plants seem to lack nutrients.

Thanks for the reply, he grew them from seed and all of them were yellowing when we planted them, and have declined since then. We have great soil here, there are 4 nurseries within a half mile so maybe they will come out of it.

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I'm really not sure what to say. If the plants started out in bad shape they may never to the corner back to good health. Just looking at them without any knowledge of what they've been through it could be over watering, under watering, some type of disease, etc.,.

Did you give them any fertilizer? Good soil needs fertilizer added at times. Where are you located? If you're not in the far north then you could probably still start cucumbers from seed in the ground.

Thanks for the reply, he grew them from seed and all of them were yellowing when we planted them, and have declined since then. We have great soil here, there are 4 nurseries within a half mile so maybe they will come out of it.

Hudler, I hope someone is able to help you but I suspect if the plants were yellowing before they were planted they were not in good shape to start with. It would help if we knew where you are located. Different parts of the country have different problems and solutions. If you go to the little blue person in the upper right hand corner of your screen that is your profile and you can add an area.
Some don't want to be too specific and that is Ok but a general vicinity is very helpful.

Looks like he kept the page open, hit the refresh button, and read my message but didn't respond to it. Maybe he will give us some useful information later. Oh well....

I didn't add any fertilizer, sometimes I use milorganite, but not this year. We add a lot of leaves and twigs and gum balls to the garden in the fall. I have 4 other cucumbers, but I would like to keep these going too. I'm keeping a close eye on the other plants. Hopefully it doesn't spread.

Thanks for the welcome.

Leaves and twigs and gum balls(?) are good for adding organics/carbon but they drain the nitrogen due to the micro-organisms needing the nitrogen to digest the carbon. Your plants may be starving to death. Add a balanced fertilizer or something like Tomato-Tone or another tomato/vegetable fertilizer. Just adding carbon won't make healthy plants.

Are the gum balls that you speak of from sweet gum trees? Some of those balls still have seeds in them which might become a problem in your garden. You haven't noticed any sweet gum seedlings sprouting in your garden?

Thanks, I'll add some veggie fertilizer. No, we don't really have a problem with the sweet gum balls seeding. It gets tilled every couple of weeks, and the sweet gum balls open up before they drop and release their seeds.