In the normal state of cucumber turnip has a dark green color. If the cucumber leaves turn yellow, it indicates incorrect care. Also, the color change may be due to certain diseases.
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The causes and solutions to the problem
The reasons why the cucumber leaves began to turn yellow, it may be several. The most common are:
- Unsustainable irrigation mode. If you water the plant rarely or often, but a small amount of water, then soon the leaves will begin to turn yellow. This suggests a lack of moisture. Excessive watering is also dangerous, because the plant may rot. When about 10 cm correct watering soil must be moistened to a depth.
- The lack of fertilizer. Cucumbers may be in need of feeding. During the growing season it is recommended to enter the complex nitrogen fertilizers.
- Hypothermia. foliage yellowing can cause low temperature.
- Burn sunlight. If you carry out watering in the daytime, and the water at the same time gets on the leaves, then in these areas over time can be observed yellow or brown spots - it is a sunburn.
- Disease that affects the foliage. The most common of these is the Fusarium.
- Damage to the root system. If the roots are damaged during transplanting in the open ground or pest attack, the leaves may begin to turn yellow.
Depending on the cause of the yellowing leaves, it should seek a solution to this problem. If the cucumbers are planted in the greenhouse, to restore the natural color of the leaves must be:
- Observe the irrigation mode. During flowering and fruiting plants should be watered at least, but not more often than once every 2-3 days.
- Soaking optimum temperature. Thus, during the flowering considered comfortable temperature +20... + 24 ° C. During normal appearance of the fruit will be the temperature of 23... + 26 ° C.
- Regularly ventilate the greenhouse.
- Conduct feeding. In most cases, a leaf yellowing disappears after the introduction of a comprehensive soil fertilization.
Also not recommended to thicken planting.
If the leaves turn yellow cucumbers planted in open ground, it should be:
- Conceal their greenhouse at the time of lowering the temperature.
- Observe irrigation regime (the same as for the greenhouse). But in this case it is not necessary to water during the day, because the sun can pripalit areas on which water droplets.
- Regularly feed the plant, because the tops turn yellow can of fertilizer shortage. For planting in open ground organic and complex fertilizers are well suited.
If all conditions are met growing, but the foliage still continues to change the usual color to yellow, you can try to use folk remedies. The most popular and affordable is a milk-soap solution. For its preparation in 10 liters of water needed to dissolve 1 liter of milk (fat any). Then the mixture was added 20 g of soap and 30 drops of iodine. All is well mixed, and the solution treated with cucumber 1 time in 10 days to complete the restoration of natural color.
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