same cukes i got. And your very near the same lattitude i have too here in michigan. I'd ask you if your fertilizing at all? I use Espoma Brand fertilizer for my garden. I put this on all plants, and everything is doing wonderful (despite being attacked by squash bugs a week ago.

My next question, and someone can followup on this one, is that i think 3 gallon bucket might be too little for cucumber plants? My plants will crawl up about 2.5' tall and have a circular base of 3 or so feet. I know for sure the roots go at least this becuz i can see them on the topsoil. Maybe the plant is rootbound? Just a food for thaught thing.

Last of all. . cukes LOVE water. I was watering mine the same amount as all my other plants. . . just keeping the soil moist. I was having ill looking cucumbers, and they were taking a long while to produce. I read on here that cukes abnormally LOVE water, and i begin to water almost 2x as much as i was before! I have great turnouts on cukes, and am picking 4-7 of them on a 3 day basis!

Good luck and let us know a lil more information! I havent yet OVERwatered my cucumbers. . . they seem to love every drop i give them! (fert every 2 weeks too! with that espoma stuff)

I was fertlizing them and all my other vegatbles once a week with the Mircle Grow formulated for tomatoes(it said it was okay for use with all vegies). I believe the #'s are 18-18-21. I ran out of it back around the 4th of July and just have not bought any more fertilzer since.

But I have continued water all my plants daily in the evening after work. The tomatoes & green bell peppers in containers are doing great. I have some potatoes and pumpkin vines planted right in the ground and they are doing good too. Thats why this cucumber dilema has me baffled. And its consistent between all 3 vines.

I keep the same schedule with all of them. I think I should take your advice and give them more water-I'll start watering the cukes in the morning too and see what happens.

I found a local supplier of the Espom Brand fertilzer and give that a try too. Thanks for the tips! They are so close to growing cukes I hate to see them fizzle out after all this time. I'll keep you posted on what happens.

Andy

I have grown many varieties of cukes over the years. I find the plants don't have longer than a seventy day life span, even when you can keep cucumber beetles and squash bugs at bay with sevin.

As a suggestion for a variety to grow, my favorite is Bush Pickle. The plants seem to resist disease and keep green leaves longer than others. They are also incredibly prolific with the cuke production on compact vines.

My current crop of two Bush Pickles I planted on may 15th and I have beem picking 5-6 cuccumbers for the last two weeks every other day.