Why do my courgette plants go white, then brown and crispy. They're in pots and have been fed and watered.

Question

I have four courgette plants, in large pots and they were really great to start with, several lovely courgettes on each. Then the leaves started to go powdery white and the little fruits dropped off and the leaves have mostly gone crispy and fell off. I have kept them well watered and fed with tomato food.

Answer 1

The powdery white is your best clue! You have Powdery Mildew!


By the sound of things, it has gone pretty fay and the plants are trash.
But if you want to try to save them.
mix 1/4 cup of baking soda into 1 gallon of water, then put the mix in some kind of hand sprayer and go out every day and spray the leaves.
Or go to a garden center and buy an oil based fungicide, the oil will smother the spores of the mildew!
Strait Hydrogen peroxide of the store shelf and into a hand sprayer will work also.
I like the baking soda myself. good luck.

Answer 2

Possibley some sort of pest has infected the roots, either that or you have over fed/tomato food not good for them.

Try repotting in fresh soil if they're worth saving at this point and feed with Miricle-gro or an organic fertilizer (like horse poo!)

Answer 3

if you're watering it nicely, then it will be a nutrient deficiency, maximum likely nitrogen, yet likely copper or magnesium, you do not favor a more effective pot, yet once you re pot it, then placed some compost in there, and shake quite some the lose soil of the roots, and pot it contained in the hot soil. and in some days it will be again to wide-spread. the brown leaves received't turn eco-friendly again, in spite of the undeniable fact that the plant will finally shed them, and this is going to easily be eco-friendly ones left. the roots growing out of the pot is in basic terms them searching for nutrition, they don't favor extra water, or soil, yet roots will save growing till something stops them... rock.. no extra soil ect.. it really is organic decision for ya. =] desire this helped

Answer 4

give some feed

Answer 5

dont worry it happens to the worse of us