More weirdness.

I watered my containers this morning about 9am. About noon I looked
out and saw one of the egg plants was completely wilted. My first
reaction was that I had somehow overlooked watering it, so I watered
it then but it never recovered. By evening it was completely dead.
Even the couple of small egg plants it was bearing had turned mushy.

On Jul 28, 9:19*pm, wrote:
More weirdness.

I watered my containers this morning about 9am. About noon I looked
out and saw one of the egg plants was completely wilted. My first
reaction was that I had somehow overlooked watering it, so I watered
it then but it never recovered. By evening it was completely dead.
Even the couple of small egg plants it was bearing had turned mushy.

My thought is you may have drowned it if the drain holes have
clogged. I killed a Dwarf Alberta Spruce that way because the drain
holes had clogged and it was sitting in water. I could not see the
water because of mulch and the foilage from the spruce.

I lost one egg plant from wilt early on and it was in the ground.
Another wilted but came back. They were side by side with a third
that has done fine.

Plants do not pollinate and fruit as well when the weather gets hot.
Plants in containers might be 5-10 degrees warmer than those in the
ground on these hot days making the matter even worse.

On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 05:06:58 -0700 (PDT), WesD
wrote:

On Jul 28, 9:19*pm, wrote:
More weirdness.

I watered my containers this morning about 9am. About noon I looked
out and saw one of the egg plants was completely wilted. My first
reaction was that I had somehow overlooked watering it, so I watered
it then but it never recovered. By evening it was completely dead.
Even the couple of small egg plants it was bearing had turned mushy.

My thought is you may have drowned it if the drain holes have
clogged.


Not likely. I use 5-gal paint pails drilled with five 3/4" drain holes
and a layer of gravel in the bottom.

On 07/29/2011 11:13 AM, wrote:
... you may have drowned it ...

Not likely. I use 5-gal paint pails drilled with five
3/4" drain holes and a layer of gravel in the bottom.

In that case the Spotlight Of Suspicion falls on a plant disease. A
blight can kill quickly. {From one who knows.}

Daniel B. Martin

On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 14:05:38 -0400, "Daniel B. Martin"
wrote:

On 07/29/2011 11:13 AM, wrote:
... you may have drowned it ...

Not likely. I use 5-gal paint pails drilled with five
3/4" drain holes and a layer of gravel in the bottom.

In that case the Spotlight Of Suspicion falls on a plant disease. A
blight can kill quickly. {From one who knows.}

I don't know much of anything about pests and pestilences. The first
year I did a container garden (2008) I learned more than I ever wanted
to know about cabbage worms and thereafter simply removed their
favorite foods from the buffet. Other than that, I haven't had any
problems.

On Jul 29, 5:29*pm, wrote:
On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 14:05:38 -0400, "Daniel B. Martin"

wrote:
On 07/29/2011 11:13 AM, wrote:
... you may have drowned it ...

Not likely. I use 5-gal paint pails drilled with five
3/4" drain holes and a layer of gravel in the bottom.

In that case the Spotlight Of Suspicion falls on a plant disease. * A
blight can kill quickly. *{From one who knows.}

I don't know much of anything about pests and pestilences. The first
year I did a container garden (2008) I learned more than I ever wanted
to know about cabbage worms and thereafter simply removed their
favorite foods from the buffet. Other than that, I haven't had any
problems.

But this has been a really bad year with heat and drought. If
drainage is not a problem, then disease is most likely the culprit.
One day they are fine and the next day wilted and dead within a week.
This is the reason I always plant more than I need because I usually
lose 20%. One plant will die and the other on each side only 6 feet
away will be fine.

On Fri, 5 Aug 2011 13:23:46 -0700 (PDT), WesD
wrote:


I don't know much of anything about pests and pestilences. The first
year I did a container garden (2008) I learned more than I ever wanted
to know about cabbage worms and thereafter simply removed their
favorite foods from the buffet. Other than that, I haven't had any
problems.

But this has been a really bad year with heat and drought. If
drainage is not a problem, then disease is most likely the culprit.
One day they are fine and the next day wilted and dead within a week.
This is the reason I always plant more than I need because I usually
lose 20%. One plant will die and the other on each side only 6 feet
away will be fine.

Makes sense. I tossed another two plants today. One tomato that was
mostly brown, and a pepper that had good foliage but had yet to yield
a pepper.