Thread: Weird potato die-off
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Old 17-06-2007, 06:34 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Weird potato die-off

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(Nick Maclaren) writes:
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| For the first time, I have grown Red Duke of York. The first lifting
| was OK, though there were rather a lot of small abscesses that were
| a bit like a cross between scab and wet rot, but all the tops have
| started to die-off, too. I put the symptoms down to the weather,
| but now I am unconvinced. The Belle de Fontenay immediately adjacent
| appears unaffected, though I have not lifted any yet.

Dammit. Blight. The whole of the row of Red Duke of York must have
been infected in mid- to late-May, leaving the Belle de Fontenay
unaffected. But recently, the blight has sporulated, and the latter
is now suffering.

A possibility, of course, is that the seed of the former were already
infected, but not visibly.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

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