"Billy" wrote in message
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Jeff wrote:

Cucumber plants are several inches high but on of them the stem shrunk
and withered from ground level up to about an inch. This has killed the
plant. What is that and will I need to worry about the other plants?
They all look healthy to my untrained eyes.

Jeff

The key that I'm looking at says,

"Plant wilts slowly but permanently, with no
recovery at night; stem may rot at the base" .......fusarium wilt

IIRC you are screwed (sorry).
http://plant-disease.ippc.orst.edu/d...?RecordID=1492

Don't take this as gospel,yet, and keep looking.
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- Billy
"For the first time in the history of the world, every human being
is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the
moment of conception until death." - Rachel Carson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En2TzBE0lp4

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1050688.html

I agree, it sounds like fusarium, however it may be cutworms. I'm having a
really difficult time controlling them this year. I'm spraying each emerging
plant with Bt, but with the daily rains it's almost impossible to keep up.

Look at Park's Seed web site they actually give disease resistance for
different varieties.
Steve