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Jeff wrote:
Billy wrote:
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Jeff wrote:
Billy wrote:
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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
Thanks. This seems likely as the soil here is from leaf litter and it
would not surprise me if it had fungi. The deceased plants roots looked
fine, as that article had mentioned. For that matter, so did the rest of
the plant, until it fell over.
Don't take this as gospel,yet, and keep looking.
I'll keep watching. Any chance cat urine could do it in? I'm herding
cats faster than I can spay them.
Jeff
If it wasn't there before, it probably came in with the seed. Salts from
cat urine would just have made it wilt and cats aren't likely to carry
plant diseases. I have the same problem with basil in one spot in my
garden. Look for fusarium resistant plants to put in that area.
OK, I'll do exactly that. I see I have a Downey Mildew resistant
strain (Market More 76).
I have some "compost" that probably has fungus in it also. Can I do
anything with that? I have some glazing for a solar collector I wont
need till winter, heat???
Jeff
Downey mildew is what all of our gardens get at the end of the years as
the weather cools and the plants get wet. (With this in mind, try not to
wet the leaves on tomatoes when watering.) I don't know what you mean by
glazing but nurseries and hardware stores will have clear plastic
sheeting for sale. Be sure to bury the edges of the plastic with dirt.
http://www.thisland.illinois.edu/57ways/57ways_15.html
http://ceamador.ucdavis.edu/files/942.pdf
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