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What effective fungicide programs do you use?

2/9/2004 7:17:18 PM

Sheridan . NY

vigor cal phos--and the whole giant pumpkin foliar feed & soil bio program from C&J Products and Agro-k--helps make health soil and plants --4 over 1000 and 2 from the ROSE

2/12/2004 1:22:35 PM

Ctpumpkin@optonline.net

Late June here:

Mancozeb Flowable (contact) @ 2mls per gallon
Eagle or Nova (systemic) @ one quarter teaspoon per gallon
Hawkeye Organosilicone @ 10-15 mls per gallon

For the record I don't really try to measure out a quarter teaspoon of WP fungicides. I have some very small measuring spoons made for this purpose.

I repeat this at 2 weeks. Then I lower the Eagle to one eighth teaspoon (it's a powder) & apply weekly at these very low rates all summer. No diseases of any kind last year. Even fruit rots were down but this may have been the result of growing on pulp mill fabric. For the prior 8 years we only grew the typical field pumpkins here. But the losses to fruit rots were often as high as 30%.

I prefer the low-dose weekly treatments for 2 reasons.
1.) I can be trusted to remember
2.) No burning of the tips at these low rates.

My son's school (Chapel Elementery) was all organic (Federal reporting law was too cumbersome to bother with chemicals) so we relied strictly on Neptune's Harvest seaweed on Monday & the Fish/Seaweed blend on Thursdays or Fridays without fail (except the week of July 19th) all summer. Usually this was mixed with Nutri-Cal chelated Calcium. We had hoped to see some degree of Powdey Mildew supression at least. You can see by our diary that the plants were infected by August 1st & finished by Aug 15th. We'll be applying conventional fungicides & complying with the federal reporting law this year.

Perhaps Craig's program would exempt us from the tedious act of reporting. But quite frankly, I don't have the time to take the chance. I can't go up there every 3 days & not get results. The kids were happy with 194lbs. But I'd like to raise the bar for them a bit this year. And they're on summer vacation while I'm spraying anyway.

Steve

2/12/2004 1:55:32 PM