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It doesnt appear to be PM from my below post, I just put up some more photos of whats going on in the patch leaves appear to be turning yellow at the edges then going spotty yellow then brown and dieing off

this is now happening really fast, since fruit were set about 14 days ago and i havent changed my feeding program
or anything. not much rain soil isnt saturated fruit are growing at a steady pace.

any suggestions

thanks

Dave

8/19/2004 1:20:57 PM

Dillsburg, PA

Dave, Look at my diary under JeffL. It looks very similair to my problems. My pumpkins stopped growing and plant and turned very light green to yellow. Now its dead. I didn't see it at the time but noticed a week or two later PM everywhere. I did spray for it since the beginning of the season but it didn't help.

8/19/2004 2:45:04 PM

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I hope that it's not the same thing I have, but it looks similar ( see my diary under bohica), I cut the leaves off and am spraying immunox.

8/19/2004 4:13:29 PM

Canada

YUP mine are the same as both of yours, I guess my only option now is to spray weekly with fungicide in hopes to save the rest of the plant, I sprayed the plants on a biweekly basis early spring leading into summer but stoped
for about a month i hope its not too late.

ive got 2 fruit one on each plant and both are growing well
and i hope they continue to grow on into sept.

8/20/2004 1:36:38 AM

Dillsburg, PA

Even with spraying the PM every three days it spreads and kills the leaves. I didn't think that PM could wipe out a patch so quickly. I planted a big mac/ag plant as a backup in late june just in case of something going wrong. Well both of my ag plants are wiped out since mid july and now my big mac plant is looking bad. We have to find a way to control this or a repeat for next year will happen. My question is can PM by itself cause a plant to abort/stop all females and basically kill the plant in less than a month?

8/20/2004 5:26:26 PM

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I'm now spraying with a molasses and baking soda mixure every week, along with the immunox.... hope it works as my Pkn has stopped growing, no growth at all last night....

8/20/2004 5:30:54 PM