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Re[2]: SQFT-Help with starting seeds

Hi TheMiller, you wrote:

>I have a question for someone knowledgable about Curcurbits. I have
>very poor results with all my Squash, zukes, cukes, etc due to some sort
>of moldy spots that invade despite my most carefull attention. I have
>avoided watering the leaves, and used fresh soil each crop. I do not
>compost the damaged crop leaves. Yet every year I get the same spots.
>Pretty, white, completly circular spots on the underside of healthy
>leaves. Same on older stems and leaves (Top and Bottom) that eventually
>wither the whole leave then the stem. I have contacted the Ag center and
>they sent me flyers on a couple things that it's NOT. It's not Gummy
>stem blight, and it's not Alternaria Leafspot. I say it is not these
>things because the photos they sent on the flyers don't look like it.
>It's not White fly causing mildew from the excreta (at least my white
>fly traps caught none).

Could it be powdery mildew? My zukes got it pretty bad last year, but
only after producing most of the season, and I used a homemade spray
to get rid of it - I can't immediately recall what. My cukes got it too,
but they didn't shrivel up and die right away. It took several weeks.
Just a guess...hope you figure out what it was.
Shawn
Claremont, Ca USDA9b Sunset19
swestaway@smtplink.coh.org
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