Re: CULT: scorch, rot, and post freeze decline

Celia Storey wrote:
> Linda Mann, according to the archives you were rather concerned about
> scorch a few years ago, have you learned anything more about it since?

As I was reading the post I was thinking about 'post freeze trauma rot'
and Walter Moores tells me the post freeze rot he is seeing in
Mississippi looks like scorch but isn't.

In my garden, I don't know what organism it is and don't know if it's a
pathogen, but it is definitely rot of plants injured by the freeze. 
This may be the main type of rot I have (I don't usually smell check all
my rotting plants to see if it's the infamous soft rot), and if it isn't
actually a pathogen, that would explain why mine are usually
'self-curing'.  

I have not been able to keep STEPPING OUT alive.  I suspect it is
regularly hit by my usually more extreme late freezes and is not freeze
proof enough to survive.  Most of my 'new' last year plants that had
more than minor injury are succumbing - most of these were 'gambling'
plants (pot luck and club orders )

Linda Mann east TennesseeUSA
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