Re: Echinacea wilt
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- Subject: Re: Echinacea wilt
- From: t*
- Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 19:18:33 -0400
from: Lynn Lamb at silverhands@mindspring.com
>Hi to all,
> I have a question that maybe someone can answer for me. In the last
>few days, since our big rain of last week, just half of my largest
>echinacea plant wilted down...the leaves and some new stems, the oldest
>stems were still erect. The other half of the plant and all the other
>plants in this space are ok. What could have caused this? I pulled some
>of the thinner stems out of the ground and they had a white substance at
>the ends. I cut down to a few inches all the wilted parts.
Don't know if this is relevant, but tropical hibiscus that are wilting
are sometimes brought back by a chlorine bleach and water 10/90 or 5/95
solution. Whatever pathogen is blocking the "arteries" of the plant and
causing the wilt is killed by the bleach solution - or so the theory
goes.
Tom Miller
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