Re: Origin of Vegetable Crops
- To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Origin of Vegetable Crops
- From: W* V* I*
- Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1999 18:48:58 -0500 (EST)
Dear Harold;
When I first transferred my pumpkins outside last year( my first
year) the leaves developed
yellow spots which in time spread further out into the leaf and eventually
turned white and like
dried newspaper. I was told this was probably caused by the potting soil I
had started them in. I watered
the problem out( or I think I did) as this was the best advice I could get
at the time from the professionals
I had acess to. I used most of my rain water supply 8000 gal. to achieve
this. The problem seemed to
leave and I had super growth after this. I didn't have this problem on the
backup plant that produced
my largest pumpkin 413 lbs. The only problem I had with this backup was
forcing it to grow south to north.
Remember this was my first year & I didn't even know that you were supposed
to cut off the sucker vines.
I would like to hear your comments on my problem last year.
Bill Van
P.E.I.
Canada
At 07:08 PM 4/2/99 -0800, you wrote:
>Dear Nic Welty and others
> These URLs from Univ Calif Davis are quite good and mention colchicine
>and cucurbita. No data. More info on origin and botany of veg crops than
>I have ever found in one place lots of pages. a college course.
>http://veghome.ucdavis.edu/vc221/syllb221.html
>syllabus of vegetable corps. origin of most vegetables.
>http://veghome.ucdavis.edu/vc221/cucurbits/squash.htm
>Cucurbita has mention of colcholcine at 0.6 cursor other pages above
>may have colchicine info.
>
>Today I uploaded the first draft of my Alantic Giant page at the URL
>below. I would like to hear from anyone who has seen yellow, pale, or
>white markings in the leaves of pumpkin as such may be virus symptoms.
>
>--
>Harold Eddleman Ph.D. Microbiologist. i*@disknet.com
>Location: Palmyra IN USA; 36 kilometers west of Louisville, Kentucky
>http://www.disknet.com/indiana_biolab/pk800.htm <= pumpkin virus page
>
>
>
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