RE: What should I do?

Kath, last year was my rookie season, rookie mistakes, underwatering, PM,
etc, but finally got a fruit to set early-mid August which got frosted in
the first couple days of October; fruit was 49 days old & cut from the vine
& stored til Halloween. It had over 300 seeds that were mature, and doing a
germination test, 4 of 5 germinated, so there's still hope for you for
fruits or viable seed. As for diseases, check these helpful sites below:

http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/pp/cucurbit/disease/lensID.htm
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/pp/cucurbit/disease/Image.html
http://www.nysaes.cornell.edu/recommends/18frameset.html

Especially check the other links on the last site (Cornell.)

Hope this helps.

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pumpkins@hort.net [o*@hort.net]On Behalf
Of Kathie Morgan
Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 7:12 PM
To: pumpkins@hort.net
Subject: What should I do?


Glenn wrote: How old is it today? Is the fruit still "alive" yet not
growing? Even if the vine is dying, it may be keeping the fruit alive
and maturing..... how old is it now and is there any life at all to the
vine? new buds etc.....?

It's 42 days today. I think the fruit is still alive, as are all the
vines on the north side of it, green and healthy looking. The fruit
sounds sound when I slap it lovingly. Yes, I think it has new flowers
too.
I took a sample of its leaves today to the master gardeners; missed them
but left the evidence with a note. Will let you know. I had thought it
to be the virus carried by the diabolical diabrotica, aka cucumber
beetle, but Mr Ray Barenchi visited my patch Saturday and says it looks
like a disease. A retired exterminator, he says he has never seen that
much damage done by the virus.
I'll post again when I find out something.
Kathie

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