RE: stem rot / Captan

It'll clean your sox too!

"Lick a peach, and it tastes like a peach."
"Lick a strawberry, and it tastes like a strawberry."
"The snozberries taste like snozberries!"

Sorry Folks! The Oompa Loompa thing got me Goofy!

Steve Haberman


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pumpkins@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf Of
Steve Minor
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 8:40 PM
To: pumpkins@hort.net
Subject: Re: stem rot / Captan

Steve Haberman is da man, yes he is.  Borax is always in my arsenal now for
splits, fungus, infection, foaming stump--you name it.

Thanks again, Mr. Haberman.

Steve Minor.

--- On Tue, 8/24/10, Russ Stokes <rstokes@wi.rr.com> wrote:

From: Russ Stokes <rstokes@wi.rr.com>
Subject: Re: stem rot / Captan
To: pumpkins@hort.net
Date: Tuesday, August 24, 2010, 8:18 PM

Last year and again this year, one of the Steve's (my apologies)  in the
group
recommended Borax.  It works! I tried it again this year on a pumpkin whose
stem started to rot.  I carefully cut away the soft mushy tissue and just
shook a handful of the 20 mule team variety on the wound, it dried up the
infection and after several rainfalls it appears that it is still on the
stem.  In my opinion, I think it's a safe and easy way to cure this type of
problem.  I am thinking that Borax has a high PH and that is why it stops
the
disease.  Most diseases like thrive better in acidic type conditions. Just a
guess though.

Russ
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