Re: Roots vs Leaves (Stump Rot & Systemic Fungicide)

George,

Unless your into the all natural organic thing, Isn't just about all the
fungicides we apply to our plants poisonous, such as sulfur, copper, captan etc.?
Most of us use or AG's for competition, not food consumption. I would suspect that
when a product is not approved for pumpkins, they are "C.Y.A." in general due to
the pumpkins that are used for food consumption.

Bob T.

GBPUMPKIN@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 12/8/98 8:45:33 PM Eastern Standard Time, jshunt3@juno.com
> writes:
>
> << Subj:         Re: Roots vs Leaves (watering)
>  Date:  12/8/98 8:45:33 PM Eastern Standard Time
>  From:  jshunt3@juno.com (Jon S Hun)
>  Sender:        owner-pumpkins@mallorn.com
>  Reply-to:      pumpkins@mallorn.com
>  To:    pumpkins@mallorn.com
>
>  George,
>
>  I don't know very much about the Ca in the soil but from  what I have
>  read and from what other growers have shared with me is that Ca is
>  essential for large pumpkins.
>
>  Now about the stump rot issue.  How did the large roots look just under
>  the stump?  My theory is fungus possibly develops under ground and
>  spreads along the root system just like any other bacteria.  What I'm
>  wondering is if we use a fungicide that is systemic will this take care
>  of the fungus problem.  A grower I talked with this year mentioned that
>  he had gummy stem blight on a stump and treated it with a fungicide and
>  had good results.  Gummy stem blight is a surface fungus and can be
>  treated with topical fungicide.  We used to use benomyl on a 14 interval
>  to control mildew and never had problems with stump rot but then again
>  benomyl is a systemic fungicide. So maybe we need to look into using a
>  systemic fungicide on a regular basis to control fungus problems but I
>  don't know if it will control fungus in the root system as well.  It
>  should be getting to the roots as well.  Anybody have anything to offer
>  on this subject?
>
>  Jon Hunt
>     >>
> >From another George (Brooks)
>
> The rot on my plant was all above ground, I do not know if it was from insect
> or disease.  I was not watching this plant closely because it was the one I
> had lost my Pumpkin on in early August.  The rot appeared in late August.
>
> Systemic fungicide: I do not believe in their use on edible plants and as fas
> as I know they are not listed for use on Pumpkins.  They make the entire plant
> poisonous and that is not a risk I'm willing to take.
>
> George
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