Re:Crashing Tiger Scorched Dragon
Are you sure it was anthracnose? I was under the impression that this
disease appeared as spots on existing leaves, not as burning new
growth, and that its infection of pumpkins/squash is rare.
Bryan
vince <anaid_tecuod@yahoo.com> wrote on 7/9/2001 12:37:48 AM:
>
>The last week has been slow torture as I watched my
>prized tiger/dragon 846 Calai, crashing and burning in
>slow motion before my eyes - all of it from my
>stupidity.
>
>First it came down with a bad case of Anthracnose, a
>fungal disease that attacks new leaves. Each day for
>the last week I've watched the next set of new leaves
>on the vines wither, and burn. It's seriously affected
>over a hundred leaves already. I missed one cycle of
>spraying on this plant because it had showed no signs
>of problems and now I'm paying the price. I amputated
>three badly infected secondaries and cringed as the
>tiger howled and the dragon roared.
>
>Then I noticed that the large 24" leaves in the center
>of the plant were collapsing under their own weight.
>Every day for the last week several more have
>nose-dived. The cause - overfertilization and under
>pruning caused the leaves to grow so tall (3') and
>large they can't hold themselves up.
>
>I've never had a plant put out a secondary every 16'
>on each side of the main vine or have such large
>leaves. I'm pruning every other secondary now trying
>to keep at least 2 1/2 feet between the secondaries to
>give the leaves some breathing room.
>
>The plant has been badly scorched and hurt but the
>dragon lives and will shake this off. The first fruit
>pollinated on a secondary hit 20" circumference today
>in 8 days. The fruit 13' out on the main vine is a
>day younger and hit 17" circ. at seven days. They are
>both pushing 2 or three inches a day.
>
>My 983 Ciliberto is not far behind at 18" circ. in 8
>days and growing 3" a day the last two days.
>
>I've started a web cam of sorts on the Dragon Calai.
>I'm setting it up on the fruit 13' out on the main
>vine. It will update once a day so you can watch the
>dragon in action. I'm betting on 25" circ. or better
>on day ten. You can find the Dragon Cam at:
>
>http://home.pacbell.net/diana_do/cam/dragon.htm
>
>vince,
>best 789, 2000
>zone 9, the dragon zone
>
>
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