Re: bacterial wilt
Try placing shade cloth over the new growth. It sounds to me
more like old-fashioned sun burn. If an AG is heavily
fertilized, it will grow so fast that the new growth become
very sensitive to the sun. Shade cloth gives new growth a
chance to harden up before the sun fries it.
Bacterial wilt first causes mature leaves to wilt, then whole
sections of vines to die. See:
http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/cucurbit/leaf/6.2.html
If the plant truely has bacterial wilt, you should probably
pull the plant and burn it, but it doesn't so don't do
that.....
vince
--- david rathbone <david.rathbone@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> I think I have a case of bacterial wilt. My new growth has
> brown,
> translucent patches on the leaves. I saw one cucumber beetle
> on the
> weekend and one tonight.
>
> I sprayed with liquid Sevin on the weekend and organic
> rotenone
> tonight. Anything else I should be using that is available
> here in Canada?
>
> thanks
> Dave
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