Re: Leaf problem
- Subject: Re: Leaf problem
- From: W* K*
- Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 08:23:33 -0400
Doesn't seem to be Mildew.........leaves just have a silvery
sheen.........everything else looks normal...........thought it might be a
potassium deficiency.......Wayne
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> From: Harold Eddleman Ph.D <indbio@disknet.com>
> To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
> Subject: Re: Leaf problem
> Date: Saturday, July 17, 1999 8:15 PM
>
> pumpkins@mallorn.com wrote:
> >
> > The silver sheen on your leaves has me a little concerned, otherwise I
would dismiss this as natural maturation. This could be a fungi of some
sort, most leaves as they age turn brittle and brown. Are the leaves
silvery on top and bottom? Any holes developing in the silvery area? Are
the leaf veins ribbing? I hope it is not a fungus and just natural
maturation or sun scald.
> >
> Mildew turns leaves light gray "which you may be calling silver as in
> silver maple".
> Zinnia and Phlox are flowers whose leaves are usually covered with the
> gray mildew in late summer.
> However, it it natural color of leaf no problem. Cinderella pumpkin
> and goosneck squashes and many others often have an attractive gray
> color and pattern in the leaves and this is no virus or fungus. In our
> cornfields we could tell the Squash from the Pumpkins by this color
> because our field pumpkins did not have the color.
> --
> Harold Eddleman Ph.D. Microbiologist. i*@disknet.com
> Location: Palmyra IN USA; 36 kilometers west of Louisville, Kentucky
> http://www.disknet.com/indiana_biolab
>
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