Re: seeds from fruit with mosaic virus

Steve:

I do not suggest or recommend that you use or share seeds from fruit 
harvested from your plants that had mosaic virus. Mosaic viruses are scourges 
to cucurbits and to plant and grow seeds from infected plants is flirting 
with disaster. Your plants had mosaic in the early stages of growth, which 
means the fruit and seeds are worthless.

The responsible thing to do is to pull infected plants and fruit and burn it. 
To allow plants to grow with Mosaic viruses is the worst possible scenario 
and assures that you will have mosaic again next year. Worse yet, to allow 
your plants to be mulched or sent to a municipal yard waste operation spreads 
this horrible disease to others.

Barb

In a message dated 11/26/1999 5:08:49 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
SteveS012@aol.com writes:

<<  Well 99% of the 
 leaves died on most of them, but I think because of powdery mildew in 
 combination with the Mosaic virus they have had all summer. Even with 
 insecticides, fungicides, floating row cover, botanical parasites for 
 Cucumber beetles, seaweed, etc., they still got the virus and mildew lately. 
 >>

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