Re: Pretty on the Outside
Did you also spray for pickle worms...
--- Rich Canter <chaselounge@msn.com> wrote:
> Texas had a pretty OK first run on the big ones, and
> there are three still
> trying to orange-up.
> My problem is that many babies self-aborted and the
> others rotted from the
> inside out at around 100 pounds and simply
> collapsed.
> I feel that I did everything correctly as to create
> God's own compost and
> soil. It was an unusually mild summer, typically in
> the 80's and 90's with
> little rain during the growing season. I often
> watered in the evening or after
> dark and when I could during the day. There was
> never any standing water and
> no sign of fungus or disease as I used Daconil
> regularly, even in the drench.
> Of the lost beauties, there was often no sign of a
> problem until I saw a tiny
> hole at the bud end and by then half of the inside
> was mush. Even the stems of
> the deceased were solid and healthy.
> Any ideas or comments?
> Based on the info is there anything I can do to
> prevent this?
> Thanks
> Rich in Texas
>
> My Bhaskaran was the biggest and beautifullest
> before the end,
> The last Zunino "Baby Beluga" is big and crusty,
> but holding it's own,
> and The Chambers DID NOT like Wimberley Texas but
> has two fairly large and
> crazy funky shaped "things" starting to turn orange.
>
>
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