Re: Lime Jello
Kathy...That snot is pumpkin juice oozed by the pumpkin. More than likely at
this time of year if you press on the surrounding area you will express more
pumpkin buggers and find an area of rot...it usually runs in the grain of the
stem. What I've done is scrape with my finger first...then fingernail second
till all the snotty stuff is gone....then wash and lightly scrub with a
bleach solution followed by a fan or captan or sulfer. (get rid of the mushy
stuff...clean with bleach to kill nasties still there,....dry with fan and
sulfer or captan or other drying fungiside stuff to minimize the moist
environment the nasties like). I like to use "garden dusts" because they have multiple
fungisides....and insecticides.....fruitflies like wet oozie spots...this
might help chase them away.
Snotty areas are common now...they need to be dry................G
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