Re: hostas

Hi Gene
    Most people miss it because it just looks like normal leaf aging and damage toward fall and maybe the plant withers away and people think something else killed it. Also I seldom buy new plants anymore except tc plants.
    The plants I found with it at my place I could actually tell whose gardens have nematodes just by following the plant's history. Someone gave me a medicine bottle with namacur in it and I put a little around each and never saw any sign of it since. That is why I got my own supply of nemacur, not that I need it but if I do I want to be able to stop it before it spreads if I find it. If I couldn't get nemacur in years to come I might regret it so I got it as insurance. 
    I have heard some say nematodes don't hurt but I got a paradise power that showed up really infected by fall and was almost killing it, this was the first year I had it. I treated it and after 2-3 years or so have never seen any sign of it since. Same with a  Dianne hosta I bought at a convention, you can see a photo in the library. I brought it home and that fall it was going downhill and once I treated it I have never seen any sign since. I think I have found a total of 4 or 5 plants in the last few years and it only takes a very little bit of namacur around a plant to kill the namatodes. It also helps I quit buying divisions and mostly have my own streaked plants and just do hybridizing.
Bye
Bob

Gene Bush wrote:
Hummmm.....
    Well, Bob I will have to watch this fall and see what develops. I now
some of my hosta gets a bit ragged and crisped if I do not keep them
watered, but I do not remember this particular pattern of disease showing up
on my hosta leaves in my garden. Perhaps they do and I do not remember or
recognize .. but sure does not look like anything I have seen in my garden.
And I do have a few hosta... purchased for all up and down the east coast.
    Will be verrrry interesting........
    Gene E. Bush
Munchkin Nursery & Gardens, llc
www.munchkinnursery.com
g*@munchkinnursery.com
Zone 6/5  Southern Indiana

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From: "Bob" b*@SBTEK.NET
  
Hi Nancy
Here are some photos of it. The nematodes show up about the end of
August or later. I have people tell me they don't have nematodes but I
have yet to visit a garden late in the year and if the person has hostas
collected from many sources they have nematodes.
http://hostalibrary.org/diseases/nematodes.html
Bye
Bob
    
  

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Bye
Bob             Bob Axmear  208 2nd St Ne  Waukon, Ia 52172
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