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Pataskala,OH

Post on here if you got it. We need to figure out how to prevent re occurrence and track which parts of the country it is in. Most of the people who get it in there patch seem to get it every year from then on. I and everyone who has or suspects yvd would hate to have the same disaster more than once.

7/28/2010 8:02:13 PM

Nic, Great of you to do a post on this. I have had it the past 2 years in diffrent patch's. Both year all of my plants died and most of them were off great seeds like the 1161 Rodonis X3, 1288 Wallace and 1385 Jutras. Matt DeBacco helped me find out what it is and I will do my best to prevent it next year. I live about 5 mins from Gettysburg so it looks as though the disease is growing very quickly. If you need anymore info I would be glad to help.

Martin

7/28/2010 8:10:07 PM

Pataskala,OH

I just made an small list of growers who experienced this problem from BP seems to be spreading like crazy. There is probably more people than this who have had it.

brotherdave Corryton, TN 09/10

Nic Nitrate Pataskala, OH 10 ?

Martin G Fairfield, PA 09/10

pumpkinJesus      Quakertown, PA 09


littlebit (Rob) Frankfort OH 08 ?

D=Reeb OH 07 ?

7/28/2010 8:18:21 PM

Pataskala,OH

I think I have to use row covers, a trap crop, and garlic guard next year. I have a lot of wind out here and I don't know how to keep row covers from blowing away. Any ideas ?

7/28/2010 8:25:07 PM

I will be doing most of those things next year too Nic. Row covers while the plats are under 11-15 feet long and marigolds with garlic barrier and stronger bug control.

7/28/2010 9:27:24 PM

Ottawa, Canada

Do you have pictures? 3 patches around mine have started developing these really bright yellow dots (almost fluorescent) all around the leaf edges. Not sure if it's on the vines yet.

7/28/2010 10:23:40 PM

Minnesota([email protected])

I believe I had it on one plant in 2007.
Last year one secondary looked like it might have it. I cut the secondary off a ways past the yellowing, and the rest of the plant was unaffected.
Isn't this disease carried by squash bugs? I believe I've seen a few squash bugs, but they haven't been very numerous in my patch.

7/28/2010 10:40:29 PM

Indiana

I have been getting it since 2003

7/28/2010 10:48:39 PM

Corryton, TN

That doesn't sound like it frogman.
Early signs: http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=136568
http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=134946

7/29/2010 4:55:20 AM

Pataskala,OH

Doug14 you may have had something else. I cut my plant way back past the yellowing and it still came back. I am still waiting for the results from the lab. So I am not for sure that's what it was in my patch either.

7/29/2010 7:27:54 AM

The bottom of New Jersey

If you want to be organic, then floating row covers are the way to go, all season long. Squash bugs, like all insects, are very opportunistic though so if the cover blows off or gets some small holes in it a few will find their way in. And my gut tells me that a few is all it takes to bring the disease in with them. You have to keep after them and catch any that come in as quickly as you can. It is a tough thing to deal with but we have to be even more persistant and determined than the bugs are to defeat them!

7/29/2010 7:36:12 AM

Finksburg, Md

This was my first year and I lost all three of my plants this year due to it. I am in Carroll county, Md. Joe Z.

7/29/2010 8:30:24 AM

Navarre,OH

Keep that YVD to your part of Ohio!!! :)

7/29/2010 9:18:09 AM

Northern Cambria, Pa.

I believe the mysterious disease may be some strain of Fusarium. I talked to the soil expert from Guelph U. who spoke at the Niagara convention several years ago about it, and that is what she thought it was. It seems to be very common in the warmer parts of PA. We have never had it here but I have seen it in other patches first hand. Perhaps some more tissue testing should be done. Have any of you had wilting associated with it?

7/29/2010 11:13:21 AM

Corryton, TN

No wilting directly associadted to the disease here. If the plant flags the diseased area also flags but it also rebounds with the rest but slower. Mine was confirmed at plant lab at UT. Once you've seen it a time or two it's quite easy to recognize in AG's.

7/29/2010 12:31:17 PM

Pataskala,OH

I don't think what I got was fusarium. Roots were healthy. I looked up and down the vine and there was not rot or mush. I hope the test comes back as postive for yvd because I threw out the whole plant and have nothing else to test. And with those root diseases you have to start a new patch.

7/29/2010 1:44:17 PM

Northern Cambria, Pa.

Maybe there is a YVD epidemic starting. It will be interesting to see the results of the tests that have been sent in so far. Disease can be very hard to diagnose.

7/29/2010 2:49:34 PM