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Produce => Pests & Diseases => Topic started by: tim on August 28, 2007, 18:22:35

Title: I have a better one!
Post by: tim on August 28, 2007, 18:22:35
All (except one!) of my recently planted cus indoors have got it.

No - not RSM. No sign of any infestation. They just do this & die off.
Title: Re: I have a better one!
Post by: SMP1704 on August 28, 2007, 19:48:17
and do those spots turn into holes?

My cucs were doing that but since they have had a weekly seaweed feed they have been OK and I might even get a cucumber this side of Christmas ::)  I blame the dodgy compost.........
Title: Re: I have a better one!
Post by: silverbirch on August 28, 2007, 20:01:20
My usual stand-by of Ask Jeeves images let me down, but I did find this which may help
http://www.essentialgardenguide.com/garden-vegetables-problems/9/Cucumber/

It's amazing we ever grow anything.  It's a war zone out there!!
Title: Re: I have a better one!
Post by: tim on August 29, 2007, 08:17:27
No, SMP - they just yellow & go to paper.

Good link, SB.
Title: Re: I have a better one!
Post by: growmore on August 29, 2007, 09:28:49
Have a look at this link tim...

http://vegetablemdonline.ppath.cornell.edu/DiagnosticKeys/CucurLeaf/Septoria/Sept_Pump.htm
Title: Re: I have a better one!
Post by: tim on August 29, 2007, 10:09:49
Don't like that one bit!!

So what do I do about it?

Title: Re: I have a better one!
Post by: growmore on August 29, 2007, 20:45:27
Hi Tim, If it is septoria which it looks very like,, It is a fungal disease ..How about  giving a couple of  the plants a good drenching with Bordaux or dithane ?To see if it stops it spreading any  further up to the healthy leaves...
Title: Re: I have a better one!
Post by: tim on August 30, 2007, 12:59:27
OK!