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Sioux Falls, SD [email protected]

Please check my photo in gallery and help me figure out whats wrong
Thanks!

6/30/2006 12:00:32 AM

Long Island,New York

2-4-d

6/30/2006 4:25:30 PM

Menomonie, WI ([email protected])

Sort of looks like what one of my plants looked like last year, once things warmed up and the treated grass clippings volitalized.

6/30/2006 4:56:22 PM

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Photo link?

6/30/2006 7:11:58 PM

Sioux Falls, SD [email protected]

here's photo if you did not find. . .
http://bigpumpkins.com/displayphoto.asp?pid=4390&gid=1
thanks!

6/30/2006 11:26:01 PM

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Cucumber Mosaic Virus

http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/dp_hfrr/extensn/problems/cucmsaic.htm

Not a pleasant thing to have. I know because we've seen it here every year for 3 years. Not as bad but it slows the plant so badly it'll make you nuts. Find a new location to grow in that is several miles away.

6/30/2006 11:50:33 PM

Sioux Falls, SD [email protected]

No!

7/1/2006 12:49:13 PM

Warwood

DG,
I believe CMV or cucumber mosaic virus because of the distinct yellow fingerlike structures on the leaf. If there are a lot of blisters on the leaf I'd go more that it's 2-4-D. The plant's done if it's CMV at this point in growth. Get and burn all weeds and debris you can for 200' as for weeds and that type of debris, also keep aphids to a crawling minimum, rotate away from that plot for two-three years. I would heavily compost the site next fall and sow a winter rye crop over the winter. No other cure for that one. Wait for a week before you pull the plant to make sure it's not remotely 2-4-D contamination. It starts bouncing back in a week to two weeks d/t half-life of that herbicide in the soil. Keep me posted. Don

7/2/2006 2:28:20 PM

Lymington UK

It may be worth looking to see if there are any thrips around because they are one of the biggest problems of transmitting the virus over here in the UK .
All you need to do is find some growing tips and shake them over some white paper . Hope this helps Ian

7/2/2006 3:41:15 PM

Sioux Falls, SD [email protected]

Thanks for help everyone. . .
Hope you understand if I'm not all "bubbly" about finally figuring out I have mosaic.
Now if one of you knows a cure???
That would be exciting. . . .

7/3/2006 10:52:26 PM