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Monday, September 22, 2025
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Little Ketchup
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Grittyville, WA
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Still not as dirty as Rick's. I must not be working as hard.
Before I say I didn't learn much...
I learned that most of the plants here had verticillium or fusarium (whatever turns the xylem brown) the grafted plant had very healthy roots and the graft union was strong but I think verticillium could have entered from adventitious roots just above the graft or the side branches that had adventitious roots.
This disease, whatever it is, doesn't kill the plants outright. But it causes the stems to swell a bit and causes wilting during stress, and reduces fruit size and production by about 50%. None of the plants looked to be totally immune but some were worse than others. I don't know of a quick solution that I can afford. Will try a cover crop of oats for now.
Final notes:
The longest root I pulled out was 4'. I'm sure some of the ones that broke were longer.
There were no hidden monsters in the patch. Wasn't expecting any because I had things under fairly strict control up until a month ago but you never know.
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