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Garden State Pumpkins

Just want to know if anyone else is getting this. Plant looks healthy but all the leaves the very tip is yellow. I'm starting to think it's genetic.

6/20/2003 5:39:54 PM

syracuse, ny

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6/20/2003 6:50:52 PM

Garden State Pumpkins

Thanks Pal, But this doesn't look like anything more then the leaf tips are yellow...plant is healthy.will take some photos when I can get back in there...probably monday after the monsoon!

6/20/2003 7:01:04 PM

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Chuck, If those plants are all in the open now, you might just be seeing a low nitrogen/low light intensity situation. Rain leaches Nitrogen & we've had over 7" so far this June.

Are the covers off now?

If so, the warm sunny weather next week should help clear things up. Tighten them up with a shot of soluble fert (at labeled rates) if it's been more than a week.

I think they're ready to just explode if the forecast is correct!

Steve

6/20/2003 7:27:39 PM

North Ga

Please Steve!! Explode is not a favorite word of AG growers!!!! LOL!!

6/20/2003 7:46:32 PM

churchville, ny

Alexsdad-I had a serious problem a few weeks ago similar to yours. The tips were yellow and it was traveling toward the center of the leaf. I doubt it was excessive ground moisture since I have my beds raised approximately a foot off the ground. Steve (the master) wrote that it was overfertilization not being able to be used by the plant during the cold wet weather and to stop any more fertilizing. I followed his directions and leaves are now a dark green and growing well. Was it the improvement of warmer temperatures and SUNSHINE or too much fertilizer?-I'm not sure but my Nesbitt 1020 and Daletas 1230 are ready to "explode". Hope this helps Tom

6/20/2003 11:31:11 PM

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YIKES! What was i thinking? Poor choice of words. Sorry.

6/20/2003 11:38:33 PM

Garden State Pumpkins

posted a shot of the yellow tips in my diary...not much to speak of but if it is a fert problem not much I can do. also overall shot of the plant.

6/21/2003 1:12:57 PM