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Montoursville, PA

Please take a look at my last three pix in my diary. Overall white spots show up followed by a pimple, a pencil erasser spot to the third one about the size of a quarter.

....Preceeding this which showed up in the last twenty four hours we had four days of gray rainy high humidity days.

....Pumpkin has been misted daily with Vigor-Cal which is a commercial tea with Calcium. Regular feeding has been 1/7 or 1/6th of what has been going on for two weeks with drawing even half of that for the rainy gray days. Nothing hot or pushing. Liquid fertilizer 2-12-12, fish and kelp augmented with a tea booster and molasses. All of these are regular players here. The tea/calcium mist was applied after the plant turn around aproximately 5PM Eastern Time.
By visual accouont the mist was sucked in within half an hour following treatment.

What do you think this is and what should I do is the question. Tricky critters these girls are!

9/4/2003 6:29:34 PM

Key West, FL

Sounds like die back? Die back is normal if thats what it is.

9/4/2003 7:12:20 PM

Ontario, Canada.

Doc pics are not up yet. Could they be salts leaching out of the surface. I've had a few of them. They look like brown dots that ooze a brownish paste like liquid.

9/4/2003 7:20:33 PM

Montoursville, PA

I have no ooze at this hour. Hope the pix soon go up.

9/4/2003 9:42:57 PM

Montoursville, PA

the pix are up. take a peek.

9/4/2003 9:46:58 PM

derry n.h u.s.a.

I found a black spot back in 95 on one of my pumpkins it went all the way through,it was about 1" wide size of a quarter.My Advise is to cut it off now,the large one and dust it with Captions,treat it like a bite,dont know about the small ones maybe scrape it a bit and dust also,its some type of mold,at least it was on mine.Good luck.OOps also mine wasnt discovered till it was to late,if its soft get rid of it now before it goes all the way through.John

9/4/2003 11:50:27 PM

Ga.

Fusarium Fruit Rot

Infected fruit develop small, scattered, brown lesions which later become sunken, larger and covered by a white or pink growth of fungus. Infections are usually confined to the rind but can expand into the flesh and seed cavity. This disease can only be controlled by crop rotation.

9/5/2003 3:40:38 AM

Ga.

Sclerotinia Rot

Affected stems and fruit become water soaked and show a cottony white growth of the fungus on quickly growing lesions. Eventually flat, rounded black patches of sclerotia form. This disease can be effectively controlled through crop rotation...
Sorry theres no pics doc..

9/5/2003 3:41:24 AM

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It does look like Fusarium in the fruit rot stage.

http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/cucurbit/fruit/15.2.html

This is a link to the Fusarium solani strain. Also claiming no known control. But I don't buy it. Many fungicides are know to supress or control solani. Using mulches to keep infected soil off the fruit is known to help too.

Steve

9/5/2003 8:35:37 AM

Montoursville, PA

Common opinion led us to fungus. Cornell University has it pin pointed as Anthracnose. Chuck, BP.com, associate was on target first! He sent the link which follows:

http://vegetablemdonline.ppath.cornell.edu/factsheets/Cucurbit_FrtRots.htm

Thanks.........I am pretty certain we are now on target. That Cornell site is very good. Look it over.

9/5/2003 11:58:57 AM

Montoursville, PA

Know now we were on target per ID of the brown spot trouble.
What proceed that by a week was a hidden split caused by excessive weight on the cradle she was growing on.

Observing nature's laws here...injury, lack of proper health followed by fungus attack.

We cut her open on the 5th. We posted pix on the 5th and the 6th. that show the injury and the progression to death did us part.

All the king's men and all the king's horses could not put Humpty Dumpty together again. So it was with this fruit.

Thanks to all of you for tossing in your opinions. It all sorta came together and helped me understand the situation.

9/6/2003 11:22:53 AM