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Illinois

Can anyone with some experience with this identify it. Look on my diary ithe picture should be on tomorow morning, I have leafs on one secondary vine that are changing to a weird greenish yellowish color. Like a pukey green color. It is a select handful of leafs in the middle one vine. Not starting at end or at stump, starting in between both. About five leafs so far. Have some squash bugs around, have been spraying and killing them. I don’t have a lot of them around d that I can tell and I do find a handful of leafs with eggs everyday but keep on top, maybe they could be causing this ? Or something else ? Maybe someone else has seen this before .

7/11/2018 10:29:34 PM

Colorado

Looks like classic YVD,That bronzing of leaves shows well in your photos. The other thing youll see is the leaves at the vine tips will stack real tight instead or having normal spacing. If you've got a fruit set it will stop dead in the water.

7/12/2018 12:36:34 AM

Illinois

Any recommendations? If it is yvd, do u mean any fruit on whole plant will stop or the one on that vine ? Can I cut it off ?

7/12/2018 7:14:03 AM

Illinois

It doesn’t seem to be progressing much if at all, it might have progressed a little but not much, it had also been scorching hot here? Could it also be an over application of something ?

7/12/2018 7:49:52 AM

Illinois

It doesn’t seem to be progressing much if at all, it might have progressed a little but not much, it had also been scorching hot here? Could it also be an over application of something ?

7/12/2018 8:04:13 AM

stoughton WI

It appears to that it could be yvd,it may be progressing slowly as it looks to be at the end of your plant can you post some pics of your grow tips. Alot of times if the grow tips lose that cobra look,it's a possible sign of yvd

7/12/2018 9:07:52 AM

Illinois

I will take a picture later today and post of growing top and some more angles , if it is yvd , what can I do , is there still hope for rest of plant if I cut off that section of vine ?

7/12/2018 9:32:18 AM

Illinois

I will take a picture later today and post of growing top and some more angles , if it is yvd , what can I do , is there still hope for rest of plant if I cut off that section of vine ?

7/12/2018 9:54:32 AM

stoughton WI

you can try and cut off that part of the plant, but yvd is a bacteria, it has most likely spread farther than there are symptoms. and can be spread to other plants with just one bite from a squash bug.

7/12/2018 10:54:56 AM

Illinois

I removed that part of vine and posted pictures on diary of growing tip of that vine and a cutout of vine I cut off, it didn’t seem to be progressing much if at all, the fruit still seems to be growing noticed leafs changing color four days ago. Any thoughts? Still YVD or can it be something else carried by bugs

7/12/2018 1:08:54 PM

Colorado

Saw the vine tip photo and its confirms YVD.You can try cutting away visually affect vines(that worked once for me ). Usually it spreads through the whole plant and it show over.I'd start aggressive spray program to kill off squash bugs. Talstar,cyanara and warrior 2 are effective

7/12/2018 4:51:18 PM

Eastern Pennsylvania

A YVD pant will try to fool you into spending time and effort thinking you might salvage it. Don’t be tricked.

7/12/2018 6:39:49 PM

Illinois

We will see what happens I will not give up on it yet but for future reference, if I start spraying earlier and maybe with a better insecticide, can I still get it. Don’t they t h ically have to bite and feed on plant to get the chemical in them, if that’s the case they will infect the plant again anyways, this is two years in a row for this to happen! I will have to do something better next year. I’m still learning.......

7/12/2018 7:24:39 PM

stoughton WI

cojoe is right, do not waste your time, pull the plant a.s.a.p. you need to use a systemic and a contact

7/12/2018 7:47:25 PM

Eastern Pennsylvania

Use a strong contact insecticide like bifenthrin so the bug does not have to bite in order to die. That said, I have already lost one plant to YVD this year, it is tough to battle and even tougher to accept that it has happened again.

7/12/2018 10:35:30 PM