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Zurich, Ontario Canada

We had a bad hail storm today (ice cube size) Just about destroyed the whole plant. All pollinated kins are screwed!!! My main did not get severed but many of my secondarys did. I cut off all the leaves that were hanging by a thread and left the rest with just holes through them. I cut off many of the secondarys and I am going to make some territorials into secondarys so I gain back some healthy leaves. Any thing else I should be doing???












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7/10/2013 9:21:37 PM

Joliet, IL

Foliar feed with light seaweed, humic or fulvic, and a fert like 3-18-18. This will aid recovery. A good fungicide spray in a few days for points of entry for basic rot spores and soil born diseases on open wounds for cracked vines hit on direct contact.

7/10/2013 10:41:39 PM

Zurich, Ontario Canada

What would you suggest for a fungiside?? This thing is going to be in a coma for a bit!!!!! It's bad!!!!!!

7/11/2013 12:46:55 AM

Joliet, IL

All purpose fungicide. Outlet stores either immunox or daconil which is of this garden disease control. Better yet rotate them. If wounds to vines brown up from early rot formation anywhere use the tip of a teasoon and lightlt srape infected brown tissue to firm healthy tissue and apply cap rd an or sulfur powder. Broken leaf stalks hold as nd collect a lot of water. Cut broken stalks down to where no water can pool in base. The roots are still there....the plants won't quit. Sorry to hear you got whacked, but if you pull a couple nice halloween bign's its more rewarding in my opinion then pulling the plants. Best of luck.

7/11/2013 8:29:04 AM

Joliet, IL

Which is orthos garden disease control that should have read.

7/11/2013 8:30:02 AM

Joliet, IL

Lightly scrape.....geez I am bad

7/11/2013 8:31:28 AM

Joliet, IL

Captan or sulfur

7/11/2013 8:32:16 AM

Zurich, Ontario Canada

Shazzy thanks for the info, but If I was to lightly scrape every wound I would have to hire a crew in!!! Looks like some one blasted her with a shot gun. On the brighter side had a female without any damage on fruit open this a.m. and had 6 male volunteers. If she survives I'm going to name her 9 lives!!!! These plants are amazing. We spend so much time to keep them going and figuring out what is wrong with them. Then they get hit with this, and they fight for there lives. I was blown away to see flowers open up 12 hours after the storm!!!!! I really was!!!!!!!!!

7/11/2013 10:49:55 AM

Central Minnesota

Treat the plant with Fungicide over the next few days. Do your best to keep whatever secondaries you have going. If the tips are still alive, they are fine. You would be suprised how much damage they can take. Just bury the damaged vines like you always do . If the soil dries out, the best thing for them is to be buried. I have dealt with the same thing the last three years. Don't be to quick to give up on those damaged secondaries. If they are damaged so bad the tip is gone, wait for a tertiary to grow and train it as your secondary. Foliar fungicide is your best friend.

7/11/2013 11:28:42 AM

Springfield, VT

Look at this diary for help http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=114350

7/11/2013 11:48:52 AM

Menomonie, WI ([email protected])

You would be surprised how they bounce back

7/11/2013 12:46:44 PM

Zurich, Ontario Canada

VtWilbur- I looked at this diary. OMG!!!!! Ifeel guilty for complaining about mine. I don't think that one could have been any worse!!!!!!

7/11/2013 8:13:49 PM

East Jordan, MI

Sorry I am late in posting, with 6 plants, I don't get to check boards as often as I used to. Maybe this will still help some. We do the following after hail and we have been hit a couple of times (not that bad) with good success.

The day after foliar a fungicide mixed with seaweed and drench a light dose of fertilizer (I used daconil 1.5 tsp per gallon and 2 oz of seaweed per gallon foliar -- and used a pump sprayer to spray 3 gallons of 3-18-18 2 oz per gallon on the ground throughout the plant if you put it on stream and shoot it across the plant under the leaves you can get it pretty far without tromping around in the plant)
While you are in there you can prop up leaves with bamboo sticks and a zip tie, that will keep them working for a little while until new growth gets established, watch the bottom of the stalks closely on broken ones and remove if they start turning from green to yellow/tan.
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2nd day foliar with calcium (I used nutri-cal 1 oz per gallon -- don't be heavy handed as it can burn the leaves)
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3rd day -- foliar with fish and seaweed ( I used 1 oz per gallon each)

Day 1-10 -- use both hands to drink a few beers....lol

Good luck.

7/14/2013 9:32:59 AM