I don’t know whether I should cut her down.
I don’t know whether she is infected with fusarium.
Once I found a branch that was grey in the inside but nothing happened in the last two weeks: no further wilt.
Update:
Finally I’ve decided to cut her and I think I was right: the main stem had some serious fungal infection as you can see on the picture.
She was a nice plant. I would love to try to grow it again.
R.I.P.
The Lesson I Iearned / things I want to implement in the next round:
-use trichoderma in the beginning so fungal pathogens have less chance to mess your garden up
-use neem (adding it to your compost or spraying diluted on the plants REGULARLY)
-desinfect your scissors before you touch your plants with them
-try to catch butterflies (moths) at spring when they show up and start to use BT even before once every 2 weeks
-use of horsetail extract as fungicide.
Anything you would suggest as Pest Prevention?
sweet, but in myopinion your plants are to close
i normally give my outdoor ladies 1-120 cm distance to each other
or you do some advanced training or scrog we will see- follw with interest
@Biotabs, they might be too close but i am not sure a training would fix this , because lst or scrog is taking more space horizontally. I was planning to do it, but then I decided to let them go upwards. Maybe when they pass their fence I would gently guide them out of the flowerbed. I would gladly take any advice. Should I transplant one of them?
Garlic spray is supposed to be good for most pests. Lactic Acid bacteria (LAB) can be used as a foliar spray to out-compete other micro-organisms and prevent bud rot. Easier than making LAB is just spraying plant with dilute milk solution, but I haven’t actually tried that yet. I also agree about using BT which works great on caterpillars. Main thing is get buds drying off after rains. Better luck next time.
well, in my opinion using BT is not for outdoor use, because it is poisoning birds and bats, that eat the poisoned insect too
and all the other insects gt a portion of the poison
and there is an aquatic toxicity too, when the bacterias are washed into the envoirement
greetings
@Biotabs,
As I know BT has a lot of specimens and one is only dangerous on a very few species. That’s why they use it as a biological defense against mosquitoes in a huge scale, as well.
The one I use (bacillus thuringiensis kurstaki) it is against caterpillars, no other thing is harmed by it. On the package it also says: it has no effect on the aquatic life either.
By the way : today it turned out that Fusarium is my enemy this year. So my plants are doomed :(.