The Basinga plant is badly wilting. A few days ago I pruned some yellowing branches mainly from the HC plants but also BA. However the BA has more rapidly wilting and yellowing today and the wiliting leaves - prior to yellowing in otherwise normal looking branches and now higher up the plant - is a sign (I think) of a fungus in the plant vascular system. The plant has also slowed growth and has topped out at 4 ft while the others around it are all taller. The cause is not early blight because it does not have bullseye spots, and the wilting is preceding some slight spotting and yellowing - so this might be verticillium wilt. If so it's bad, because there's not much to do. Note the photo in the last post which shows the BA fruit (still looking good today) which are close to the ground, and the leaves around them are healthy green. Today, the leaves are yellow and wilty.
However the BC next to it looks unaffected and is huge - 6.5 ft tall, setting fruit and growing.
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