Monday, June 18, 2018

A few wilting plants .... terminated

Two plants in my bales seem to have bacterial wilt:  wilting from the top down, at first seemingly as if they just needed water on a hot day, but nope.  So after a few days of this, today I just pulled 'em, bagged 'em and threw them in the trash.   These were one HC and one FL, which I note were both prone to wilt last year.  In each bale there is another one of the same type still doing OK.  Interestingly the other FL had some wilting and yellowing bottom branches a week or so ago, which I trimmed off, and now that plant seems pretty good.  I hope the bacterial wilt does not spread.   I am kicking myself because one of the points of bales was to avoid these sorts of contamination - and then what did I do?  I "inoculated" the bales with some of my own compost (because I was trying to help cure the bales).  Which is probably a terrible idea in retrospect because there is at least some old tomato plant material in that compost and god knows what else from my yard.   Duh.

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