Need some thoughts/advise on garden pests.

Something very ravenous is attacking the vinca's, gophenia, lavender and maragolds in one of my beds. Whatever it is appears to feed/destroy from the ground up, inside to outside.

Can you help a brother out, I'm about to go nuclear on the %&*(#$.

Need some thoughts/advise on garden pests.

Something very ravenous is attacking the vinca's, gophenia, lavender and maragolds in one of my beds. Whatever it is appears to feed/destroy from the ground up, inside to outside.

Can you help a brother out, I'm about to go nuclear on the %&*(#$.


...ground up?

Let's see...dry as all hell of late eliminates most molds and fungi and root rots. Maybe high salts? Ground up, inside out is odd.

Pics?

...ground up?

Let's see...dry as all hell of late eliminates most molds and fungi and root rots. Maybe high salts? Ground up, inside out is odd.

Pics?

It is odd!
Starts at the bottom and sucks the life out of each stem, leaves, etc. No pics, but I'll see what I can do.

I've tried "Seven Dust" and insecticidle soap, helps, but marginally.

Need some thoughts/advise on garden pests.

Something very ravenous is attacking the vinca's, gophenia, lavender and maragolds in one of my beds. Whatever it is appears to feed/destroy from the ground up, inside to outside.

Can you help a brother out, I'm about to go nuclear on the %&*(#$.

Thoughts on garden pests; they suck.
Advice on garden pests; get rid of them.

:lmao:

It is odd!
Starts at the bottom and sucks the life out of each stem, leaves, etc. No pics, but I'll see what I can do.

I've tried "Seven Dust" and insecticidle soap, helps, but marginally.
Same exact thing happend to my pumpkin vines! :bawl: Seemed to be overnight for each one. :frown:

I've tried "Seven Dust" and insecticidle soap, helps, but marginally.


...you didn't!??!!? :jameo:

Thoughts on garden pests; they suck.
Advice on garden pests; get rid of them.

:lmao:

I fell so much better! :huggy:

:howdy:

Same exact thing happend to my pumpkin vines! :bawl: Seemed to be overnight for each one. :frown:

I can tell what that is; frigginn squash/vine borers!!! They attack most viney type veggies/fruits. They bore into the vine and lay their eggs.

Thoughts on garden pests; they suck.
Advice on garden pests; get rid of them.

:lmao:


...and you sound qualified!

Just a few more questions;

What to do about dry plants?

Hungry plants?


:lmao:

...you didn't!??!!? :jameo:

Not at the same time.
I'm desperate!

...and you sound qualified!

Just a few more questions;

What to do about dry plants?

Hungry plants?


:lmao:

:diva:

Dry plants; water them
Hungry plants; feed them

Do I have the job?

I fell so much better! :huggy:

:howdy:

:yay:

I had a problem w/snails in my garden this year-lil suckers looking for H2O-suckin the life out of my plants.

:diva:

Dry plants; water them
Hungry plants; feed them

Do I have the job?


...place you under consideration.





Speak any Spanish? :lmao:

:diva:

Dry plants; water them
Hungry plants; feed them

Do I have the job?
You would make an awesome "Vanna" to Larry's "Pat Sajak"...:banana:

I fell so much better! :huggy:

:howdy:



...did you fell before? Down, perhaps? :lmao:

...place you under consideration.





Speak any Spanish? :lmao:


Si Senoir

Do I have the job?I gotta job for ya...:biggrin:

Not at the same time.
I'm desperate!

...I try to first scare the #### out of everyone I try to help.


Man, sounds like a pythium maybe to whack the plant from the ground up? Do the roots look healthy?

You would make an awesome "Vanna" to Larry's "Pat Sajak"...:banana:

:cartwheel

I gotta job for ya...:biggrin:

:killingme wait no, :smack:

:killingme wait no, :smack:Or nevermind...:shrug:

Or nevermind...:shrug:


j/k baby, j/k....I likey that job

Man, sounds like a pythium maybe to whack the plant from the ground up? Do the roots look healthy?

Pyritihum that sounds like the ticket. Need something potent, but ground friendly. If there is such a thing.

Unsure how determine a "healthy vs. un-healthy root :shrug:

Pyritihum that sounds like the ticket. Need something potent, but ground friendly. If there is such a thing.

Unsure how determine a "healthy vs. un-healthy root :shrug:

Healthy root; looks good
Un-healthy root; looks bad

Healthy root; looks good
Un-healthy root; looks bad

Jeebus woman, I had no idea of your plant intellect, stunning :yay:

Pyritihum that sounds like the ticket. Need something potent, but ground friendly. If there is such a thing.

Unsure how determine a "healthy vs. un-healthy root :shrug:

...don't look good?

Pull up a dead 'un. Pythium makes the outer layer on the roots 'slough' off kinda like a sleeve coming off the under part. Picture a hollow noodle sliding off a piece of spaghetti. Take a root with thumb and forefinger and the outer will slip right off, easily, for most pythiums.

Jeebus woman, I had no idea of your plant intellect, stunning :yay:


...laugh but, industry wide, everything she's said is plant 101.

"Well, the look kinda wilty, so I treated them for pythium and they burned"

"How was the soil?"

"Dry. Why?"


:jameo:

...don't look good?

Pull up a dead 'un. Pythium makes the outer layer on the roots 'slough' off kinda like a sleeve coming off the under part. Picture a hollow noodle sliding off a piece of spaghetti. Take a root with thumb and forefinger and the outer will slip right off, easily, for most pythiums.

:doh:

I thougt in your earlier post you were recommending using the pest control pyrithium and you spelled it wrong. You were really talking about a diasese... :whack:

Based on what I found on the web, my plants are exhibiting simular symptoms. I'll have to check the roots.

Thanks Homey :cheers:

:
Based on what I found on the web, my plants are exhibiting simular symptoms. I'll have to check the roots.

Thanks Homey :cheers:


...to what, pythium symptoms?

...to what, pythium symptoms?

:yay:

:yay:


...maybe let them get too dry a few times?

Pythium attacks roots weakened/damaged by being too dry, too wet, over fed (too much salt) and so on. Evening watering is bad, too.

Keep me posted.

...maybe let them get too dry a few times?

Pythium attacks roots weakened/damaged by being too dry, too wet, over fed (too much salt) and so on. Evening watering is bad, too.

Keep me posted.

Checked-out one of the wasted plants. Some roots were stripped and I could pull the outer "skin" off the other roots. Your diagnosis appears to be spot on :yay:

BTW, could this disease be carried in store bought mulch, what's the best thing to get rid of it?

:cheers:

Checked-out one of the wasted plants. Some roots were stripped and I could pull the outer "skin" off the other roots. Your diagnosis appears to be spot on :yay:

BTW, could this disease be carried in store bought mulch, what's the best thing to get rid of it?

:cheers:


...in the mulch per se, though that is possible. Think of pythium like the common cold; it's pretty much everywhere all the time and you normally only catch cold if you're already weakened; tired, poor diet, etc. So, pythium attacks weakened plants.

More likely, if you added mulch and that seems to be coincidental with the onset of the problem, my suspicion would be improperly composted mulch or it had/has something else going on that damages roots and makes them susceptible to pythium.

My cousin in Cincinnati has a freaky problem going on right now and we bot think it's the mulch. Pythium is wiping out her wave petunias, one of the easiest growing and most resilient plants out there.

I think there may be some sort of problem related to...Katrina. Huge amounts of material. Easy opportunity for someone to provide cheap, bad mulch.

So, tell me about your mulch.

...in the mulch per se, though that is possible. Think of pythium like the common cold; it's pretty much everywhere all the time and you normally only catch cold if you're already weakened; tired, poor diet, etc. So, pythium attacks weakened plants.

More likely, if you added mulch and that seems to be coincidental with the onset of the problem, my suspicion would be improperly composted mulch or it had/has something else going on that damages roots and makes them susceptible to pythium.

My cousin in Cincinnati has a freaky problem going on right now and we bot think it's the mulch. Pythium is wiping out her wave petunias, one of the easiest growing and most resilient plants out there.

I think there may be some sort of problem related to...Katrina. Huge amounts of material. Easy opportunity for someone to provide cheap, bad mulch.

So, tell me about your mulch.

It's the cheapo stuff from Lowes. The plants on one side of the bed are suffering more than identical plants on the other side.

It's the cheapo stuff from Lowes. The plants on one side of the bed are suffering more than identical plants on the other side.


...is it the same mulch put in the same time? We're doing a diagnosis here. Timing, any other application you may have done, fertilizer, common threads, etc.

...is it the same mulch put in the same time? We're doing a diagnosis here. Timing, any other application you may have done, fertilizer, common threads, etc.

Mulch applied at the same time. Plants were in the ground about two weeks before mulch added. Minimul fertilizer to start plants, none since. Have watered regularly, no significant rain around here in at least a month.

Soil is rich and drains well, plants get full sun about six hours out of the day. Bed faces south @ 38:00 degrees N, 76:00 degrees W :lmao:

Mulch applied at the same time. Plants were in the ground about two weeks before mulch added. Minimul fertilizer to start plants, none since. Have watered regularly, no significant rain around here in at least a month.

Soil is rich and drains well, plants get full sun about six hours out of the day. Bed faces south @ 38:00 degrees N, 76:00 degrees W :lmao:
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