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any advice from anyone before i pull best looking plant ive ever had?

yellow vine decline/disease
bacteria sucks
any thing that can be done as far as a systemic bactericide that maybe can used as a preventative?

all it takes is 1 infected squash bug to make it happen so looking at the future... its so hot the squash bugs do not even care they are dieing just so nice and cool around vines and watered area cause no rain in 3 weeks too
they are dieing but it still takes a day or so and they can still bite on plant first and infect the plant even with plentyyy of merit and contacts in the plant

6/1/2016 3:24:48 PM

Arden, NC

Brother Dave can probably tell you better but I think yellow vine disease is a virus. Bacterial wilt is vectored in via either cucumber or squash bug bites. Have never tried this but actinovate is an antibiotic (streptomycin family). Have no clue if it would work. For what its worth, bacterial wilt can be field tested via cutting an infected vine(one where the leaf nodes have collapsed) and seeing if there is a stringy, goopy clear thread between the slowly separated halfs. I had bacterial wilt on a 1789 plant and it took a section of main vine down in a matter of hours. Cutting the diseased part out 5 feet past the last affected leaf kept it going for a couple of weeks but i lost the whole plant enventually.

6/1/2016 5:46:57 PM

Cincinnati,OH

This plant tested positive for YVD.
http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=187168
I attempted saving this plant but it would never set fruit and eventually died.

6/1/2016 6:27:28 PM

Cincinnati,OH

Here is a link to some info I posted.
http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=188407
A contact insecticide would be helpful in addition to the systemic, they won't feed if the poison is present on the surface.

6/1/2016 6:33:36 PM

Colorado

Its a bacteria. Some plants fight it better than others. Cut out any secondaries that get those bronze looking leaves.If the pumpkin set on that plant keeps growing go with it. If the plant aborts the fruit pull it-or use it as a pollinator and then pull it.

6/1/2016 7:06:39 PM

Springfield, Missouri

It looks like Serratia marcescens causes the disease. It appears that this bacteria can survive outside of a host and on tools. One research paper used needles to infect seedlings. Many antibiotics are ineffective. Hope this helps; all info was found by google searching Serratia marcescens research papers.

6/1/2016 8:48:00 PM

Home of happy lil plants

fixed the problem i do believe

6/1/2016 11:46:18 PM

Bethlehem CT

In my experience the plant will never be able to grow a pumpkin once the disease is noticed. The plant can live for a long time and won't die on it's own, It just won't do anything. It is hard to say why one plant will get the disease and another right next to it will not. I think some plants may carry some sort of resistance.

6/2/2016 7:21:00 AM

Upa Creek, MO

Spence, very sorry to see. I know the awful feeling of pulling plants in June. I did it 2x last year for different reasons.

6/2/2016 9:48:33 AM

Little-TON - Colorado

I found that a rotation of Warrior II and Bifethrin does a great job of repelling SBugZ... We also plant a magnet plant of crooked neck squash to draw the devils over then we hand pick them off, and then later Zap it with the cocktail later....been working OK growing next to a community garden.... fingerZ crossed.

6/2/2016 10:35:59 AM

Bethlehem CT

Great advice Wizzy!

6/2/2016 7:37:44 PM

Corryton, TN

Don't know anyone who has had YVD more than myself. I've tried several antibiotics. Some are used on plants for other bacterial problems. Others were injected into the plant with hopes that a miracle might happen. So far nothing has worked. I may try a preventive spray of Mycoshield or terramycin (oxytetracycline). More squash bugs this year than ever before! Easily killing 20+ a day by hand in addition to what the pesticides get. First year that I have watered overhead exclusively. It brings many out of hiding to the top of leaves then I pinch their heads off. Starting to like the smell of dead squash bugs.

6/2/2016 9:46:02 PM

Partlow,Va

I agree with the Wiz.... Bifen IT is the SBug shield

6/2/2016 10:05:26 PM

Little-TON - Colorado

Have found that itZ wise to also spray under the canopy around the pumpkin. We cover the KIN with a towel, and spray the towel as we have found them on the stem of the fruit because it was void of spray. Systemic alone wont repell them, this is why I dont grow anymore at home with my wifes organic garden....she wont let me spray.

6/3/2016 9:28:12 AM