[compost_tea] Re: VERTICILLIUM WILT in tomatoes

From: dloring3 <dloring3_at_cox.net>
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 19:43:54 -0000

Chris - What is the name of the book you refer too . . . sounds good?

Dave Sotillo 50

--- In compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com, "chriscreid" <reidchris_at_e...>
wrote:
> --- In compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com, clay <clayc_at_w...> wrote:
> > My tomatoes are starting to show signs of verticillium wilt.
> >
> > I have not used compost tea on them. I am wondering if the wilt,
> being a
> > fungal disease, would be affected by compost tea applications.
> >
> > Has anyone had experience with this at all?
>
> Clayton,
>
> This reminds me, a nonfarmer, of a sentence I just read in a book
> recently. Prompts me to ask: Is there any possibility you have
> nematodes going on as well? Here is the sentence:
>
> Nematodes can influence the production and accumulation of plant
> growth factors. Increased hormone concentrations in nematode-
> infected plants may contribute to greater infection by wilt-causing
> organisms, because these growth factors make host tissues
> easier to penetrate by maintaining cells in a rapidly dividing,
> juvenile state.
>
> Note the hedge word *may -- Something to look at.
>
> Question for Elaine: Would Pseudomonas inoculum in tea help in
wilt
> part of this case? You recommended it once to Tim Livingstone on
> this list for his work on powdery mildew of greenhouse-grown
> strawberries. If so, source of Inoculum?
>
> Also, some people are reporting that they are looking at the
> calcium/magnesium ratios in the soil and verifying calcium in the
> plant through tissue testing -- calcium in plant is said to be
> important in strengthening cell walls. Here I am passing on
> something I can't document to you from research or relate personal
> experience, so I put it in the "interesting idea" category --
> something to look into.
>
> Chris Reid


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