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Santa Cruz, CA

Our vine near the stump split a long time ago when the vine was first growing and left a one inch cavity into the vine hollow. The split was parallel to the vine so I didn't think anything of it and the plant has been growing just fine. We don't over-haead water so I didn't bother putting some protecton over the hole. Two days ago I noticed the cavity was full of what looked like water only it was a little bit foamy. I drained it by sticking paper towel down the hole but by the next day it was full again. I drilled a small hole at the bottom of the vine at the deepest part and the "water" dripped out. Did I do this right? What do I have here? Is there anything else I can do? Thanks for the help. -Creek and son

7/23/2007 12:22:14 PM

Midwest

Hi Creek: Sounds like something I had last year and it wasn't pretty at all. I tried Captan. Wish I had started early. It's hard to get a paintbrush into the cavity.
Sounds bad. Best wishes.
Greg

7/23/2007 1:59:49 PM

Santa Cruz, CA

Thanks for the help. Our cavity is big enough to get a paint brush into so Captan might help but what is this we have? What else could we use besides Captan?

7/23/2007 2:13:23 PM

Georgia

Ortho garden and disease control might work well for you. I actually had a stump rotting on me ooze and all. I covered it with Ortho and it healed right up.

7/23/2007 2:52:01 PM

Santa Cruz, CA

Is it a powder I can probably buy at my garden store? I'll check into it. Thanks!

7/23/2007 2:59:46 PM

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Benomyl (wettable powder) has often been touted as less likely to flake off. I tried it once right next to Captan & would tend to agree. Not that it matters. Both splits went down anyway.
The following year I took Tom Beachy's advice & used flowable Daconil. I waslate getting to the treatment so the same result but it did stay in place better than either of the WP's.

7/23/2007 7:53:28 PM

Rhode Island

creek

drilling a hole to allow the fluid to run out was the right thing to do
check it closely every few days as the hole can also heal back up and close again

also --- if you do develope the foaming situation here is what i did last year

cut down the center of the main (starting at the base )until i was clear of any foam. in other words i split the main in two equal sections out until the foaming was no longer present

at that spot i terminated the mail and pulled the foaming main and base of the plant

she did drop from 33 to 23 pounds per day after doing this but still grew to be a huge fruit

hope this helps

pap

7/23/2007 11:26:18 PM

Santa Cruz, CA

Pap, I will check the drilled hole regularly and it was still open today. The fluid is stored in the cavity of the vine. We have two holes, one three inches by one inch, and another closer to the stump and an inch away from the first. The fluid bubbles only at the small hole opening. Are you saying I should cut to join the two splits to open up the hole to dry it out better? or do you mean I should split the main in half all the way though both the top part of the vine and the bottom so if I was looking down on it I could see through to the soil beneath? Is all this to get more air flowing and dry the area out?

7/24/2007 1:23:28 AM