Need help with white fuzzy bugs/spots on butia
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Comments (7)Amersaw, great photos! The tips look pretty good. The white looks like it could be scale, but nothing to be alarmed about. This time of year mine get all manner of tentative insect bites that ooze white latex, or webs on them, before the bugs realize the sap is yucky or a predator wipes them out. Indoors is another matter since the predators are not as available as when they're outdoors, but you should be okay with the plants going outside now. The blackened bits are leaves from outside the growing center of the claw that are being aborted--this is totally normal as the plants come out of dormancy. The energy is going to the center of the tip and any young leaves outside that area just lose sap and fall off. No biggie. If you take more photos in a couple of weeks as the weather warms you can compare with these and you'll be amazed at how much the center leaves will have grown in that time....See Moreneed help white spots in most of my vegetables
Comments (3)Hi Charlene, White spots in the flesh of different vegetables can mean various things so you have to analyze your soil, moisture levels, fertility levels (or lack of such), and pest problems to get to the bottom of it. First of all, if you saw the white spots inside any of your harvested vegetables in June to mid-July before the squash bugs and stink bugs arrived, then those instances probably were not insect-related. (And, even at that, I saw stink bugs arriving in my zone 7 garden in southern OK in MAY which is highly unusual, but May was very hot and dry here in Love County, so it happened. Still, I didn't see damage on the produce itself until late July.) Secondly, if the white flesh is entirely and completely internal with no signs of it on the outer skin of the veggies, then it probably is related either to excess moisture in the soil or excess fertility (caused by too much fertilizer because none of us has soil that is rich enough to cause 'excess fertility' by itself). When it is excess fertility, the element that is the problem is usually excess nitrogen. In watermelons and other melons, this white flesh even has a name..."white heart" and it has ruined many melons and is easily avoidable...just don't overfeed with nitrogen. Third, if you DO see little round circles on the skin of the fruit that are a slightly different color (usually a slightly lighter color) from the rest of the skin, then it might be damage from stink bugs or leaf-footed bugs or blister beetles(most common source of such damage). I've never had squash bugs do visable damage to my squash, but only to the plants themselves. If you have stink bug/leaf-footed bug/blister beetle damage, you often will notice an off-flavor to the ligher-fleshed area of the veggie but not an off-flavor to the rest of the veggie. However, if the damage to the veggie or fruit is widespread, it could affect the taste of the entire fruit or veggie and none of it would be salvageable. If the cause is excess fertility, you may notice that your plants were thick and green and lush and gorgeous, and produced heavily, but the inner portions of the veggies were white or whitish and had a pronounced lack of flavor. About the only remedy I know for that is to stop fertilizing the plants and instead build the soil with compost, humus, manure and other organic materials and let the soil feed the plants. You'll taste and see the difference. Sometimes, you may have an undiagnosed nutritional deficiency in your soil that leads to such white spots. Generally, it is not caused by too little nitrogen, potassium or phosphorus, but instead by a lack of one of the necessary micro-nutrients, also known as trace elements. These are: iron, calcium, magnesium, sulfur, manganese, chlorine, boron, zinc, copper and molybdenum. And, those micronutrients are only the most common ones....there are over 70 others that have not been studied as well yet for us to know what it does to our soil/plants if those micronutrients are low. A soil test can tell you if you have a micronutrient deficiency, but you'll have to request that the test check the levels of micronutrients because a lot of the common soil tests these days mainly test for N-P-K. Fourth, if the white spots were caused by excess moisture, there's not much you can do about that if all the moisture was falling from the skies and not from your waterhose. If you live in one of the parts of Oklahoma that has had very high rainfall this year, the excess moisture basically clogs up the roots and prevents them from absorbing nutrition from the soil. You can't do much but hope for drier weather next year. If you have been irrigating a lot, cut back next year and see if the white-flesh issues go away. Too much water and too much fertilizer both are often the major causes of many veggie problems....it is a phenomenon often referred to as "loving your plants to death". For what it is worth, the best way to make sure that your soil is not deficient in any of the micronutrients is to add all the chopped/shredded leaves you can to your veggie garden beds in the fall. The chopped/shredded leaves have all the needed micronutrients in the right proportions and give your soil exactly what it needs to grow healthy and productive veggies. Hope this info helps, and we can discuss it further if you have questions about specific veggies, for example. Dawn...See MoreTiny white fuzzy spots ????
Comments (5)If it is BC (and that is what it sounds like it is to me) there is not a lot you can do but remove the affected plants ASAP. BC is so contageous that you would want to cut the afected plants off at the ground along with any healthy plant(s) immediately surrrounging it, them. Check out this link for more information. BC is a tuff problem to deal with. http://vegetablemdonline.ppath.cornell.edu/factsheets/Tomato_Bacterial.htm. It would be much better if we had a pic to look at. A picture really is worth a thousand words. Two things you might try: first, is whole ground corn meal. NOT the corn meal you buy in the grocery store but the kind you buy at a feed store. The stuff you buy at a feed store has a coarser texture and is simply whole corn that has been ground up, not enriched. There is no need to enrich any of the ground grains unless they have taken something away from it in the first place. Sprinkle it liberally all around the base of the plant(s) extending out three feet in all directions. Second,foliar spray ALL your plants with fish emulsion and seaweed along with 1T of molasses per gallon of water. Be sure to spray the top and bottom of the leaves and the stems. Mix the fish emulsion and seaweed at two times the recommended amount. I would mix all three together and spray the plants with this twice a week and then evaluate the situtaion. Spray the plant until the every leaf is dripping and the liquid runs down the stems. The idea here is to try and crowd out the bad bacteria that is all over the plants. If we can get good bacteria to reproduce in large enough numbers then perhaps there will not be any place for the BC to spread to - perhaps overpower it with good bacteria. I am not saying it is going to work, but every living organism, good or bad, needs the right environment to thrive. If we can change the environment enough in our favor maybe we can contol it. Like I said, I am just making a suggestion to a nasty problem. I think it is worth a try though before you yank out the plants, especially if you do not have a lot of plants and you end up having no tomatoes at all. Does anyone know if BC (along with the other harmful types of bacteria) is an aerobic or anaerobic type? Tom...See MoreWhite Fuzzy Mold on Grass - Please Help Identify!
Comments (27)Sorry I disappeared. We had an unexpected car buying event, and the new car needs some attention. The good news in your jar test is all that stuff floating on top is organic matter. That's a good percentage. And I'm not at all surprised about the mix. You're so close to the river that it sort of had to be sandy. You might actually be able to find soybean meal in Riverside. About 10 years ago I was looking in the Temecula area for feed store organics. The only thing I could find was soybean meal. It was $40 for a 40-pound bag, though. That's ridiculous. Even commercially bagged organic fertilizer was less than that. The key thing you're looking for in organic fertilizer is protein. The protein usually comes in the form of alfalfa, soy, corn, flax, and cottonseed. Sometimes they will add animal byproducts such as feather meal. All the grains, nuts, and beans will decompose and become available in a week or two. Feather meal takes forever the first time you use it, but if you use it at least annually it will decompose faster and faster each time. But feathers really boost the protein, so manufacturers will sometimes put it into an otherwise weak mix. You also will see poultry litter listed as an ingredient. As far as I'm concerned, that stuff is between good and great. You can't use it fresh in any quantity, but by the time it's been bagged, it's good for the lawn....See Moremike-jaramillo
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