Is this a cabbage worm problem on my broccoli and cauliflower?
hawk_941
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Please help with broccoli & cabbage seed starting problem! URGENT
Comments (14)I have the plants growing in moisture control Miracle Grow seed starting soil. While this may not be the perfect soil to use, that is all I could get at the time I started these. What makes me really wonder is when I move them to the greenhouse, sometimes the problem goes away although I water the same and the dirt is still the same. Although I don't have lights right above them in the greenhouse. (I know 6" may be too tall but I don't want to burn my plants and I had heard you could burn them. They are the gro florouscent type bulbs that you can get specifically for growing plants under. How low can I put them without damaging the plants? Below are some pictures of the problem. This first one shows a plant that just started to wilt this morning. By this evening when I took the photo, the 2 top leaves were totally wilted. As you can see from the photo, it looks like the roots and stem are fine so this probably wouldn't be a damping off problem would it? This photo shows the plant that is starting to wilt. And finally, this photo shows the leaves that instead of wilting so bad like the other plants, the ends of the leaves just dried up. (The wilted leaves above will dry up also in another day or so. So it could be the same problem, this one didn't wilt as bad though.) I hope this is enough info to help you figure out what is going wrong. I have been unable to grow broccoli, cauliflower, and cabbage because of this problem. It attacks every year no matter what! Usually I manage to save only a few plants out of several hundred I start. Thanks for your help!...See Morewhat's eating my broccoli (besides the cabbage worms)
Comments (3)I know how to stop that critter! I have a large veggie garden that is critter free! how? My husband put up an electric fence around the whole garden. It is only about a foot high. There are three strands of wire. The bottom wire is an inch from the ground, the second one an inch from the bottom wire, and then an inch to the top wire. No animal can climb up or dig under without touching the wire. And once they hit it, that is the last time they will come near your garden. Now for deer. Yes, they can step over the wire, and that is where one of the Scarecrow Water Sprayer comes in. Buy one of those, and your garden will be deer and bird free. Now if I can only figure out how to electricute bugs....See MoreCabbage, broccoli, cauliflower & lettuce
Comments (5)Sorry for the delay. I've moved almost everything outside. I still have a few late started flowers inside but all the veggies have been planted in the garden. I've been pretty busy with my new containers. My neighbor had som pretty large fiberglass containers he used for raising worms. He no longer uses them so I asked and he gave me a couple to make a raised container garden. I've got one planted and am ready to put the other on blocks. It took $50 worth of soil to fill the first one and it's not quite full but that's ok because after I've trimmed the bottom leaves from the tomatoes planted in it I can finish filling it so the plants can make more roots where the bottom leaves were. Back to the subject, it's starting to get hot here so I imagine I will be working more on the inside planters now to stay cool. One problem I have is the window boxes I have are just a little too long for the windows so I've got to buy a shorter one or use smaller containers. I like the window boxes because they have their own tray. I'm guessing the broccoli and cauliflower is out because they take more light but what about cabbage? Anyone ever grown it inside?...See MoreBroccoli, Cauliflower and Cabbage
Comments (11)I started a flat of cole crops first of july. I put them out in my Hoop house(which doesn't have the cover on in the summer)the first or second week of August. I did 2 kinds of sprouting broccoli, which are specifically bred to overwinter. You cut the head at the first sign of it, and they are supposed to sideshoot like mad real early in the spring and continue for some time. The seed pack had days to harvest as 220, reflecting the need to grow in summer, overwinter, then sprout through spring and into early summer. They are supposed to be extremely cold hardy, and if I remember they have some cross with kale in them. Kind of a commitment, but I'm going for winter/early spring harvests out of the hoophouse as much as possible. I also had January King cabbage in the same flat. The sprouting Broccoli plants are about 2 feet tall and wide, so they are big. The cabbage(again, a winter variety) is just starting to form heads now. They are also bigger plants than I was expecting. We have a few more days in the 80's, next week should be in the 60's for a high, and I doubt we will climb into the 70's much after the cold front comes through, so I will be covering soon. I was also thinking of putting in some fall clearance plants from the nursery, but I don't know that they will have enough time to mature into anything. My understanding is for the plants to be approaching maturity when the cold comes, and they grow under protection(slowly) throughout the cold winter and you harvest them as needed. Come spring warm up and longer photo-period, they start bolting. I dunnno, might try anyway. Check out Territorial Seed's winter growing catalog, there is some cool stuff in it, pun intended....See Moredaninthedirt (USDA 9a, HZ9, CentTX, Sunset z30, Cfa)
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