Wilted Branches

[greeenman707]

Hello farmers:

I have a lady that so far a couple branches have gone wilted. She does not need water. The first branch my buddy told me about. Then a couple days ago, I watered and everything looked fine. Then the next day I showed up it was wilted. It was still connected to the main stalk. I moved the branch and it came right off. HELP. PLEASE. Any suggestions on what it might be? Is it contagious

 

[weednazi]

Greeenman I have experienced the same problem with several plants. First it is one branch, then it spreads to the rest. I have had to pull several plants. I believe that it is Fusarium Wilt. Upon inspection of the root base, I saw white mold and a brown line going thur the stem. They say that Actinovate helps prevent it... but it doesn't do much when its that far along. the stem, just below the soil is actually rotting away. fungus is traveling up the stem, stopping the water flow up and causing the wilt. It works its way up to stem and branches.

The other thing it could be is Pythium or root rot. Easy way to tell this is to carefully dig around the stem and if the roots are slimy and peel apart... you got pythium. Phosphorous acid based fungicide such as Agri-Fos can fix this sometimes.

Both of these suck equally. Unfortunately I have become somewhat of an expert on these, ask any questions if you like.