Vegetable Disease Update – 6/7/17

  • Pythium root rot has been reported in multiple crops across the state. Unfortunately, the prolonged, wet weather across most of New Jersey has been ideal for its development. There are a number of options for early-season control of pre- and post emergent damping-off pathogens. For more information click here.
  • Downy mildew has been reported as far north as Northern Florida on multiple cucurbit crops and on cucumber in South Carolina and North Carolina on 6/6/17.
  • There have been no new reports of Late blight in the Southeast.