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Old August 18, 2016   #3
gorbelly
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I inspected the stems consistently at least every other day, and still got SVB on one plant, even though I never found any eggs. ???
They can get sneaky and lay eggs on a leaf. They also sometimes lay eggs right under the soil line where they're hard to see. I inspect plants and pick off eggs by hand, but I also spray spinosad or Bt around the base--really drench every surface on the base of the vines and let some drip down into the soil right around the base to make sure the vines are covered just under the soil line. That seems to do the trick. I did get a borer further upstream in one plant in the hollow stem of a leaf higher up than I would normally spray. Saw one wilted leaf on an otherwise healthy plant, checked it, and saw the tiny bore hole. I injected concentrated spinosad into the hole just in case the borer was making its way down to the main vine. Seemed to do the trick.
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