arlene, Stengelbrand or Stengelfäule,

on branches of CG. Its deadly to many Multihybrids, which have much suaveolens influence in their genes. Endangered are yellow or golden flowering Brugmansias, pink hybrids can get it too but not in such an extention. Its a spreading fungus disease. Infected plants must be disposed off. There is no cure.

can tip cuttings be taken or is the whole plant infected?

The whole plant is infected.

thanks Monika! now, who wants to trade with me? i have everything exotic!!!!!! poppysue, do you feel better, i have the NASTIES. i do believe nematodes probably affected this plant, plus it was in way too much sun, always planned on moving it.
the translation i put on the other link came up as pseudomonas bacteria, usually affecting already weakened plants.
Ms Monika, i am so glad you are back.

A bacteria infection could be prevented with simple methods like Chinosol or Rivanol. Its also used to cure fungus on tropical aquarium fishes. I cure bacterial diseases on Tagetes with Chinosol.

I kept infected plants just for the reason, to find out if there is a way for prevention or cure. I placed healthy CGs within sick plants and sprayed/watered with Chinosol and/or Mennoflorades, latter kills even Virus. I finally deceided, to dispose any suspicious plant.

Monika...can this spread on cuttings that appear clean?and how easily is it spread? :-) Thanks!

It can and it does spread on cuttings, which seem to be clean, Kyle. The only good thing, I can say about this disease, that only few hybrids are endangered getting it.
Mainly yellow Multihybrids get it, CG for instance is highly prone to it.

Monika, this was on a pink candida. this part is very confusing to me, unless it is another difference in climates. and it was very busy blooming and putting on pretty new leaves. i am still wondering about this. is cork the english name for this disease? cause it looked like an HG that i saw with cork on it before. it's right next to the pool, could have picked up fungus there, but the stangelbrand definitely translates into pseudomonas bacteria which affects azaleas and lilacs in the US, and the article i read said you could take cuttings from unaffected areas.

You should try it and see if the cuttings will stay clean.
Arlene, I keep my fingers crossed for you, that it will NOT be Stengelbrand.

thanks Monika, will take it in to see.

I bumped this thread up again because of the theme. It shows the disease in a advanced stadium

This message was edited Sep 26, 2003 3:21 PM

Last year my HG looked fine but then in the fall it got cell blast after the temps went down too low. The corky bark started after that. My first thought was it was reacting to the cell blast and healing over. None of the other plants looked like this tho...

Time to bump this one up again...

Yes it IS!!! Thank you PoppySue!!

I knew someone would find more for us, TY Poppysue =)
Hugz,§

Well folks , It's been over a year ,........

Once more it's time to *bump*

This message was edited Jun 21, 2005 10:13 PM

Thanks Sue. The more info the better. Seems we are seeing more and more of it now

Sue ?

lol

*bump*