No, no, no...LOL! You do it whenever its convenient for you :) Just passing along a little useless info...hehehe
My visit to U of Ga Ag Dept
Gretchen, feel free to tell me anytime to get off my BFB and get to work! I am pathetic! LOL
Poor pathetic Kell. Poor pathetic me. We both need to get up off our bfb's. lol Reminds of when my little granddaughter followed me out the front door a couple of years ago, and as we were going through the door she said "Grannie, you've got a big b..t." Leave it to a child to tell it like it is. lol lol
Wow did this thread get off course, or what? ...I got a few more things planted today and a few more were transplanted up. Everything in the GH is growing faster than I can keep up with it. The brug seedlings I just took out there have nearly doubled in size in a few days! I hope they can survive in there another month... Then I hope they make it with just automatic watering for three weeks in the heat of this summer. I really should have my head examined for straying from my tried and true Native xeric-scape and getting into these. But I LOVE them...
this is the response I receved from U of O...
Dear Caren:
It's not something for me, so I contacted the pathologist to see if she would be interested in the plant, but she can find only a minor reference to it on a grower website, not in the literature. So she didn't feel it was something for her, especially as it is a sparingly cultivated plant. Thanks for thinking of us, though!
I just got this.
Please read the message below that was forwarded to me concerning a possible diagnosis and solution to your plant's health.
John Stecker
Soil Testing Services
Fusarium is a fungal disease most often soil-borne for which there is no “cure”. If this gentleman’s Brugmansia has Fusarium wilt the best advise would be to try and propagate a tip cutting from the plant as a way to obtain a disease-free start.
it doesn't sound like there's much interest!
Carena, this is what happened to Monika in Germany. I believe she said, they went so far then said it was not worth pursuing because it was not a commercially grown plant.
Too bad Root, sounds like you also have come up against a brick wall.
Well, we will just have to grow alot more so they want to find out more about it!
Root, do they have the plant in their possesion or are they just assuming?
That was a letter from a Soil Techie,the plant is on its way to K State,I am in contact,I just thought it was intresting seeing the wall seemed the same as Carenas.
You may slow the Root down,but I'm never out.
What's that song?
I get knocked down,but,I get up again,you ain't never gonna keep me down..
Most european brugnuts have discussed the stängelbrand and we share our knowledges to each other.Not much brugs will get it, only some special breedings.To do a inbreeding line with special brugs seems not to be good........I never again would cross back a yellow suavolenshybrid with a parent or sister.
Examble: A Charles Grimaldi x Golden Aurea seedling, never cross back with CG ( because CG has suavolensgenes).
Most breeder here do not have problems with stängelbrand because they use many different brugs for breeding.As less you make a inbreeding line as less you will have problems:-)
I am very grateful that the europeanbreeder are so open in sharing knowledges and breedingmaterial.We are going to share all our brugs this summer because everyone needs a backupbrug.
Arlene is right:Watch your tomatoes and potatoes:-)
sometimes you will find an ill plant, dont worry...plant a new one.
Sorry for my (may be) stupid words.....:-)
all I want to say: Stängelbrand is a serious illness but it will not destroy all brugs.Only some and we have much.....here and there.
Love you
As one person who has had Stangelbrand, and with the little knowledge we have about this disease, I can only stress that keeping your tools clean and not using them from one plant to another without sterilizing, will be our best way of insuring that we do not spread the disease to our good plants. Remember, it can infect brugs with genes other than suaveolens genes if you transfer it through your tools, and by re-using soil or even from sap under your fingernails, if you pop leaves off the way I do. I hope that those of you who have been able to get your infected plants off to be inspected are going to get some kind of definitive answer to this problem, but if not, we will just have to try to eradicate the disease through tossing (burning) infected plants, destroying the soil and sterilizing pots and tools. Hang in there...we can whip this if everyone who grows/trades/sells brugs will be vigilant. JMHO.