Bacterial Wilt

[VC Scott]

I lost a KBX to what I think is bacterial wilt. This poor plant was half eaten by quail as a seedling and struggled to for awhile. After a month it regained its vigor and was starting to set fruit. Then out of the blue, the flower trusses at the top of the plant and some of the young leaves turned brown. The brown was a different color than Early Blight and it started at the top rather than the bottom. The next day a whole stem was droopy. I cut it out, but the next day the whole plant went down hill.

In removing the plant I found some stems were hollow and at the base of the stem there was a brown ring, as seen in the pictures attached. So far this is the only plant with the problem. I hope the bacteria was introduced during the quail attack and that the surrounding plants are not affected.

Wilt
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Brown blotch on new leaves.
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Brown ring around stem at ground level.
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