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June 6, 2015 | #1 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: May 2012
Location: massachusetts
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Bean pest
Beans are looking bad, pale poorly formed leaves, their nutrition should be good as everything else is growing on the same nutrient.
There are a few aphids, not many at all yet on the beans. There is a distinctive black dust like speck spread along the veins of the underside of the leaves. also saw one or 2 mite looking things, again not many at all. i think the "dust" is the bad actor, any ideas what i got? Thanks, Nematode |
June 6, 2015 | #2 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: May 2011
Location: Laurinburg, North Carolina, zone 7
Posts: 3,207
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Sooty mold,I think.
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June 8, 2015 | #3 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: May 2012
Location: massachusetts
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Any chance its thrips excrement?
Entire garden is under stress, Beans are stunted with crinkled leaves, tomato has upside down leaves which I have noticed is a sign of aphids, i dont know if it is a sign of thrips or not. Sprayed with pyganic, Mycotrol will arrive in a couple days. Last year sprayed with mycotrol once or twice and got a full season of protection. It colonizes and hangs around in my garden, weeks after spraying i will find what looks like a tiny cotton ball with 6 legs, thats a fungus infected aphid. |
June 8, 2015 | #4 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: AL
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I agree with Tracy that it is sooty mold. Besides the aphids, I would be looking for some possible beetles. The sotty mold is usually a second infection from something else. I've never seen thrips cause sooty mold before.
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