Disease update

The disease that popped up over night last Friday to Saturday has been successfully eradicated. The disease starts out and by infecting the leaf the fungal spore is one and then the leaf blade next to it in a circular pattern. That's what gives it the small ring appearance. If you look closely in the picture inside the damaged area you can see the new leaf tissue beginning to pop out. The damage should disappear very quickly.

By the way, there was so much wide spread disease outbreak this week some vendors had either run out of fungicides or are desperately low on supply. As a general rule I always have enough product to make two full applications of many different fungicides. We might now always have enough of somethings, but we always have enough plant protective products like fungicides. As you have seen, a fungus outbreak can become rampant over night and you have to be able to kill it immediately!