poor little sicky (green bean)

jazzymaddy on 5/25/2011, 5:25 am

Anyone recognize this sickness? My poor babies. Sad

HPartin on 5/25/2011, 7:18 am

Yes, I recognize and no, I don't have a solution. Your green beans looked exactly mine before they started to turn yellow. I have pictures in the other green been post a couple of days ago. My guess is that you didn't treat seeds with an occulent? I am thinking that is what my problem is.

Heidi

jazzymaddy on 5/25/2011, 8:03 am

HPartin wrote:Yes, I recognize and no, I don't have a solution. Your green beans looked exactly mine before they started to turn yellow. I have pictures in the other green been post a couple of days ago. My guess is that you didn't treat seeds with an occulent? I am thinking that is what my problem is.

Heidi

Gosh. I keep learning new things. Sometimes it's after the fact, and a little frustrating, but it'll help me out for next time. Occulant. I'll have to look that up. Thanks.

In the meantime, anyone else have any suggestions on what to do?

pattipan on 5/25/2011, 8:13 am

It's called inoculant. It's a natural soil bacteria that aids the growth of legumes (e.g. peas, beans, clovers). I use it for my sugar snap peas, but not for my beans. It's more of a choice, not a requirement -- especially if you have a good blend of composts in your Mel's Mix.

http://www.mbsseed.com/inoculant_know-how.htm

pattipan

dizzygardener on 5/25/2011, 11:26 am

Are those transplants or were the leaves wet/oily during the day?

I've got a pepper that looks like that. It was sunburned.

jazzymaddy on 5/25/2011, 12:17 pm

Not transplants. Hmmm, but we did have a couple of heavy rains, and maybe a couple of crazy hose sessions from the kids. Sunburn sounds like a real possibility. I just picked those leaves off today, and I'll keep an eye on them going forward.

Thanks for the help!

Uprooted on 5/26/2011, 7:28 am

I had the same problem -- I have yellow beans and lima beans and they both have leaves like that. My mother thought it was a sucking insect but I found a total of two bugs under all the leaves in my garden.

The newer leaves don't have those dead looking spots but are growing in all stunted and distorted looking.

Yellow beans:

Lima beans:

Example of similar problem:

Any advice or perspective would be appreciated.

Uprooted on 5/26/2011, 7:31 am

Oh, and I did not use inoculant either.

jazzymaddy on 5/26/2011, 7:33 am

Anyone? Bueller? Wink

dizzygardener on 5/26/2011, 1:22 pm

I sent the pictures to my country extension agent and she agrees with me and thinks it is sun scald. Here is a link for ore info: http://www.ppdl.purdue.edu/PPDL/hot07/7-12.html .

She also thought it could be burn from foliage feeding. Are you spraying any fertilizer? If so, which one?

Uprooted on 5/26/2011, 4:06 pm

Ah, dizzy, thanks -- sunscald for the dry looking patches. (I assume you sent jazzymaddy's pix.) And thanks for reminding me to look up my county extension. They do have a neat online questions form so I uploaded my pix w/ the distorted leaves and my question about that. I'm crossing my fingers and hoping for a response! Would you say that most extension agents are familiar w/ the SFG method? I did explain the blend they are planted in.

It also looks like my yellow beans are trying to vine but they were supposedly bush bean seeds.

**walshevak** on 5/26/2011, 5:54 pm

Uprooted wrote:! Would you say that most extension agents are familiar w/ the SFG method? I did explain the blend they are planted in.

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I've talked to the extension agent in 2 counties in NC and both were aware of SFG but more or less dismissed it as a serious method. For what it's worth.

Kay

jazzymaddy on 5/26/2011, 8:30 pm

You're the best dizzy! Thanks so much for finding that out for me!

Goosegirl on 5/27/2011, 4:16 am

jazzymaddy wrote:Anyone? Bueller?

One of Hubby's favorite lines!

Uprooted on 5/27/2011, 6:24 am

I did find this photo online of a virus which makes the leaves look a lot like mine in my top photo: Bean Common Mosaic Potyvirus

I really don't understand much in the agricultural fact sheets I pull up when I search on this but so far I haven't seen a way to treat it. Sad

Will be interesting to see what extension agent says.

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Me too, plus some misshapen new leaves

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