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Old July 16, 2019   #5
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Originally Posted by brownrexx View Post
For example, I grow County Fair cucumbers which are bacterial wilt resistant. They eventually get wilt but not until late in the season when I have harvested plenty of cucumbers.

Non resistant varieties die before I get anything. The cucumber beetles transmit this disease.
Similar here but bacterial wilt kills most tomato plants shortly after the first tomatoes start to color.

I graft on to resistant rootstock - most of these tomatoes will last until the first frost with vines well over 20 feet long.

Jeff
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