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Wilting

21 years ago

Hallo,

I live in Central Texas and it's starting to get pretty warm around here (lower 90's right now) and I have a question about plant wilting.

Basically, the leaves on all my squash plants (Birdhouse gourds, ornamental pumpkins, yellow squash, zucchini, Lumina Pumkin, Regular Pumkin) wilt during the heat of the day and recover fully after the heat lets up a little bit. I looked around online and apparently I have Bacterial Wilt. I wonder if that is true though, because ALL of the squash plants have it and I guess I'm just having a hard time believing that the problem would have spread everywhere immediately. Aside from that, there isn't much dieing of the leaves going on, except for the old ones near the ground that get chewed on a lot.

So, essentially, my question is: "Can leaves just wilt in the heat because they're hot or is this necessarily caused by bacterial wilt" Also, if it just can happen without disease, why do they wilt?

Thanks much,

-Alex

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