Pickling cucumber planting delays continue. Some growers were setting aside their last sweet corn plantings to get pumpkins in last week.
CucCAP Disease Management Team
The Disease Management Team contributions to the CucCAP project include English and Spanish factsheets about cucurbit crop and disease management strategies including images of disease symptoms for crop producers, articles about cucurbit plant pathology, and articles about the team’s research efforts and accomplishments.
Cucumber downy mildew detected in NC | NC State
Characteristic symptoms include angular, chlorotic lesions on the upper surface of cucurbit leaves and gray sporulation on the underside of the leaves. Sporangiophore structures typical of Pseudoperonospora cubensis, causal agent of CDM, can be observed using a hand lens or under a dissecting microscope.
Extension/Outreach Team | 2019 CucCAP Progress Report
Team members:, Jonathan Schultheis (N. Carolina St.Univ.), Mary Hausbeck (Michigan St. Univ.), Angela Linares (Univ. Puerto Rico), Jim McCreight (USDA, ARS), Lina Quesada (N. Carolina St. Univ.), Chris Smart (Cornell Univ.), and Linda Wessel Beaver (Univ. Puerto Rico): Provide readily accessible information to facilitate disease control, Develop a centralized cucurbit disease website, Provide disease alerts and forecasting tools, Provide diagnostic and disease management assistance, and host Field days and demonstration plots.
Results of the 2018 Watermelon Triploid Standard and Mini Watermelon Cultigen Evaluation Studies | NC State Extension
Watermelon standard size and mini watermelon cultigen evaluation studies were conducted at the Horticultural Crops Research Station in Clinton, NC in the summer of 2018. NC State Extension Horticultural Science Vegetable specialist Jonathan Schultheis and Research Associate Keith Starke conduct annual variety trials on watermelon and other cucurbit crops. The results of the watermelon evaluations were […]
2018 Cucurbit Cultivar Evaluations
PDMR 13 – Plant Disease Management Reports for Cucurbits
PDMR, Volume 13, 2019.
Results of 2017 & 2018 field trials, Published in 2019.
Plant Disease Management reports for cucumber, melon, pumpkin, and watermelon.
Results of the 2018 Zucchini Squash Variety Cultigen Evaluations are Published at NC State
NC State Extension Horticultural Science Vegetable specialist, Jonathan Schultheis, and Research Associate Keith Starke conduct annual variety trials on a variety of cucurbits. An objective of the NC State extension cucurbit evaluations is to identify adapted cultivars that NC growers can grow profitably. Visit the Cucurbit Variety Trials page to view all of the cucurbit reports. The 2018 Zucchini […]
Cuccap Project Develops Extension Fact Sheets for Important Cucurbit Diseases in English and Spanish
The CucCAP extension team developed 16 extension fact sheets to provide useful information for the detection and control of diseases in cucurbits. Thirteen of the fact sheets were translated to Spanish providing important support for the Hispanic farmers’ community.
