Pumpkin Problems! Squash Vine Borer Infestation!

[skinnedkitten]

it's pronouced exCrement. not exTrement lol

[MyDaddysgirl44]

OMg... is this vine still living??? good grief.. I hope I don't get any of those..really curious if yours made it..

[SleestaksRule]

@MyDaddysgirl44 It died but I think it would have lived with better weather conditions, I still have my garden 300 miles North that is doing great.

[dylan14570]

I had the same problem with my garden in Florida...but with cucumbers! It was gross and I rarely got cucs. I think my last year, I tried an organic spray, BT, and it worked a little. I had pickle worms which ate into the cuc and devoured it from the inside out.

[ArizonaAdventures]

so it seems like these guys are coming up from in the soil...have you tried using any beneficial nematoads?

[garygardens]

Cool. I remember doing that many years ago (in WI) and it worked, much to my surprise. Hope you are successful too. I only remember finding one though, not six! Holy cow.

[SleestaksRule]

@garygardens I had hopes but this is about day 4 and not looking good. I think they got to my other squash too on the other side of the lot but not sure yet. I hear they don't go West of the Rockies. But then we don't have slugs. Even trade.

[infringinator]

@SleestaksRule I wouldve checked the stalks you cut off at first there mightve been some larvae in those

[mediamaker2000]

Those are some destructive bugs! Good thing you knew what to look for. Looks like you have done plant surgery before!

[loislaney23]

Great info. I have been spraying neem on my squash bugs. Have not noticed vine borers. Thank goodness. Those things are ugly. Can't believe how many were in there. Gross!!

[GardenMatreshka]

Very informative, thank you! I hope your pumpkin plant recovers well!

[Planting81]

My ants aren't quite as helpful they are aphid farming ants

[Mr420ways]

hey man im growin pumpkins and off of 4 vines i only see 2 female flowers(pumpkins) this morning one flower was brown unopend and the bulb/baby pumpkin under the flower was shriveld like a raisin?? why do u think this is hapening? and why only 2 female flowr are showing...will more pop out?? i want to pollinate and get fat pumpkins i learnd how to do that by your vids..thanks bro and any help would be great..ps the vines started out of a rotted halloween pumpkin..lol 

[SleestaksRule]

@Mr420ways You'll get lots of male flowers at the start but then the female ones start popping out like crazy after about 6 feet of vine. Lots of the female ones fail but keep trying. The one I pollinated in my last Wisconsin update video I haven't seen for 2 weeks but I get to see it this weekend. Hopefully it took. It was a female that opened that morning.

[Mr420ways]

@SleestaksRule thanks man that takes alot of frustration out of this patch..lol next season im pulling out the stops and growing all sorts of stuff, thank goodness i found yer channel!! u realy help alot!!! and informative!!

[sugerbear520]

seven dust

[cheesestr4wz]

WOW that's what we call grub worms ....

[cheesestr4wz]

Ahhh HA !!!! THAT's what got my squash !!!! Should I have used seven dust ?

[gardenvespers777]

EEEEeooooooo!!!!!  lol

[bvbjb]

Great video!! Thank you. They have ruined my season this year. Now I know a little more about how to deal with them and what to look for.

[mhpgardener]

LOL...extra mint ! I try to keep the trunk of the plant sprayed with liquid sevin or Orthomax. It really helps. Hahaha..feed the ants. It also helps know friend from foe in the garden. Moths seem harmless, but they are wolves in sheeps clothing. Much like the moth/wasp vine borer, and the moths that are responsible for cabbage worms amd corn ear worms. Needless to say, I don't like moths.

[SleestaksRule]

@mhpgardener I think I'll try that for next year. I read that the liquid is better than the dust and should be applied at dusk when the bees aren't active. Bees bring the dust version back the the hive and poison other bees.

[skybirdbird]

i think i remember hearing that foil around the base of the plant helps... but not sure memory serves me well...

nice surgery...!

[biojovial]

@skybirdbird I tried the foil thing this year, didn't help :(

[baconsoda]

Not what I would call the most attractive after-dinner entertainment but I persevered and was rewarded by seeing the ants exact revenge for you. Good stuff. I'm glad we don't have those boyos here.

Best Wishes, Brendan.

[rainieda]

I lost all of my squash/zucchini to these little.... creatures. Thanks for the video!

[underworldclassroom]

excellent information. thank you for making this presentation! very helpful! big thumbs up!

[swsebrownsugar1888]

nasty little buggers, go ants go, i hope it lives, plant seeds in tissue rolls or paper cups when they get there true leaves then transplant tissue roll/ paper cup outside

[bweez100]

i just got some fish emosion wat does it really do 4 tha plant

[SleestaksRule]

@bweez100 I'm hoping it encourages new root growth at the areas I burried. I need new roots ASAP.

[bweez100]

@SleestaksRule oh ok thanks

[19Photographer76]

Thanks for taking to time to video this. I had a thought while watching - if you make a hole large enough for the larvae to come out close to the ground and then a smaller hole above their last dump site and use an irrigation syringe to flush them out. If it worked, it could save a lot of damage to the base. If you washed the excriment and made a hole, do you think the ants would go in and get them?

[SleestaksRule]

@19Photographer76 They were pretty stubborn but flushing them that way may work. One was down the stem about at ground level and almost missed it. I read about people using needles to poke the stem and kill the that way but that seems like it would take a while with unknown results. Some people inject the vine with BTK Insecticide but I'd hate to eat anything from that. I left the area I cut open for an hour or so and the ants were all over it. Not sure if they got more.

[dalecalder2003]

Nasty little buggers aren't they. I noticed some yellow leaves on my squash this morning, now I have to go check to see if I have the same thing.

[Georgiahomestead]

What a great, discriptive video. It is so much better to see what the problems are than read about them. I hope the plant makes it after that much extra care. Nice work.