over here i can keep an eye on you of warm weather stuff that is doing really well this year back so well as almost been boring for you know your garden host i mean it's no fun if things aren't exploding your cat's not flyer you know dying in front of you there you go cumbers going to talk a little bit about diagnosis for you covers or anything else on how counter intuitive it can be sure keeps the bad open it just encourages the plant to grow a nice new leaf which might be more efficient lest you know when i can't water get the water he wanted in there because of all this stuff that just comes inconvenient although i notice goldie was standing on one i don't think it was a coincidence so first let's just look at the beets we looked carrots last week and talk about thinning and now the beats are getting to a point where they kind of need it since we've planted clumps of seeds and each p c has several embryos and we've got quite a few plants of these space and nodes back we've kind of almost filled in the row which is fine for now but we want to go in full about soil and then they kind of corkscrew and flop over and you can either pull in some compost and hill them up a little bit which is a real good thing to do after thinning anyway because these things you know once and you pull their mate away you know they're going to start flopping on and they get a little you know tossed around when you're standing up so they'll fly up to you can or just kill this morning till the soil and you know just come to either side and pull the soil in ones that got a little oversize there weren't i didn't want to bother with canning the bread and butter so i did a little fresh pickle and this pet is we've observed all summer long is doing great and this is exactly where the rectum to be this time of work this bed for quite a while this spring so i doubt it's nitrogen deficiency at this point they've done well in their furry you know there's a nice cucumber there you know they're already starting to produce but then i came back they'll they'll retract a little bit what they're doing is they're shutting down the transpiration through the leaf which shuts off the pressure in the stem and in the leaf so the leaf goes a little flacid and tell the target pressure returns when they searched transpiring again it's like a siphon it's like second through a straw and when you plug the end you know that that pressure goes down so so that's normal but this was in the evening and it was obviously very well to now a lot of people personally think is a poor baby needs water that you know even i had a you know it's like oh maybe i should water those and i noticed it was just one  plant which actually turned into three plants but they were scattered randomly through the and not next to each other it's very rare for one plant to be wilting and the plant right next to it not wilt if it's water you know generally the plants can reach over and this bed i started suspecting some sort of fungus like you sorry i'm attacking the roots to take the roots off of a plant now it's got no you know nothing to absorb that moisture and again you lose the target pressure because now the bottom of the straw isn't supplying the moisture so i started thinking fungus which means not don't water it if you if you're getting a fungus on your way into the roots  cucumber you've watered it too much and i think that might that's what i was thinking might have happened but in which case if it is a fungus i wanted out of there this plant is pretty much you can just tell it's not going to meet with the symptoms and i don't want to infecting the other so carefully pull the roots and sure enough do you know confirming my suspicions these roots are gone normally if i pulled up a healthy one you know q curbstone have an extensive root system especially a short season one like this cucumbers but they should have a lot more mass and a lot more fibrous  coming up so you can see this root system has been decimated and so i thought it then you know if you suspect fungus a fungus could very well look like that various root drugs but what happened is it took it over and let me grab one of these later this is a little piece of tape that's in between these two cumber stems married with the flesh side down we're going to can usually see it's not like bacteria small which is nice because you can usually see hifi or mycelium growing or that sort of thing if that's the problem you can also do a cross section of this and look at the vascular system same thing so i was looking sort of for fun guy for insulin but upon slapping this baby up here this is about this is it ten x you know so this is a dissecting microscopes not to cure the powerful it's sort of like a a really nice hand lens because it's got a much wider view and better focus and that sort of thing  culprits here i think they've moved on now but this plant is exhibiting exactly what the other ones did which is right at the soil line here and it's kind of hard to even see  the difference because it gets all scabby down there anyway but the skin completely girdled just like you know deer in the winter will girdle a tree take that living bark off and that's what carries food nutrients in and that's been doing some real damage on a snappy that i was doing a couple years ago i planted like three or four batches of snap peas that they i know it had to be them because they weren't in the ground long enough to rot out you know before these millipedes with eat these little pieces so traditionally millipedes aren't considered a like a plant eating cast but i've seen them in populations where they will affect plants but they are to try to cedar theoretically so fungus you know maybe i'm getting a little root drop here and there coming in on the second it's kind of hard to tell at this point but right now my money is sort of on the millipedes when you get pest populations of these things  that'll kill anything that's on there i also saw billions of other little things you know the soil is so crowded in the spring tails something a little smaller the spring tails something a little smaller  phosphate based you know snail and slug baits i know there if i've heard they're effective for the pill bugs and sell books again they work better when they're moist and it might be worth a try to you know sprinkle a few of the pellets in and kind of work them into the soil a little bit down the row see if you know we can't knock these things down in the mean time i had cucumbers in that bad last year and i think it's time for the first pepper was and they looked red on camera so i hope you can see you know under different lighting conditions that these are really turning up a fiery orange which is what i'm after this is the breeding project i don't mind that pepper size  know fairly typical semi feral you know new mexican ha shape we also have down here more about obviously some new mexican  influences here with a bigger pepper you know you could be down the espanola valley right there looking at these unfortunately and there's there's my first sign i think these ripen to red i  have a red new mexican morphology that comes out once a year usually but i've been trying to rogue out despite the fact that it's a really good new mexican  pepper plant but it's not what i'm after now if i could get this in orange it really happening but there's some good chili riaz there and hardly wait in fact since i'm not saving seed off the red ones i can start picking those for green chile for green chile which is what a lot of people like the mexicans you want to pick them just you know let em get full sized i like to give him another week or two for flavor and  corn this year i really don't know that much about corn genetics are fascinating you've got to keep the one sweet corn away from the other sweet corn otherwise you get field corn now i'm not quite sure why that is  nice in fact a couple of these are probably getting ready for harvest i should look at the package and see how big these ears were supposed to get you know they usually say you know seven inch or ten inch year and  e idea of whether this is large or small cob i can't really remember northern breeder's choice early you know hybrid and i guess this is pretty early for seattle to accomplish a warm weather plants and tight enough to pollinate they're just kind of drop pollinator when pollinated in fact that's an experiment to tasseled this little indian corn back here with one of them from the you know pitch sealed clay pot in the caves down in mexico they found this corn and grew it out and have been selling it for a few years and i want to head clips to tassel which is the middle part on this so it would pollinate these guys so i had a bag on their first two loops pollen is getting out so i'm not sure who pollinated with this point so i'm hoping it went mad off and do i just take the part that's why i like to start out here and leave that stem that we've got a longer fuse before any disease that might be introduced it's the mainst some cases and this is sort of mainly just the plants using this leaf up that's why it's losing its chlorophyll i don't see any particular disease the spots could just be you know desiccation but anything that looks suspicious or just doesn't look useful to the plant go ahead and start pulling leaves off at this point a little bit and then back here i've got a real issue last week we looked at powdery mildew on the well coming up on the and i'm trying not wave this around we talked about powdery mildew on the squash and now we're getting some on the tomato sort of on the shady side where it's shaded for most of the morning and then the sun swings around the plant before that really drives off so we're getting a little moisture related mold here again you know have the bucket you know right there be gentle that's  fruiting bodies from this fungus that's growing on the leaves want to see that white stuff it's spreading its seeds it's like a dandelion seed head you know and it's just waiting for that to knock everything into the air an issue on my tomatoes they keep them dry enough it's late in the season enough where i can afford to come actually let all these leaves slowly senescent die off as long as it doesn't affect the fur  and that's where it gets tricky particularly with quite a thorough the late blight on say it gets in here and it will you know that's what kills them every year basically you know you it's a sure pretty short fuse between the foliage and affecting the fruit because you know or the in these are little invisible water molds that are there well before you see any evidence of them so by the time that you notice something's going wrong it's pretty and then start the slow descent into autumn and with these ripening already this is a real good sign that we're going to get a pretty good crop and i'm starving they have reached the top the cage and i'm starting to tapering off my