Brandon Hitchner

This were helpful posts. Just to clarify and add a little more context...I plan on going COMPLETELY natural/organic or whatever you may label it. I plan on using bones, feathers, worms, blood, the thing....but I guess I just didn't understand a clear definition of "low nitrogen", just based on the definitions I got from searches. I spoke with a friend a little after I posted this....and she had suggested/she does compost and relies just on that (she's adamantly against all box chain stuff etc.), and I basically won't have access to such things either, since I will be far off grid and not near a road system. So it goes to say, I could be looking at the wrong thing (the numbers) rather than specific nutrients that are needed. Sorry I came with the "store" type of questions...I felt like the number system isn't really needed...just need specific amendments, for specific situations....which can also be an answer to my question...I guess I didn't understand the general part to "low nitrogen"....it was always an odd explanation

I have read many times, that some plants, at some point, need low nitrogen type fertilizer. Then they say, find a fertilizer that the Nitrogen number is lower than the rest. I don't understand how that is considered low nitrogen?? For example, a 7-6-9 fertilizer for fruits and vegetables?! I understand that the number is the percentage of each...but I don't understand, for example, cantaloupe, you don't want Nitrogen when the fruit sets....but products or whatever will still have a number like the 7-6-9 and they will call that low nitrogen?!?! Can someone please help or explain this to me, please?

Thanks

I've come across these multiple times and they are always in a cluster on the underside of the canteloupe leaves. I've cleared them off all my young plants, BUT, they keep seeming to reappear! I took a few photos, maybe someone has had experience with these? Closest thing I found was melonmoth worm, but I feel it might be wrong, I don't know.

TIA

Brandon

I've started my pole beans for a fall harvest, I'm hoping. I've had some difficulties with diseases on most if not all of the beans I've started. This1 in particular, I have not seen on any except this 1. It is also spreading. I sprayed a copper fungicide on it, but it still seemed to spread over 24 hour period. Does anyone have a clue what this is? I haven't been able to find an answer to this. TIA

I'm interested to see how precise and accurate it could get!!

*UPDATE*

So, my watermelon plant has done very well so far, besides the fact, that it aborts all of the female flowers/fruits. I do have 1 watermelon that has been growing since it started flowering. Does anyone know why the female flower would abort, continously, even if I hand pollinate them? I've included new updated pics!

Yea, it can definitely be frustrating not knowing...hopefully it will still flourish, cross my fingers.
Also, I really appreciate all the help and trying to figure it out...just wanted to reiterate that! I'll definitely let you all know the outcome, for any future reference!!

Yea, I tried to look up everything I could...but it seems like it could be anthracnose...and that fungal disease seems to look different on every plant...put symptoms seemed to match for the most part...the fast spread, color (?) Etc

No, the black stuff doesn't rub off. I did go ahead and spraya fungicide on the plant, because like I mentioned, in a 24 hour period it took over basically the entire plant that was at ground level....the leaves died over night...I guess the good news is, the fungicide worked, as in, not letting it spread anymore. Honestly I was really not wanting to use anything I can't get from nature, but this is learning period and trying to absorb as much as possible as fast as possible. But, even tho it stopped it, I cut away all the infected leaves, because from what I could tell, it spread SO FAST, that I think it had to be spread by wind....so now, it's basically the vines that started in ground, and whatever was healthy that started climbing up the trellis/fencing I placed....ituse to cover that entire straw covered area, not now....I'm wondering if it will make it

1 thing I noticed, when I googled the melon anthracnose, is that, in those pictures, they showed the disease on the underside of the leaf also....on my plant, there is no signs, anywhere on the underside...so would that rule out anthracnose?