[MoreWhisky]

My pumpkin plant is/was doing very well with 6 nice fruit the size of small footballs to.

Went down to plot today and i would say about 70% of the leaves have turned grey and have the texture of dust! and crumble when touched.

Take it this is some kind of mould to the old leaves as the newer outside ones are healthy , just not many of them.

Any advice about this would be much appreciated as dont wanna loose those fruits now  .

Cheers MW.

[peapod]

Sounds like powdery mildew, give them a spray with milk and water and remove the worst leaves

[MoreWhisky]

Thanks peapod will go do it tonight.

Wont be many leaves left tho after i removed grey ones.

Milk and water  :blink:  theres a strange mix to spray, whats the science of that?

[Lady Lottie]

http://www.pioneerthinking.com/tv-mildew.html

this makes interesting reading.

I lost ALL my courgette and pumpkin plants to it last year.....but I didn't try the milk thing - wish I had now!

[Kate and her Ducks]

I'll be trying this tomorrow.

[MoreWhisky]

I used this milk spray method tonight , will update if i find it works fingers crossed.

I cut away all the grey dead leaves and sprayed this milk water solution. The plant looks very bare and the pumpkins look all exposed . Hope the thing pulls through ok