What is going on everyone? Welcome back to the show. Today we are talking about

Fusarium wilt blight, rot, whatever you want to call it. It is most commonly known at least to me as damping off disease.

So what this does is it causes your newly sprouted seedling stems to collapse

and it's one of the few reasons that you can have problems starting your seeds.

So, did you know that Fusarium itself is a widespread genus of multiple species

which can also cause a number of blights and rot. So it's not just

damping off that we're talking about, it is a few different baskets of plant diseases.

So first of all, we need to talk about what fusarium actually is.

Let's get technical. It is a large group of fungal hypomycetes. These are sometimes considered anamorphic. They're basically a form of mold.

However, like many types of fungi, it has a mycelium that can spread throughout the soil and sometimes it can actually

spread throughout plant tissue as well. You cannot see this, however, without the aid of a microscope.

So don't be thinking that you can just inspect your plant and see the mycelium.

You cannot.

Similarly, the spores for fusarium can linger in soil or on plant matter.

It will eat both living and dead plant material, so it's really important when it comes to

preventing this disease to keep your garden beds free of debris. If you have, you know, plant

tissue, plant matter on the surface of your soil.

It's getting wet, it's in contact with living

plant tissue, can be kind of an issue.

OK, so there are 14 different types of fusarium.

Of course we cannot talk about all of those.

So I would highly, highly recommend you go to the article

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