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- Does it recover in the morning and evening? If so, the roots are struggling to take up water.
- Is the soil bone dry, or has it stayed soggy for days?
- Check the base of the stem and the roots for galls, brown streaks, or a rotten smell.
Most likely causes
From the pests and diseases recorded for this plant, the ones whose symptoms match, most serious first. Symptoms alone rarely confirm a cause, so use the linked page to check the signs and treatment.
Bacterial Wilt
Leaves wilt while still green during the day and recover in the morning and evening; after a few days of this the plant dies. Cut the stem and stand it in water and a milky white bacterial ooze streams out in threads.
General description; not specific to this plant.
How to identify and treat: Bacterial WiltSclerotinia Rot
The crown, stem or head rots in a water-soaked way and is covered in white cottony mycelium. Black sclerotia later form inside and on the surface, and the plant wilts and dies.
General description; not specific to this plant.
How to identify and treat: Sclerotinia RotFusarium Wilt of Cucurbits
Part of the vine wilts during the day and eventually the whole plant dies. The stem splits lengthwise near the soil and exudes gum, and the vascular tissue is browned when cut.
General description; not specific to this plant.
How to identify and treat: Fusarium Wilt of CucurbitsOther possible causes
- Southern Blight — The stem rots at soil level and white silky mycelium spreads over the crown and the surrou…
- Root Rot — Fine roots rot brown to blackish brown, growth stops and the lower leaves yellow. The plan…
- Root-knot Nematode — The plant wilts in the daytime and does not recover with feeding or watering. Pull it up a…
Other symptoms on this plant
What other growers did about it
A page like this one can tell you what winter squash plant wilting is and what to try. What it cannot tell you is what actually happened to someone who had it on the same plant, at the same point in the season, and what they did next.
Gadenin is a free garden journal built around that. You photograph the plant, tag what you are seeing, and the entries line up by date for each plant you grow.
- Tag the problem and the app tells you how many other growers have logged the same thing on the same plant.
- Growers who make their records public can be followed, so you can read what they did and how it turned out.
- Next season your own entries come back at the same point in the year, so you check the plant before it starts.
Free on iPhone. Recording, tagging and reading public records cost nothing.