Bean White Mold: Complete Treatment Guide
What is Bean White Mold?
Symptoms
- White cottony growth
- Soft watery tissue
- Black sclerotia
- Stem lesions
- Plant wilting
- Pod damage
What Causes Bean White Mold?
- Sclerotinia sclerotiorum
- Cool temperatures
- High humidity
- Dense canopy
- Poor air flow
- Previous infection
How to Treat Bean White Mold
Organic Treatments
- Beneficial fungi
- Proper spacing
- Canopy management
- Remove infected parts
- Clean practices
- Air circulation
Chemical Treatments
- Preventive fungicide
- Timing sprays
- Systemic products
- Regular treatment
Cultural Controls
- Wide spacing
- Air circulation
- Crop rotation
- Canopy management
- Clean practices
- Regular monitoring
How to Prevent Bean White Mold
- Proper spacing
- Good drainage
- Crop rotation
- Clean practices
- Resistant varieties
- Field selection
Recommended Fertilizers for Bean White Mold
- Balanced nutrition
- Plant strengtheners
- Disease resistance
- Growth management