6 months after planting standards (i.e.) September – November.
Stem cuttings of 60 – 120 cm
Plains : 2.0 to 2.5 m X 1.2 – 1.5 m
Hills : 1.5 x 1.5 m
Mulch the vine with pruned vegetation 2 – 3 times in a year.
1.Pest-
Leaf eating beetles, Feeding bugs and Caterpillars
Management-
Spraying quinolphos 0.05 %.
1.Nitrogen
Deficiency Symptoms :
Corrective Measure :
2.Phosphorus
Deficiency Symptoms :
Corrective Measure:
3.Potassium
Deficiency Symptoms :
Corrective Measure:
Diseases
1 Fusarium wilt –
Symptoms –
Infection starts in the axil of the leaf and spread to nodal region resulting in rot.
Management-
Spraying and drenching of 0.1 % Carbendazim.
Addition of organics also reduces the intensity of the disease.
2.Phytophthora rot
Symptoms-
It causes rotting of beans, leaves and stems.
Management
Spraying Bordeaux mixture 1 % or soil drenching with Copper oxychloride 0.2 %
3.Sclerotium rot
Symptoms-
It occurs in root tips and later extends to whole root system followed by yellowing and wilting of vines.
Management-
Soil drenching of Carbendazim 0.1 %
4.Shoot tip rot and Sclerotium rot
Management-
Soil drenching of Carbendazim 0.1 %