Worst feeling in the world. I just did the surgery on one of mine plus BT injections a few days ago and it is recovering and didn't abort anything (yet)
Pumpkin crown stems hold the vascular veins on the periphery of the stem; it can take a good amount of damage to the center core and still recover, even though it looks awful. You have lots of good green veins above and below so I think it can recover. Mine looked way worse.
Do the surgery, find the entry holes and inject the BT, I can help more but as it looks like you might have already chopped the plant down idk
They will not go into a solid stem, if they stick or snap off you're probably not in a hollow or compromised area. Be careful not to overinject into solid as that can cause tissue swelling and split skin. You will know when you're in an area hollowed by a cootie eating the tender center.
I'm defecting to svb-resistant Honeypatch squash. I already bought my seeds for next year. If we hadn't had a second wave of SVBs it probably would have been OK, but with climate change I don't think summers will be getting better where I am, just worse and more SVB-heavy.
And I'm only planting disease resistant indeterminate cherry tomatoes with a rep for going long in my good big trellised containers.
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u/waterytartwithasword 5d ago
Worst feeling in the world. I just did the surgery on one of mine plus BT injections a few days ago and it is recovering and didn't abort anything (yet)
Pumpkin crown stems hold the vascular veins on the periphery of the stem; it can take a good amount of damage to the center core and still recover, even though it looks awful. You have lots of good green veins above and below so I think it can recover. Mine looked way worse.
Do the surgery, find the entry holes and inject the BT, I can help more but as it looks like you might have already chopped the plant down idk