# Selection Celebration-- share photos of your bugs, molds, blight, and slugs
**URL:** https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/selection-celebration-share-photos-of-your-bugs-molds-blight-and-slugs/538
**Category:** General Discussions
**Tags:** rebel-gardener, inspiration, pests-and-disease, stress-selection
**Created:** [January 10, 2023, 5:13pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/selection-celebration-share-photos-of-your-bugs-molds-blight-and-slugs/538 "2023-01-10T17:13:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 17
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### Author:  [@julia.dakin](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/julia.dakin)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2023, 5:13pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/selection-celebration-share-photos-of-your-bugs-molds-blight-and-slugs/538/1 "2023-01-10T17:13:40Z")
How did the the bugs and diseases teach your plants how to be strong in during the past growing season?
Was it hard to watch it happen without saving every plant?
I’m working on a few ppt slides and getting a bit tired of my own photos…
Extra special would be photos that show healthy and susceptible plants of the same species in the same photo.
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### Author:  [@hollyhock](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/hollyhock)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2023, 12:09am UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/selection-celebration-share-photos-of-your-bugs-molds-blight-and-slugs/538/2 "2023-01-11T00:09:57Z")
In my cabbage rows if a plant died I would replace it with a miniature marigold plant. As the season progressed I noticed the cabbages with marigolds near them did not have as many butterfly larva on them. Of course I had 150 cabbages so they could avoid the marigolds. I didn’t take pictures. I’m planning to really test it this year. So I’ll let you know.
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### Author:  [@H.B](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/H.B)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2023, 7:52pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/selection-celebration-share-photos-of-your-bugs-molds-blight-and-slugs/538/3 "2023-01-22T19:52:52Z")
I don’t have a ton to say without thinking this over because til now I don’t keep good documentation. I’m also new to thinking about gardening in this way, and in the great scheme of things new to gardening. But I’d like to see more on this thread. I’m sure many growers here aren’t trying to actively manage pests.
We’ve had at least one tunneling critter in the garden at least two seasons now, despite barriers intended to keep them out. Seems likely based on what they’ve done and the size of the tunnels that they are voles or vole-adjacent. Moles are another good possibility - - our property and the surrounding land is full of them, but they don’t eat plants.
The tunneling, root-nibbling, and of late even leaf-nibbling (another critter?) means that these conditions may have selected for any of the following:
- resiliency to [root] damage
- impalability to varmints at one or more stages of growth
- shallow spreading roots over deep ones (less probability of growing into a tunnel)
- quickly growing, aggressive roots that may grow deeply, that the varmints dislike enough to tunnel around. Mustard did well this past season. Wish I had more use for horseradish…
We also have a lot of fungus in the garden and on the property. I say this because we get so many mushrooms, and there’s visible hyphae when looking at disturbed soil in the garden. This means plants that aren’t resistant to these kinds of pathogens, regardless of the nature of that resistance, don’t make the cut. There are gardeners who would think I’m nuts for not solarizing my soil to deal with our fungus problem. I think they are are nuts. We’ll have to agree to disagree 🙂
We’ve also gone three seasons on the same original inputs and no cover.
We may be selecting for:
- fungal resilience/tolerance
- ability to form mycorrhizal associations to get nutrients needed for growth
I don’t really understand much about how plants talk or think, let alone talk to fungus, but I want the ones that think “Oh hey friends! Want some root juice? I make it myself” 😁, not “Who are you?! No, stay back! Get away!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOooooo\_\_\_\_\_…” 😵
As far as non-intervention with ailing plants is concerned, I’ve found watching plants sicken and die to be quite valuable. It’s helped me get much better at reading plant cues, reasoning about their possible and probable next steps in life, and to learn a teensy bit about teasing out a plant’s story from the story of the system it’s participating in.
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### Author:  [@H.B](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/H.B)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2023, 7:56pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/selection-celebration-share-photos-of-your-bugs-molds-blight-and-slugs/538/4 "2023-01-22T19:56:23Z")
Oh, I don’t have any photos, sorry 🙏
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### Author:  [@clweeks](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/clweeks)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2023, 10:44am UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/selection-celebration-share-photos-of-your-bugs-molds-blight-and-slugs/538/5 "2023-01-23T10:44:37Z")
I had some CPB this year.
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### Author:  [@julia.dakin](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/julia.dakin)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2024, 1:45pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/selection-celebration-share-photos-of-your-bugs-molds-blight-and-slugs/538/6 "2024-03-20T13:45:14Z")
I love photos showing a stressed plant next to happy ones.
What are yours?
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### Author:  [@julia.dakin](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/julia.dakin)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2024, 8:33pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/selection-celebration-share-photos-of-your-bugs-molds-blight-and-slugs/538/7 "2024-03-20T20:33:39Z")
One of these might have nitrogen fixing bacterial colonies on it’s leaves. Per Dr White.
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### Author:  [@Hugo](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/Hugo)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2024, 8:07am UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/selection-celebration-share-photos-of-your-bugs-molds-blight-and-slugs/538/8 "2024-03-27T08:07:48Z")
No time for a photo now. But i made an observation.
A kale invested by aphids had dropped it’s formerly formidable erect flowerstem to soil hight close to another much less infested kale blooming and towering proudly over it.
The kale that was infested was like asking for pollen to drop down onto the bottom one.
Surely i’m imagining things.
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### Author:  [@julia.dakin](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/julia.dakin)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2024, 4:38pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/selection-celebration-share-photos-of-your-bugs-molds-blight-and-slugs/538/9 "2024-03-31T16:38:39Z")
Maybe you’re not imagining… plants can choose which pollen grains to accept so it’s only a natural next step I suppose that they could change location. Looking forward to the photo. For our future book!
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### Author:  [@Hugo](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/Hugo)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2024, 6:12pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/selection-celebration-share-photos-of-your-bugs-molds-blight-and-slugs/538/10 "2024-04-01T18:12:28Z")
Sorry Julia I’d have to do better for the book than phonesnapshot. But i’ll be on the lookout for better examples.
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### Author:  [@Richard](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/Richard)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2024, 6:33pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/selection-celebration-share-photos-of-your-bugs-molds-blight-and-slugs/538/11 "2024-04-01T18:33:50Z")
I got some yellow mochatas seedlings…
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### Author:  [@julia.dakin](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/julia.dakin)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2024, 2:12pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/selection-celebration-share-photos-of-your-bugs-molds-blight-and-slugs/538/12 "2024-04-02T14:12:29Z")
Here are some photos by Marcos Cortez Bacilio (creator of the Center of Origin course) in Guerrero.
Not sure if this is relevant to this thread but cool photo!
The photos below are of the giant storm that destroyed parts of Acapulco in October. Lots of destruction but they did harvest some corn from the milpas.
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### Author:  [@Wendy](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/Wendy)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2024, 2:12pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/selection-celebration-share-photos-of-your-bugs-molds-blight-and-slugs/538/13 "2024-04-03T14:12:28Z")
I took this picture a few years ago. Stinkbug eating a cabbage moth larva.
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### Author:  [@markwkidd](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/markwkidd)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2024, 1:40pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/selection-celebration-share-photos-of-your-bugs-molds-blight-and-slugs/538/14 "2024-08-29T13:40:38Z")
Ants farming aphids on okra
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### Author:  [@jens](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/jens)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2024, 3:09pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/selection-celebration-share-photos-of-your-bugs-molds-blight-and-slugs/538/15 "2024-09-08T15:09:16Z")
Not really sure what this is. Anyone have thoughts?
Artichokes this year really weren’t happy. This is what most of them look like. I planted three rows of them in this bed and they mostly all decided to die.
These ones decided to sprout later this season for whatever reason. Maybe the cooler weather?
With nights getting into the 40s already, I doubt they’re going to enjoy themselves much longer…
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### Author:  [@Hugo](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/Hugo)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2024, 5:37am UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/selection-celebration-share-photos-of-your-bugs-molds-blight-and-slugs/538/16 "2024-09-09T05:37:45Z")
Been trying artichokes for years, i got one strain now that looks promising, but nothing like cardoons, their wilder predecessor. There are some great strains about, people say the flowers aren’t like artichokes, but someone who’s from mediteranean said they taste great. Perfect candidate for breeding program i’d say.
They’re back every year, fifth year now, even moved them, devided them and everything, giant leaves, cold hardy till -10 c= -14 f at least. And something tells me the stump wouldn’t mind worse, the above part might die off and pop back up come spring
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### Author:  [@jens](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/jens)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2024, 11:11am UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/selection-celebration-share-photos-of-your-bugs-molds-blight-and-slugs/538/17 "2024-09-09T11:11:51Z")
I remember seeing the cardoons in your garden tour and have been curious about growing them ever since. I haven’t seen any seeds for them yet here in the US, but might make a bigger effort to find some. 🤔