sooby said:Robyn, why do you think it (the dead leaves/canes) doesn't look like borers?
Well, in my (squash) experience with borers, you would see wilty *healthy* leaves and stems. The whole plant looks like it is struggling. Granted, the few actually dead ones could've been hit with borers too, you know? But pulling a few canes off an otherwise healthy raspberry bush is not a big deal.
When I'd encounter a vine borer, you'd see a thriving plant with localized wilt. This is a suffering plant overall.
BTW - my mom is growing one of my ground cherry seedlings at her house and for some weird reason, at her house in her dirt, the thing grew straight up like a freaking tomato plant and didn't branch all out like it does at my house. Also, speaking of vine borer, one of the two split into two main lead branches and this past weekend, everything in one of the two lead branches got wilty and sad, while the entire rest of the plant was thriving, green, happy. I very nearly cut open the vine to see what was there but I swear there had to be a borer in there. I didn't know they could hit ground cherries!
