Disease · 73

Root Rot across the plant library

73 of the 505 plant guides in this library name root rot among their diseases. Every one is listed below, linked to its guide and grouped by the kind of plant it is, so you can see at a glance which corners of a garden it turns up in.

This is the library read down a column instead of across a row. Each plant guide names its own diseases; nobody publishes the other view — which of the plants you actually grow share one, and whether the timing they record agrees.

The 73 plants that list root rot

Grouped by plant type. Where the library attached a note to the entry — “rare”, “on seedlings”, “in wet clay” — that note is printed next to the plant, verbatim, because two plants can name the same disease and mean opposite things by it.

trees11

shrubs11

vines2

perennials19

annuals3

succulents5

houseplants22

Where it concentrates

Botanical families with more than one affected plant in the library, counted from the same 73 guides above. 10 of 73 are Lamiaceae.

Lamiaceae10 plants
Araceae8 plants
Rutaceae7 plants
Asteraceae5 plants
Asparagaceae4 plants
Ericaceae4 plants
Crassulaceae3 plants
Acanthaceae2 plants

How the library qualifies it

Every distinct note the guides attach to an entry for root rot, verbatim, with how many plants carry it. The other 37 guides list it bare, with no qualifier at all.

in wet soil×6
in wet clay×5
overwatering×5
in clay×3
if watered kindly
in clay — raised beds fix
in cold wet soil
in irrigated clay — kindness kills it
in irrigated clay — the usual death
in soggy winters
in swamp soil
in swamps
in wet winters
in winter-wet clay
on wet sites
overwatering — the main killer
Phytophthora — fatal in warm wet clay
Phytophthora — the #1 avocado death
the killer in clay
wet feet
wet winters kill more tarragon than cold

Shared timing — and where it doesn’t agree

The library records no treatment window for root rot. 37 of these 73 guides do record a spray or management program, but every one of them is about something else — a blight schedule, a curculio spray, a mildew note. None names root rot. Rather than manufacture a consensus out of unrelated entries, this page reports the absence. The individual guides carry whatever timing the library does hold.

Timing only — the label is the law

This page reports when the guides in this library say to watch for root rot and when a treatment is worth considering. It is not a recommendation to apply any product. Read and follow the product label before you spray — under federal law the label is the legal instruction, and using a pesticide against it is illegal.

Check the pre-harvest interval. Every product that’s cleared for an edible crop sets a minimum number of days between spraying and picking. Find it on the label before you spray anything you intend to eat.
Check the re-entry interval before you or anyone else works in the treated area again, and use the protective equipment the label names.
Confirm the product is registered for your crop in your state. This page groups many different crops together, and a product legal on one of them is not legal on all of them — state registrations differ too. Your state pesticide agency or local extension office can confirm both.
Rates and mixing instructions come from the label, never from us. We don’t publish them because they differ by product and formulation.

What else these plants get

Counted over the same 73 guides: the other problems most often listed on a plant that lists root rot. These are co-occurrences in the library’s own records, not a claim that one causes another.