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  • From: "Bill Shoemaker" <wshoemak AT inil.com>
  • To: "market farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: zucchini
  • Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 12:50:35 -0500


BER can occur on zucchini. Same problem. Calcium not reaching rapidly
developing tissue at the end of the fruit. Calcium is a cell-wall
constituent. Without it the cell walls don't develop properly and the tissue
breaks down.

But there is also a disease called choanephera rot that infect the blossom
end of summer squash (including zucchini). Rather than a dry, flat spot with
a black fungus, this disease will turn the end of the fruit very mushy with
a heavy, fluffy growth of a gray fungus. Putting a mulch, especially an
organic mulch like wheat straw, underneath the plant will reduce incidence
of this disease.

Bill Shoemaker
Sr Research Specialist, Food Crops
Univ of Illinois - St Charles Hort Research Center



>So is blossom end rot on zucchini calcium related as well? I have a
>problem with this on my zucchini.
>Phyl
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