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  • From: "gutierrez-lagatta" <gutierrez-lagatta AT home.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: BER
  • Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 07:38:29 -0500


Marcie and Bill, if we REALLY want to get technical I believe that BER
is caused by a lack of calcium UPTAKE, not a lack of calcium. There
may be adequate calcium in the soil or in the case of hydroponics,
which is how I grow, in the nutrient solution. BUT, if the pH is off
or the ratios among critical nutrients is out of balance, the plants
will not be able to absorb the available calcium.

> Bill, I hate to disagree with an extensionist but it won't be the
> first time and, certainly, not the last. Blossom End Rot is a
> physiological problem caused by a lack of calcium.




  • BER, gutierrez-lagatta, 08/08/2001
    • <Possible follow-up(s)>
    • Re: BER, Bill Shoemaker, 08/08/2001

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