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- From: "Bill Shoemaker" <wshoemak AT inil.com>
- To: "Steve Sando" <steve AT mrlucky.com>, "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] blossom end rot
- Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 11:08:40 -0500
I've seen the same thing. Some varieties are more prone to BER. Probably has
to do with how efficient they are at transpiring water and transporting
calcium within the xylem (plumbing).
Bill Shoemaker
Sr Research Specialist, Food Crops
Univ of Illinois - St Charles Hort Research Center
>I've never had it except for San Marzano plum tomotoes! All of them had it.
>And all the toms (about 25 varieties) were grown under the same conditions.
>So I wonder how much of it is in the plants, too. Maybe these plums (my
>Sarnos were fine) are suseptible to BER.
>
>Steve
>www.ranchogordo.com
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Re: [Market-farming] Planting tiny seeds
, (continued)
- Re: [Market-farming] Planting tiny seeds, Mike Steinberg, 05/09/2003
- RE: [Market-farming] Planting tiny seeds, Marie Kamphefner, 05/09/2003
- RE: [Market-farming] Planting tiny seeds, Mike Steinberg, 05/09/2003
- [Market-farming] Trellising tomatoes and BER, Tom at Limerock, 05/11/2003
- Re: [Market-farming] Trellising tomatoes and BER, Steve Sando, 05/11/2003
- RE: [Market-farming] Trellising tomatoes and BER, Marie Kamphefner, 05/11/2003
- [Market-farming] blossom end rot, Alliums, 05/09/2003
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