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  • From: "Bill Shoemaker" <wshoemak AT inil.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] zucchini blossom drop
  • Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 10:04:07 -0500

Are you seeing a gray fuzzy growth at the base of the female flower? If so, you may be suffering from Choenephora Rot, which often happens in wet, cluody conditions, particularly if the flower is near or touching the soil. Straw mulch can help. Warm, dry weather would help too. Poor pollination can influence this problem too so make sure bees are visiting the flowers often.
 
Bill Shoemaker
Sr Research Specialist, Food Crops
Univ of Illinois - St Charles Hort Research Center
About half my zucchini blossoms are dropping before they have a chance to develop fruit. Is this due to a critter, all the wet, cloudy weather or something else? I've never had it happen to this extend before. Any help would be appreciated.

Dave in the Mountain State



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