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- From: "Bill Shoemaker" <wshoemak AT inil.com>
- To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Blackberry Problem
- Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 08:45:05 -0500
Do the plants still look healthy despite the fruit failure? If so, you may be lacking pollenizers (bees). If the flowers are not properly pollinated, they will look fine briefly, then abort. The fungal diseases noted in the Texas A&M publication are foliar and cane diseases. They shouldn't affect the flowers. The primary bloom fungal disease on most small fruits is grey mold (Botrytis). While it could be grey mold, it would probably only affect the crop in rainy weather, it would not ruin the whole crop, and it would probably be worse on one variety than the others. You would also see grey fuzzy fungal growth on the fruit, like you see on berries in supermarkets at times.
My guess is you aren't having bees visit the flowers. It should be busier than rush hour with bees pollinating at flowering.
Bill Shoemaker, Sr Research Specialist, Food Crops
University of Illinois - St Charles Horticulture Research Center
www.nres.uiuc.edu/faculty/directory/shoemaker_wh.html
----- Original Message ----- From: "TxBeeFarmer" <TxBeeFarmer AT HotPop.com>
To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 7:40 AM
Subject: [Market-farming] Blackberry Problem
I've brought this up before, but never really found an answer. Maybe
someone will know this time.
I have three kinds of thornless blackberries. They grow great and look
great, but no berries, or at least very few. They bloom in great numbers,
but after the blooms, what look like immature berries, just dry up and never
mature. What could be happening?
Thanks
TxBeeFarmer (Mark)
West Texas Zone 7b
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Re: [Market-farming] Starting Peppers from Seed
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Re: [Market-farming] Starting Peppers from Seed,
Bill Bradshaw, 05/27/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Starting Peppers from Seed,
Allan Balliett, 05/28/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Starting Peppers from Seed,
Sharon and Steve, 05/28/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Starting Peppers from Seed,
TxBeeFarmer, 05/29/2008
- Re: [Market-farming] Starting Peppers from Seed, Shawnee Flowerfarmer, 05/29/2008
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[Market-farming] Blackberry Problem,
TxBeeFarmer, 05/29/2008
- Re: [Market-farming] Blackberry Problem, Road's End Farm, 05/29/2008
- Re: [Market-farming] Blackberry Problem, Danielle Conger, 05/29/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Blackberry Problem,
Glen Eco Farm, 05/29/2008
- Re: [Market-farming] Blackberry Problem, TxBeeFarmer, 05/29/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Blackberry Problem,
Bill Shoemaker, 05/29/2008
- Re: [Market-farming] Blackberry Problem, TxBeeFarmer, 05/29/2008
- Re: [Market-farming] Blackberry Problem, Richard Robinson, 05/29/2008
- Re: [Market-farming] Blackberry Problem, lucy Owsley, 05/29/2008
- Re: [Market-farming] Blackberry Problem, Joyce Paski, 05/29/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Starting Peppers from Seed,
TxBeeFarmer, 05/29/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Starting Peppers from Seed,
Sharon and Steve, 05/28/2008
- Re: [Market-farming] Starting Peppers from Seed, Kate Halstead, 05/28/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Starting Peppers from Seed,
Bill Shoemaker, 05/28/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Starting Peppers from Seed,
Richard Stewart, 05/28/2008
- Re: [Market-farming] Starting Peppers from Seed, Bill Shoemaker, 05/28/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Starting Peppers from Seed,
Richard Stewart, 05/28/2008
- Re: [Market-farming] Starting Peppers from Seed, Bobbett, 05/28/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Starting Peppers from Seed,
Allan Balliett, 05/28/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Starting Peppers from Seed,
Bill Bradshaw, 05/27/2008
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