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["Ernest Plutko" <ernestplutko@wiktel.com>]

Strawberries with soft, whitish and watery blotches in my experience
are rotting.

---- Original Message ----
From: billg@inebraska.com
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: RE: [NAFEX] Strawberry sun scald or fungus?
Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 08:05:45 -0500

>As usual, when picking strawberries yesterday, I came across some
>with a 
>soft, whitish, watery blotch on the berry. It's usually, but not
>always, 
>on a ripe berry. I've always thought that was sun scald, but... 
>something about it yesterday made me wonder about that. IS it just
>sun 
>scald, or is it a disease or a fungus of some type? Some of the
>berries 
>are pretty well covered by it.
>
>I've never sprayed my strawberry patch with a fungicide (with
>anything, 
>actually), because I don't ever see leaf spots. The biggest problem
>my 
>strawberries usually have is not getting enough water. But I've run
>the 
>sprinkler on them a few times recently, because it's been so very dry
>
>here lately (usually, I don't water them until after the strawberry 
>season is over), so maybe that's causing some fungal problems. 
>Yesterday, I did find more of these problems than usual.
>
>So, anyone know what causes this?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Bill
>Lincoln, NE (zone 5)
>
>-- 
>We must conduct research and then accept the results. If they don't 
>stand up to experimentation, Buddha's own words must be rejected. - 
>Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
>
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