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[Toni Pralle <toni.pralle@gmail.com>]

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

>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.
>

 

 

My first guess is rotting from watering. I wonder if they are getting too wet and staying wet too long?? Is there enough air circulation among the plants? You said it's been dry but can they drain or are they wet?

-- 
Toni in zone 4 Iowa USA
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