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Apricot Fruit Cracking, Rot and Deformities: Causes & How to Fix It

The fruit of your apricot is rotting at the tip, splitting, misshapen, or hollow inside. Fruit problems are more often about water, calcium, and pollination than disease, so the fix is usually in how you grow rather than what you spray.

Check these first

  • Does the rot start at the blossom end or from a wound?
  • Was there heavy rain or uneven watering just before the fruit split?
  • What were the temperatures and pollination conditions when it flowered?

Most likely causes

From the pests and diseases recorded for this plant, the ones whose symptoms match, most serious first. Symptoms alone rarely confirm a cause, so use the linked page to check the signs and treatment.

Late Blight

Dark green water-soaked lesions appear on the leaves and expand quickly into brown dead tissue. White mold forms on the underside and at the lesion edge, and dark brown lesions spread to stems and fruit.

General description; not specific to this plant.

How to identify and treat: Late Blight

Anthracnose

Light brown to dark brown round lesions with sharp margins form on leaves and fruit, slightly sunken in the center. In wet weather salmon-pink slimy spore masses ooze out on the lesions.

General description; not specific to this plant.

How to identify and treat: Anthracnose

Black Spot

On roses, dark brown lesions with radiating edges form on the leaves, which yellow around them and drop. On pear, sooty black lesions appear on leaves, fruit and the calyx of young fruit, deforming the fruit.

General description; not specific to this plant.

How to identify and treat: Black Spot

Other possible causes

  • Ring Rot — The bark of branches and trunk becomes rough and warty, serving as the inoculum source. Fr…
  • Brown Rot — Blossoms brown and die, and round brown lesions on fruit expand rapidly. Grayish white pow…

Other symptoms on this plant

What other growers did about it

A page like this one can tell you what apricot fruit cracking, rot and deformities is and what to try. What it cannot tell you is what actually happened to someone who had it on the same plant, at the same point in the season, and what they did next.

Gadenin is a free garden journal built around that. You photograph the plant, tag what you are seeing, and the entries line up by date for each plant you grow.

  • Tag the problem and the app tells you how many other growers have logged the same thing on the same plant.
  • Growers who make their records public can be followed, so you can read what they did and how it turned out.
  • Next season your own entries come back at the same point in the year, so you check the plant before it starts.

Free on iPhone. Recording, tagging and reading public records cost nothing.

Read next

Record watering dates and rainfall alongside photos of the fruit. Cracking and blossom-end rot almost always trace back to a swing in water supply.

See what other growers did about it

Log it in the free Gadenin app and tag what you are seeing. Your photos line up by date so you can tell whether it is spreading, and you can see how many other growers have logged the same problem on the same plant, follow them and read what they did next.

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