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- 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.
Thrips
Silvery white to brown scarring spreads over leaf and fruit surfaces. Flowers discolor and drop, and fruit is left with keloid-like scar tissue.
How to identify and treat: ThripsStone Fruit Disorder of Eggplant
Fruit is hard, loses its gloss and stops at a small size without sizing up. Cut it open and almost no seed has formed.
How to identify and treat: Stone Fruit Disorder of EggplantTomato Spotted Wilt
Brown necrotic spots and ring patterns appear on the leaves and the growing tips shrivel and darken. Fruit develops concentric yellow rings that make it unmarketable.
How to identify and treat: Tomato Spotted WiltOther possible causes
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- Gray Mold — Water-soaked brown lesions form on flowers, fruit and leaves, densely covered by a fuzzy g…
- Tobacco Cutworm — Many larvae gather on the leaf underside and graze the tissue away, leaving white skeleton…
- Root-knot Nematode — The plant wilts in the daytime and does not recover with feeding or watering. Pull it up a…
- Helicoverpa Bollworms — Round holes are bored into fruit and buds, the inside eaten out and packed with frass. Rot…
- Curved Fruit — Fruit bends into a bow shape or pinches in partway so that it sizes unevenly. When curved …
- Tobacco Mosaic Virus — New leaves show a clear light-and-dark green mosaic, become wavy and stay small. Growth st…
- Sooty Mold — A thin black sooty mold spreads over the upper leaf surface, shoots and fruit. It does not…
- Sunscald — The sun-facing side of the fruit bleaches white to pale yellow, then dries into a sunken l…
- Bacterial Soft Rot — The crown or the head becomes water-soaked and soft, then collapses into a slimy mush. The…
- Bacterial Spot — Small water-soaked spots appear on the leaves, later turning brown with yellowing around t…
- Tomato Mosaic Virus — Light and dark mosaic appears on the leaves, which narrow, twist and crinkle. Fruit ripens…
- Late Blight — Dark green water-soaked lesions appear on the leaves and expand quickly into brown dead ti…
- Anthracnose — Light brown to dark brown round lesions with sharp margins form on leaves and fruit, sligh…
- Sclerotinia Rot — The crown, stem or head rots in a water-soaked way and is covered in white cottony myceliu…
- Ring Rot — The bark of branches and trunk becomes rough and warty, serving as the inoculum source. Fr…
- Citrus Melanose — Tiny dark brown specks are scattered over fruit and leaves, sometimes clustering into tear…
- Root Rot — Fine roots rot brown to blackish brown, growth stops and the lower leaves yellow. The plan…
- Root-lesion Nematode — Elongated blackish brown necrotic lesions form on the root surface and fine roots rot away…
Other symptoms on this plant
What other growers did about it
A page like this one can tell you what eggplant 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.