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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.
Citrus Melanose
Tiny dark brown specks are scattered over fruit and leaves, sometimes clustering into tear-streaks or a sandpaper texture. Heavy infection makes the rind rough and badly cuts appearance value.
General description; not specific to this plant.
How to identify and treat: Citrus MelanoseSooty Mold
A thin black sooty mold spreads over the upper leaf surface, shoots and fruit. It does not invade the tissue itself, but it blocks photosynthesis and badly spoils appearance.
General description; not specific to this plant.
How to identify and treat: Sooty MoldLonghorn Beetles
Sawdust-like frass is pushed out at the trunk base or branch crotches. The wood is hollowed out, the tree loses vigor, and the trunk may snap in strong wind.
General description; not specific to this plant.
How to identify and treat: Longhorn BeetlesOther possible causes
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- Citrus Leafminer — Silvery winding mines run through newly expanded young leaves, which crinkle and roll inwa…
- Leafrollers — Leaves are webbed into tubes or folded in half, with a green or brown caterpillar inside. …
- Stink Bugs — Small feeding punctures on fruit become sunken or turn spongy and discolored. On legumes t…
- Fruit Borers — Small entry holes with gummy exudate and frass appear on the fruit surface. On new shoots …
- Bacterial Spot — Small water-soaked spots appear on the leaves, later turning brown with yellowing around t…
- Bacterial Canker — Leaf margins scorch and die back, and splitting the stem reveals browned vascular tissue. …
- Gray Mold — Water-soaked brown lesions form on flowers, fruit and leaves, densely covered by a fuzzy g…
- 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…
- Black Spot — On roses, dark brown lesions with radiating edges form on the leaves, which yellow around …
- Southern Blight — The stem rots at soil level and white silky mycelium spreads over the crown and the surrou…
- 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 satsuma mandarin 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.