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.
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 SpotRing Rot
The bark of branches and trunk becomes rough and warty, serving as the inoculum source. Fruit develops round brown lesions that soften and rot in concentric rings.
General description; not specific to this plant.
How to identify and treat: Ring RotBacterial Canker
Leaf margins scorch and die back, and splitting the stem reveals browned vascular tissue. Scabby, bird's-eye lesions form on fruit and shoots.
General description; not specific to this plant.
How to identify and treat: Bacterial CankerOther possible causes
- 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…
- Southern Blight — The stem rots at soil level and white silky mycelium spreads over the crown and the surrou…
- Citrus Melanose — Tiny dark brown specks are scattered over fruit and leaves, sometimes clustering into tear…
- Brown Rot — Blossoms brown and die, and round brown lesions on fruit expand rapidly. Grayish white pow…
- 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 japanese pear 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.
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