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.
Southern Blight
The stem rots at soil level and white silky mycelium spreads over the crown and the surrounding soil surface. Brown sclerotia the size of rapeseed then form and the plant wilts and dies rapidly.
General description; not specific to this plant.
How to identify and treat: Southern BlightRing 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 RotRoot Rot
Fine roots rot brown to blackish brown, growth stops and the lower leaves yellow. The plant wilts easily in the daytime and eventually dies outright.
General description; not specific to this plant.
How to identify and treat: Root RotOther possible causes
The three above are the causes on record for this symptom.
Other symptoms on this plant
What other growers did about it
A page like this one can tell you what sedum 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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