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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.
Gray Mold
Water-soaked brown lesions form on flowers, fruit and leaves, densely covered by a fuzzy gray mold. Fruit rots and drops, and decay continues in storage after harvest.
How to identify and treat: Gray MoldSlugs
Irregular holes are chewed in leaves and fruit with glistening slime trails nearby. By day they hide under pots and bricks or in dead leaves at the base of the plant.
How to identify and treat: SlugsPowdery Mildew
White patches appear scattered on the upper leaf surface at first, then the whole leaf is coated in a white powder. Leaves later yellow, brown and die back, and reduced photosynthesis cuts growth and yield.
How to identify and treat: Powdery MildewOther possible causes
- Root Rot — Fine roots rot brown to blackish brown, growth stops and the lower leaves yellow. The plan…
- 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…
- Late Blight — Dark green water-soaked lesions appear on the leaves and expand quickly into brown dead ti…
- 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…
- Ring Rot — The bark of branches and trunk becomes rough and warty, serving as the inoculum source. Fr…
- 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 strawberry 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.