Hello All

My Aubergines (Moneymaker) in the greenhouse were looking OK. 3 or 4 on each plant. They vary in size from 1" to 5" long. I have now lost 3 or 4 of the smaller ones because of a very soggy light brown rot at the stem end of the fruit. Any ideas?

Regards

Ian

Hi Ian. Apparently it also affects potatoes and they can be affected by irrigastion with contaminated water.I haven't experienced this, but as I am also growing aubergines I did a search, possible infection from a willd plant,


http://www.nhm.ac.uk/print-version/?p=/ ... index.html

Maybe a good idea to see irrigastion goes into the soil and not on the plant.
I recently saw a good idea for slow release of water into the soil, it was a large clear water bottle with the bottom cut off, neck end inserted into the soil, then a quarter filled with sand, this slows the percolation of water into the soil into the roots which is where it's needed.

Thanks for the reply. I water with tap water, though I have been making up feed from a butt which was new this year and looks and smells clean. There is a small amount of whitefly but nothing too much at all. I found this picture which is pretty accurate except the areas of rot are smaller and more around the stem. One which I removed came off with the stem which seemed to have "dried up".

http://www.gardenworldimages.com/Detail ... only=False

I've not seen any plants around like the ones in the link you sent so I doubt it is an infection from a wild plant.

Regards

Ian

The whitefly could be a clue, they can carry virus, perhaps chocolate spot?

Aren't we missing Johnboy and Alan.