Re: ROT

From: Linda Mann <lmann@icx.net>

Leslie Liddiard Goldsboro, NC wrote:
> I hope someone has an answer for this one.  I know that I'm not the only
> one experiencing rot in my TB's here in the eastern U.S.  This has been
> occurring a great deal this Summer and Fall.  More so than any year that I
> can remember.  Can anyone tell me why this might be happening or are we
> just getting overly lucky this year?  

Leslie, I don't know why, tho I can probably come up with some wild
explanation, but I have noticed that summer rot fluorishes when the
weather is alternating between heat and drought and deluges like it has
been especially prone to do this summer.  Things will be growing fine in
the drought, maybe with a little handwatering, then a 1 to 2 inch
rainfall will bring on a major rot outbreak.  Also, I suspect we have
seen a lot more tendency to rot from injury left over from plants
damaged and weakened by the spring freeze cycles that damaged so many
plants.  And the hotter drier weather adds stress.

It's been an average year for me once we got past the spring - very
little summer rot, but my garden conditions are pretty extreme and the
weaklings are long gone.

What's happened down in Texas now that the drought is over?

Linda Mann


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