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Lloydminster/AB

I have had the same thing happen to fruit on side vines. I think that the side vine fruit does not get enough photosynthate supplied because of a good growing fruit somewhere else on the plant. The plant has chosen which fruit will be the one. Perhaps splits of all types are caused by lack of supply, not to just the fruit in general but to parts of the fruit. For example maybe blossom splits occur because it is the area to recieve it's nutrient supply last,the rest of the fruit outgrowing it due to higher temps and better supply in other regions of the fruit. May be that is why shading works. oops starting to ramble. LOL


waiting for spring

Don

1/19/2005 11:41:57 AM

C N Y

good ramble!
do it again tomorrow!
i am not kidding---there is a great deal
of, we'll say logic, in your rant! eric

1/19/2005 6:03:23 PM

Decatur, IL

From experience, I believe some stem splits and splits in the fruit can be caused by types of fungal rots.
Charlie

1/19/2005 10:13:14 PM

Menomonie, WI ([email protected])

Check out the size of the slug on that one pumpkin.

1/20/2005 9:13:43 AM

Oakland, CA, USA

That's nothing Shannon, out here in the Bay Area (especially in the nearby Santa Cruz Mts.) we have Banana slugs and Leopard slugs (I think they're called Leopard slugs...). Fortunately, you don't see either in the garden much, because banana slugs are known to grow at least as long as your hand (from wrist to finger-tip!) and the Leopard slugs (saw one when I was a child, and I'm sort of a slug-phobic, so it left an impressionn) get longer and much fatter! Yeesh! It's just the Universe messing with me that my college's mascot was the Banana Slug. -Erin (recovering vermi/sluggo/snailophobe)

1/20/2005 12:56:13 PM