soft brown rot of aubergine

[Ian in Cumbria]

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

[Nature's Babe]

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.

[Ian in Cumbria]

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

[Nature's Babe]

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

[Gerry]

Aren't we missing Johnboy and Alan.