Water Soaking of Strawberry Fruit

Jun 16, 2015

Water Soaking of Strawberry Fruit

Jun 16, 2015

Found this little number the other day when picking one of my trial plots (yes, my job requires that I pick fruit; fortunately I never lack for help from my Research Assistant and the grower).  The white tip of the fruit depicted in the picture below was submerged in water pooled in a dimple of the bed plastic.

Watersoaking of strawberry can take on many appearances, oftentimes a soggy and lighter colored area of the fruit. Always comes from extended contact with free water, underlining the value of keeping the plastic on top of the bed very flat and not amenable to pooling water from rain, dew and leaking lines.

 


By Mark Bolda
Author - Farm Advisor, Strawberries & Caneberries

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