The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Growing => Fruit => Topic started by: suziequeue on June 29, 2013, 11:00:59 am
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Some of my strawberries have got these well demarcated brown areas on their leaves. I would say it's affecting about 10% of the strawberry plants.
I have tried looking in Dr Hessayon but can't find anything similar.
Any suggestions?
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The particular leaf with the brown bits looks crinkled, as if it has a virus or greenfly. My strawbs get all sorts of stuff like that but I still get plenty of fruit :yum:
Sorry, I don't know a definitive diagnosis :D but I'm sure someone will
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I've got the same problem and don't know what it is - have been taking off the worst affected.
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Me too! Although I put it down to being burnt in the sun with no water for a few days. Good crop.
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Like Fleecewife, mine get all sorts. As long as the fruits are growing healthy I don't worry. ( maybe I should be more caring :innocent: )
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Me too! Although I put it down to being burnt in the sun with no water for a few days. Good crop.
I don't think the sun could have caused it - not around here, anyway... ;D
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No - definitely not the sun :-))
The birds are stating to show an interest so we'll be netting them this weekend. Good that they've had a good wetting before the (supposed) sun coming at the end of the week :-)
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I'm beginning to think it might be some kind of fungus - looked a bit like reddish rust on the underside of the leaves I examined today. But doesn't seem to do any harm to the fruit - so who cares? ;)
One red strawberry so far - I've put protection over them, too...
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It might be spider mite especially if there are find cobwebby bits on the underside of the leaves :-\
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Well ours have romped away over the summer and developed into big crowns. Not a huge amount of fruit but they are only year one so am hopeful for a bigger offering next year :-))