Strawberries and Caneberries

A couple of weeks ago I got a call from a grower and PCA concerning planting stock that had unusually large growths on the roots (pictured below) which are really typical of crown gall. Crown gall is caused by a bacterium which enters the plant through wounds.

As the year winds down, it's still busy over here as we are placing and maintaining trials.

Thanks to the education group of the California Strawberry Commission, we all have available to us a recording of the October Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. fragariae Zoom call. This includes information on the biology, epidemiology and control of this major pathogen in strawberry.

One can see here from the picture kindly provided by Doug Thomas of Crown Nursery that the cold of late is having an effect.

Thanks to Doug Thomas of Crown Nursery, I'm able to see how the plants are changing as the weather cools up at MacDoel. This is a picture of Monterey close to the field of my original post.