- Author: Mark Bolda
Published on: April 5, 2019
While it's pretty common for Californians to set aside their complaints about rainy weather because we need the water, the flip side for the Central Coast strawberry industry is ruined fruit and plant problems.
I've been seeing a number of fields with the problem of Photo 1 below. Plants are barely growing, the foliage is discolored and the overall aspect is not great.
It's best to take a careful, step by step approach to these problems. Splitting open a crown of one of the plants from the field shown in the first photo shows no discoloration common to many soil diseases (and in this case diagnostic testing confirmed that). The discoloration of the foliage is consistent with a lack of nutrition,...
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