Dino Eggs

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by barkeater

Black spot? Internal BER?

Absolutely Bark, you beat me to it.

Not many folks realize that there even is something called internal BER being familiar only with the exterior lesions at the blossom end. Usually the lack of Ca++ which characterizes external BER occurs at the blossom end but sometimes, as in this case, it occurs inside the fruit and there's no indication from the outside of that at all.

Whether it will occur on other fruits of Dino is up for grabs, so keep us posted.

[duajones]

I have had 4 fruit from one of the two plants show external BER. The two plants are in different areas. The one that showed the external BER is in somewhat of a new bed.
The other is in a bed that I first amended in 2006 and have never had any BER problems in that particular bed. Of course I have always had soaker hoses under the mulch and it has worked well for me.
I sliced a fruit from that bed today and while it wasnt fully ripe, it was still partially hollow. 6 fruit from that bed now with no internal black spots but all still somewhat hollow.
No other plants have shown any sign of either internal or external BER. It is just weird and also a shame as these two plants are absolutely loaded.

Fruit that is still green and unripe doesnt feel firm like most fruit do, they give some when pressed.