What's up everyone? Welcome back to the show. Today we're talking about a fuzzy weird gray mold and it's called

Betritus cinerea also known as the noble rot also known as gray Mold, Ghost Spot Ash Mold, or Botritus Bunch Rot.

It is apparently known by many different names, but it can turn your fruit into mush, it can wreak havoc on your plants

we're talking about how to combat this deadly disease today so first of all what is it?

It is a gray fungal mold. It grows on more than 200

different species of plants. It is a massive, massive financial loss

worldwide. Causes crop losses of 10 billion to 100 billion worldwide every single year.

It is the most common pathogen responsible for the post harvest after you take a plant off of the tree,

decay of fruits and vegetables.

So most of the time it's bad.

However, to a small handful of people,

it can be quite useful.

Winemakers, they will use it.

They produce late season grapes. They have

discovered that the mold causes the sugars in their grapes to become

concentrated and this results in a much more concentrated flavor to the

finished wine, which is why to winemakers it is called the noble

rot everyone else hates it winemakers are somewhat partial to it okay so what's the life

cycle of Botrittis cinera?

The plant disease overwinter's in plants.

It's sort of overwinters in this thing called

Sclerotia.

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