If you're growing strawberries and you've dealt with what's known as the

gray mold of death, also known as the Petritus fruit rot or flower rot, then

you know how discouraging it is because you have this nice,

juicy, ripe strawberry that really quickly gets covered by what looks like a gray dust

and all of the nutrients all that beautiful

beautiful strawberry flavor just gets completely sucked out of that

fruit and very quickly it can take over a strawberry patch and so today we're

going to talk about Betritus Rot, which is just quite a killer. It's just really quite a discouraging thing to encounter. And so let's talk about it. Let's figure out how to deal with it. They can be very difficult because it can sort of lie latent in your strawberries and then once it's ready, it just comes out and destroys the fruit.

So a fruit that is fully ripe is the one

that is the most susceptible.

And so you really want to make sure, is the case in general is to go out and

harvest your strawberries. Pick those bad boys and eat them. What is it going to look like?

If you can see it, you can prevent it, right? And so how does it actually

look? Well, the flowers are going to have these brown sort of lesions on their petals and the

central part around the flower that eventually becomes the fruit.

So you can notice it on the actual flower.

On a strawberry fruit, it's going to show up at the flower end,

not the tip.

It's going to start at the flower end,

and there'll be this light brown decay and then eventually

it's going to get that gray dust and it kind of comes down from the flower end all the way

over to the tip. And so but but tritis is a crazy fungus.

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