{"id":19698,"date":"2020-06-16T22:44:28","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T02:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=19698"},"modified":"2020-06-16T22:44:30","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T02:44:30","slug":"another-impact-of-unusual-spring-weather-on-blueberries-fruit-rot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2020\/06\/another-impact-of-unusual-spring-weather-on-blueberries-fruit-rot\/","title":{"rendered":"Another impact of unusual spring weather on blueberries: Fruit rot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A couple of weeks ago I posted a link to the UGA Blueberry Blog describing the impact of the unusual weather this spring on flies in blueberries. This week they posted another story which showed a different impact on the berries&#8211;fungal diseases such as fruit rot. The berries have also suffered from splits which have allowed the fungal diseases to flourish. You can read more <a href=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/blueberry\/2020\/06\/fruit-splits-and-yeast-rot-in-blueberries\/?utm_source=UGA+Blueberry+Blog&amp;utm_campaign=637d78ec80-Blueberry_Newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_e2305cbc39-637d78ec80-339372349\">here<\/a> and read about how excess rainfall can cause the fruit skins to split at <a href=\"https:\/\/msfruitextension.wordpress.com\/2015\/06\/03\/fruit-splitting-in-blueberries\/\">https:\/\/msfruitextension.wordpress.com\/2015\/06\/03\/fruit-splitting-in-blueberries\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"342\" height=\"337\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2020\/06\/split-blueberry.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19699\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2020\/06\/split-blueberry.jpg 342w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2020\/06\/split-blueberry-300x296.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 342px) 100vw, 342px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago I posted a link to the UGA Blueberry Blog describing the impact of the unusual weather this spring on flies in blueberries. This week they posted another story which showed a different impact on the berries&#8211;fungal diseases such as fruit rot. The berries have also suffered from splits which have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":19699,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-fruit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19700,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19698\/revisions\/19700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}