{"id":696,"date":"2021-06-25T12:29:52","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T16:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/vegpath\/?p=696"},"modified":"2021-06-25T12:29:53","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T16:29:53","slug":"pre-and-post-harvest-considerations-for-phytophthora-fruit-rot-control-in-watermelon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/vegpath\/2021\/06\/pre-and-post-harvest-considerations-for-phytophthora-fruit-rot-control-in-watermelon\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre- and post-harvest considerations for Phytophthora fruit rot control in watermelon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Based on my research trials over the years I am recommending couple of important pre-and post-harvest evaluation steps to reduce post-harvest losses due to this pathogen:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Please avoid picking melons from low-spots in your field.<\/li><li>Please pick your healthy looking fields first followed by problematic fields<\/li><li>Please pay attention to any water-soaked spots on fruit while picking and kindly discard them.<\/li><li>After picking, carefully grade melons again for any water-soaked spots (can be a tiny as a dime).<\/li><li>After grading, keep the melons for 48h to 72h under the shed. Based on our observations, we would see symptoms with 48-72h of incubation.<\/li><li>After 48h to 72 h, please re-grade your melons for Pcap symptoms before shipping. These practices will help in reducing post-harvest losses due to Pcap.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based on my research trials over the years I am recommending couple of important pre-and post-harvest evaluation steps to reduce post-harvest losses due to this pathogen: Please avoid picking melons from low-spots in your field. Please pick your healthy looking fields first followed by problematic fields Please pay attention to any water-soaked spots on fruit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":186,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/vegpath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/vegpath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/vegpath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/vegpath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/186"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/vegpath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/vegpath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":697,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/vegpath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions\/697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/vegpath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/vegpath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/vegpath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}