Table 3.
Mean percentage incidence of fruit rot of ripe fruit samples, collected from fourteen cranberry farms in Year 1 and fourteen cranberry farms in Year 2, at harvest and at a 3-week post-harvest storage at ambient temperature.
| Year 1 - Mean percentage fruit rot incidence | Year 2 - Mean percentage fruit rot incidence | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Farm Location | At harvest | At 3-week storage | Cumulative | Farm Location | At harvest | At 3-week storage | Cumulative |
| Chilliwack | Surrey | ||||||
| Farm 1 | 24 | 49 | 73 | Farm 1 | 1 | 18 | 19 |
| Farm 2 | 3 | 20 | 23 | ||||
| Langley | Langley | ||||||
| Farm 1 | 3 | 43 | 46 | Farm 1 | 3 | 7 | 10 |
| Farm 2 | 5 | 24 | 29 | Farm 2 | 1 | 20 | 21 |
| Farm 3 | 1 | 13 | 14 | ||||
| Pitt Meadows | Pitt Meadows | ||||||
| Farm 1 | 8 | 56 | 64 | Farm 1 | 3 | 53 | 56 |
| Farm 2 | 7 | 24 | 31 | Farm 2 | 2 | 42 | 44 |
| Farm 3 | 2 | 61 | 63 | Farm 3 | 1 | 44 | 45 |
| Richmond | Richmond | ||||||
| Farm 1 | 3 | 26 | 29 | Farm 1 | 10 | 67 | 77 |
| Farm 2 | 4 | 28 | 32 | Farm 2 | 0 | 38 | 38 |
| Farm 3 | 7 | 11 | 18 | Farm 3 | 1 | 27 | 28 |
| Farm 4 | 7 | 58 | 65 | ||||
| Farm 5 | 8 | 21 | 29 | ||||
| Delta | Delta | ||||||
| Farm 1 | 16 | 20 | 36 | Farm 1 | 1 | 33 | 34 |
| Farm 2 | 0 | 17 | 17 | Farm 2 | 9 | 32 | 41 |
| Farm 3 | 3 | 19 | 22 | Farm 3 | 18 | 53 | 71 |
Mean percentage incidence of fruit rot in each farm was calculated from three replicate samples, with a sample size of 40 fruit per replicate, thus a total of 120 fruit.