problems Guide
Small, olive-green specks or sunken yellow-olive lesions covered in green spores on fruit; water-soaked areas on fruit surface where figs touch; caused by funghi
This funghi usually appears over winter in plant debris.
C.
herbarum usually more common on green fruit, Alternaria spp.
primarily a problem on ripe fruit.
Rot can be minimized by picking fruit before it becomes overripe; reducing dust in orchards may also help to reduce the incidence of rot.