Starting last year my Hinnomaki red gooseberry started to have some berries with the small scars like I tried to get in the picture. All the berries with the scar have the skin darken early and drop despite them not being ripe. I haven’t seen any larva or bugs when I’ve opened them up. This year the bush was finally loaded but virtually all the berries have the scars so I’m not really going to get any fruit off the bush so I’m bummed. Has anyone seen this before and knows if this is from a pest or a virus? I am planning on picking up all the fallen fruit and throwing them in the trash. I am in the Seattle area if that helps identify what might be going on.
The green one looks like something might have taken a nibble out of it at some point. But I could be wrong.
When that happens to mine it’s plum curculio but there is usually a worm inside.
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There’s a link to a worm, but I think it’s in a currant. Thing is super tiny
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I think the worm is probably it. The damage on the currants looks like what is on my gooseberries. That worm is tiny I could have easily missed it. @BobVance does mention he found a couple of gooseberries with the same problem. I stripped the bush yesterday and picked all the fallen berries I could find so hopefully next year it is not quite as bad
What happened to the plant this year @Bsnyds ? Did it recover?
I’m in the Vancouver area and this is happening to me this year. I cut open a few of them and found a few worms, but unfortunately most of the berries on my plant look like this, so I’m thinking of stripping it and throwing away all the berries like you did.
That is sooo tiny
Last year I just took the berries off so the plant was fine. I tried spraying some neem oil and the blossoms were gone and netting the bushes right afterwards. That did seem to help with limiting the damaged berries, I am also plagued by some small green caterpillars that will strip the leaves. some of them got inside the netting and the plants are nearly defoliated. I may not get much fruit or good fruit because of that
That sounds like sawflies. I think some other people on the west Coast have issues with them. I haven’t had any issues in MD
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