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Elderberry Disease?

 
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So is this just the phase before berries appear, or is it disease?
The flowers all look like this , and some of the foliage is brown.
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Elderberry Flower
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Incomplete pollination. Was it raining too much when the plant was in bloom?
 
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Yes!
There has been sooo much rain.
I am actually very happy to hear this!
I plan on propagating the blankety blank out of this plant, and I was worried it was infected with/susceptible to something.
 
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Elderberry will also produce more with cross pollination. If you plant a different variety nearby, you will get more for both.
 
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I have access to a grove of elderberry plants at my community garden and free reign to take cuttings.
There is also a local permaculture nursery selling varieties at what seem to be reasonable prices.
I like to propagate and these plants seem as easy to propagate as raspberries.
I will try to keep track of varieties, but I honestly am terrible at that.
Apparently some cultivars have downward facing flowers, which might help resist excess rain.
I am more and more interested in getting better strains of a given plant.
Better yields can mean the difference between people enthusiastically gathering a resource vs. leaving it for the birds.
 
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