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Posted by proudgm_03 5b MO (My Page) on Sun, Jul 20, 08 at 21:10
| What makes tomatoes rot on the bottom while still on the vine? Mine are tied up and not touching the ground. |
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| Tomatoes have lots of diseases but there is something called blossom end rot. I am not an expert. My book says dry conditions after wet; calcium deficiency. This is more of a weather condition causing a calcium deficiency I have read. I can't grow the heirloom tomotoes because most of the tomatoes rot; I think this is disease combined with the long, long time it takes for the huge tomatoes to mature. By the time it is red some bug has taken a bite out of it and then it rots. I am sure others here know more than I do. |
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| i think it is BER also. throw them away and the plant should return to normal. some folks use epsom salts to help minimize this. i don't know if it works. i had a little this yr but after the first blush everything went back to normal. i think paste tomatoes are suceptible to BER. william |
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| I always put about a tablespoon of Epsom salts in when I plant. That being said, every year I loose some to various things....I don't fret, just toss them over the fence to the chickens. That is just the nature of gardening, no matter the plant. |
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| Thanks for the info. It's been along time since i've grown tomatoes and had forgotten what caused ber. Will get after them tomorrow with epsom salts. |
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| Off topic. gldno1 I looked up your page. You sound like a retired dairy farmer - good sense, don't get too upset about little things. I used to have dairy farmers on two sides of me. One day I drove by and the field was full of dead cows. The fertilizer spreader had not worked and the hay was too high in nitrates. Those people milked three times a day the first at three in the morning. You have to roll with the punches to be a dairy farmer. |
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