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Sun, May 19, 13 at 9:43
| I checked on my little "Black Prince" plant today. Although the leaves are not large and robust like other varieties..I think it is doing OK. A fruit which is about 2 inches in diam. has a strange hole in it. It is a perfect 1/4 to 1/2 inch hole that is 1/2 inch deep. Almost looks like you took a drill bit and made a perfect little hole. It is dried now around the "cut" area. What is this??? |
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| Birds will sometimes take a few pecks and can make clean shaped holes, i know they do it with peppers. The dusky sap beetle can make a clean shaped hole, but smaller than the one you described. There's a good chance that i'm wrong, in your case, so take my guesses with a grain of salt. Also: many here would want to see a pic before hazarding a guess. |
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| Another possibility is tomato fruitworms. I control those with a BT liquid spray applied once a week, it is an organic pesticide that only kills caterpillars. My first year growing tomatoes, caterpillars ate all the tomatoes that I got (it was a bad harvest anyway due to extreme heat) so I've used that ever since. |
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