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| Hello everyone! This is my first year growing tomatoes so let me apologize in advance if this is a dumb question! :) All of my tomatoes are doing wonderful! I'm so proud of them, especially since I started them from seed! I feel like a proud momma. Haha! Anyway, I'm growing Cherokee Purples, Pink brandywines and san marzanos and I have lots and lots of baby tomatoes! I'm so excited to try my first heirloom tomatoes! Every day I go out and check on them, and I peeked on the bottom of them to see if they were showing any signs of BER. I've attached a picture showing the bottom of some of my Cherokee Purples, and I wanted to know if this was just a normal tomato bottom or BER. Thanks so much! Grace |
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- Posted by missingtheobvious Blue Ridge 7a (My Page) on Sat, Jun 7, 14 at 15:57
| They look to me like normal tomato blossom scars. Blossom scars vary from variety to variety and from individual fruit to individual fruit. Some are round, some linear, some pretty much nonexistent. |
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| First year and from seed ? Nice job ! Maybe growing tomatoes is your super power. ;) Contrary to popular opinion, there are dumb questions. This is not one of them. It's a good question. |
This post was edited by plaidbird on Sat, Jun 7, 14 at 16:08
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- Posted by carolyn137 z4/5 NY (My Page) on Sat, Jun 7, 14 at 16:33
| Agree with just normal blossom scar, Here's some pictures of blossom end rot and there a Hope this helps. Carolyn Carolyn |
Here is a link that might be useful: Blossom Rot IMAGES
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| Thanks sooo much everyone! :) I can't take all the credit though, I followed a ton of advice that I read around these forums and I think that's been my biggest reason for success with my tomatoes! Everyone here is so helpful and knowledgeable! I'm so glad to hear it's not BER! I'm so excited to try an heirloom tomato! Thank you all sooo much! :) |
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| Those, as already mentioned, are not affected by BER. If you were to see BER, more likely would be on SanMarzano (a Roma type) rather than Chrokee purple ... Glad you don't have BER problem. I find it very frustrating, pitching all those tomatoes. |
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