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Tomato Pests & Diseases

Is this animal or insect damage?

YellowMellow_in_NH

18 years ago

Hi,

This is my first almost ripe heirloom (a Rose tom). What's causing this?

All the plants I have (13 heirlooms) look very healthy. I haven't noticed any hornworms or other insects (other than bees and dragonflies). All the other tomatoes are still green and unblemished. The weather has been quite warm and humid but, in the past few days, temps have dropped to the 50s at night and 70s during the day.

BTW, what looks like a bite in one of the sides, wasn't there when the tom was still attached to the plant. One of my fingers went into that rotten side when I was picking it.

Thank you for looking.

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Comments (2)

jean001
18 years ago
Might be neither.

Instead, it's likely that the cracks in the fruit remained open long enough before you picked the fruit that a secondary rot set in.

The "fix" would be to pick your tomatoes before they are dead ripe. I collect mine when they have good color but not yet deep red.
CAstarter
18 years ago
The cracks are usually from uneven watering times from what I have read. I dont get them, and I water on timer every morning very early. As far as dark spots I have never had that so I cant say....good luck

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