Capt Kirk
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| Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 3:22 pm Post subject: Blossom end rot on tomatoes. |
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What causes it on tomato's? I have one plant that have it and 2 that don't. At first I thought that I was watering too much. But I water all 3 of them the same and only one plant has it.
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gardenmama
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| Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 7:47 pm Post subject: |
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What i have read is that it is caused by a lack of calcium on the soil...and some places have said that it is caused by too much water and too much heat at the same time...inconsistant watering...I had it on 2 plants in particular for several weeks but now all the plants are fine.
Here is a link:
http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/3000/3117.html
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Growingpains
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| Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 9:51 pm Post subject: |
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We also had it on a couple of plants and not all the others. Seems strange to me, but I'm mighty glad it was only a couple of plants.
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Growingpains
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| Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 9:12 pm Post subject: |
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I spoke too soon. I had to take out all the tomatoes from the big garden due to blossom end rot. The plants were doing fine until we stopped getting rain. I noticed lots of the tomatoes had the rot and not wanting to lose the green ones, I pulled out the plants. We still have the plants in the oval garden.
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Sjoerd
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| Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 11:44 pm Post subject: |
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I am so sorry that you pulled-out those plants.
When I get that on my toms, I just remove the deformed fruits and let the plants continue. I simply make sure that their watering is as regular as possible. I also use some seaweed calcium granules in the soil bed that I plant the toms in.
Blossom end rot is not actually a systemic bacterial, viral, fungal or paracitic disease. It is a physiological problem.
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gardenmama
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| Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 12:06 am Post subject: |
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I had the blossom end rot on a few of the plants but just pulled the affected tomatoes. Once they were gone and I put in the epsom salt and more fertilizer everything was fine.
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