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Black bottom on my tomatoes
Posted on 7/8/20 at 7:47 pm
Posted on 7/8/20 at 7:47 pm
Any way to stop this? Home remedies?
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Posted on 7/8/20 at 7:50 pm to rockford177
It’s a result of inadequate calcium uptake called blossom end rot. You can spray a soluble calcium or calcium nitrate on the plants to prevent new tomatoes from getting it but you cannot remedy any fruit already affected.
Posted on 7/8/20 at 8:04 pm to Lou the Jew from LSU
How do I make a soluable calcium solution?
Posted on 7/8/20 at 8:09 pm to rockford177
Yes, it is a result of inadequate calcium uptake. Most often, inconsistent watering is the culprit. It also could be too much nitrogen combined with the hot weather. Got a bunch of rain this week? Add that in and this causes rapid growth and the calcium uptake can't keep up.
Posted on 7/8/20 at 8:13 pm to rockford177
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How do I make a soluable calcium solution?
You can try doing this.. I haven’t had a BER problem in a long time, so I’ve never done it. But a lot of people swear by it.
Posted on 7/9/20 at 12:44 pm to PillageUrVillage
I've used Tums with success. Usually put it down around Fourth of July since the tomatoes have taken a good bit out of the ground and want to get them to finish strong.
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Posted on 7/9/20 at 7:10 pm to rockford177
I had this on mine that grow in a container. Added tomato fertilizer to it and it cured it
Posted on 7/10/20 at 5:56 pm to rockford177
It’s my first year to try and grow tomatoes. I have two in containers and two in the ground. I applied calcium nitrate when tomatoes first started to appear and twice more a couple of weeks apart each time. I watered them consistently and only when the plants had a hint of needing water.
The plants in the containers were doing great....nice and green and loaded with green tomatoes. A couple of the tomatoes had ripened and was picked. Then almost overnight over the next 2-3 days many leaves turned yellow and the branches/stalks turned brown. Young tomatoes were just falling off due to wind or just barely touching them or just from gravity. Many tomatoes turned orange/red prematurely. The plants are no longer growing or producing new blossoms.
Any idea of what caused this? The two in the ground (different variety) are still doing great.
The plants in the containers were doing great....nice and green and loaded with green tomatoes. A couple of the tomatoes had ripened and was picked. Then almost overnight over the next 2-3 days many leaves turned yellow and the branches/stalks turned brown. Young tomatoes were just falling off due to wind or just barely touching them or just from gravity. Many tomatoes turned orange/red prematurely. The plants are no longer growing or producing new blossoms.
Any idea of what caused this? The two in the ground (different variety) are still doing great.
Posted on 7/10/20 at 6:26 pm to gumbeaux
Unless you are growing tomato varieties that are virus resistant to verticillium wilt (V), fusarium wilt races 1 and 2 (F), nematodes, and tobacco mosaic virus (T), you will have them dying on you.
Celebrity and Park's Whopper are two varieties that are resistant to all of those listed above. I plant Celebrity and Park's Whopper varieties of tomatoes in the ground on rows. Before setting out my plants, I sow 13-13-13 fertilizer and pelletized dolomitic limestone and till it into the rows. The limestone contains calcium and magnesium which will prevent Blossom End Rot developing in the tomatoes.
Once you've planted the tomatoes, begin spraying with an insecticide once a week, and again after any heavy rain. Use 1 tsp of Agrisel USA Zone-Plus Insecticide Concentrate (36.8% permethrin) per gallon of water. This will insure you don't get worms in your tomatoes, as well damage from other pests like aphids, stinkbugs, asian beetles, etc.
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Celebrity and Park's Whopper are two varieties that are resistant to all of those listed above. I plant Celebrity and Park's Whopper varieties of tomatoes in the ground on rows. Before setting out my plants, I sow 13-13-13 fertilizer and pelletized dolomitic limestone and till it into the rows. The limestone contains calcium and magnesium which will prevent Blossom End Rot developing in the tomatoes.
Once you've planted the tomatoes, begin spraying with an insecticide once a week, and again after any heavy rain. Use 1 tsp of Agrisel USA Zone-Plus Insecticide Concentrate (36.8% permethrin) per gallon of water. This will insure you don't get worms in your tomatoes, as well damage from other pests like aphids, stinkbugs, asian beetles, etc.
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This post was edited on 7/10/20 at 6:33 pm
Posted on 7/11/20 at 6:52 am to boudinman
Thanks so much!
Posted on 7/11/20 at 9:08 pm to rockford177
You should be able to get calcium nitrate from your local nursery.
Posted on 7/12/20 at 5:30 pm to GetmorewithLes
Get some Azomite dust or rock phosphate. Azomite has alot of different trace elements. Most organic vegetable fertilizers have calcium in them and lower doses of nitrogen
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