Gardeners Delight Tomatoes. Why are the fruits splitting?

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I've grown tomatoes in a greenhouse for the first time this year.

This includes three Gardeners Delight tomato plants. The yield and the fruit has been excellent.

Earlier in the year, a few tomatoes split, but because it was only one or two it didn't seem to matter that much.

The split is always the same...a vertical split across the top half of the tomato about 1mm wide.

The split doesn't happen on the other tomatoes....Shirley, Vanessa and Moneymaker, only the Gardeners Delight.

Recently most of the tomatoes are splitting. They are still good to eat but I'd really like to know what is causing the splitting and how to stop it.

Anyone out there who can tell me where I'm going wrong!!

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Re: Gardeners Delight Tomatoes. Why are the fruits splitting?
« Reply #1 on: October 18, 2009, 23:08 »
You may be keeping them too damp.  Allow the soil to dry out a bit.  Especially if you have removed a lot of the leaves.

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Re: Gardeners Delight Tomatoes. Why are the fruits splitting?
« Reply #2 on: October 18, 2009, 23:20 »
I have seen the same thing with the last few gardeners delight grown outdoors in growbags which have been unwatered and no rain for a month. My assumption was that they were ripe.

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Re: Gardeners Delight Tomatoes. Why are the fruits splitting?
« Reply #3 on: October 19, 2009, 15:36 »
This is probably due to the change in temperature over night.  At night it is cold and shrink.  In the morning they get warm again and expand causing them to split.  This would not effect the larger tomatoes as much.
The same thing is happening to me.
I have heard of taking the stakes out and laying the plants down on straw. This might help the problem while leaving them to ripen on the plant.

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Re: Gardeners Delight Tomatoes. Why are the fruits splitting?
« Reply #4 on: October 19, 2009, 16:10 »
If I did that the slugs would eat the lot overnight.   :mad: 

After the ground frosts last week I picked the lot and they are ripening inside.  It is all too chancy now  - I'd hate to lose them.
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Re: Gardeners Delight Tomatoes. Why are the fruits splitting?
« Reply #5 on: October 19, 2009, 22:16 »
I think that inconsistent watering can cause this. If they dry out a little, and then you over water then this might be the cause.

I have suffered from this problem also this year.

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Re: Gardeners Delight Tomatoes. Why are the fruits splitting?
« Reply #6 on: October 19, 2009, 23:20 »
iriegular wtering ,

the roots take up the water to the fruit 

but the skins cannot expand as fast as the fruit inside,



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