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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: LILLILEAF on April 18, 2024, 16:33

Title: blossom end rot prevention
Post by: LILLILEAF on April 18, 2024, 16:33

what do you use as a prevention for blossom end rot,reading a few different articles,last year first time ever my tomatoes only 1 plant got the end rot,i know my watering was in good order so calcium was the problem, do i have to buy a special calcium supplement?.

Title: Re: blossom end rot prevention
Post by: AndyRVTR on April 18, 2024, 16:45

You can buy calcium powder or you can make your own... I use egg shells, wash, dry, crush and then blitz in my nutribullet to a powder, then I add it to compost at every potting on stage and also add ½ a handful when planting into their final stations, seems to work for me!

Title: Re: blossom end rot prevention
Post by: Subversive_plot on April 20, 2024, 11:25

You can also supply calcium as gypsum, or as pelleted lawn lime.

Another option is calcium nitrate fertilizer.

Title: Re: blossom end rot prevention
Post by: mumofstig on April 20, 2024, 15:46

 Over applying high-potash tomato fertilisers, can also cause BO rot - as explained here
https://www.allotment-garden.org/vegetable/how-to-grow-your-own-tomatoes/tomato-troubles-diseases-causes-cures/tomato-blossom-end-rot-causes-cures/

Title: Re: blossom end rot prevention
Post by: LILLILEAF on April 21, 2024, 13:11

Thanks for the replies, i like the egg shell one as i have chickens, i will start collecting today :D.

Title: Re: blossom end rot prevention
Post by: Oswald Bastable on April 22, 2024, 20:14

You could try a milk feed when they start to flower as a calcium supplement. 50/50 milk/water to replace a standard watering.

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