Tomato wierdo

lincspoacher · « **on:** July 18, 2008, 20:52 »

Anyone recognise this problem on the bottom of a couple of my tomatoes?

Isnt there something called Tomato Tortrix that looks like this?

DD. · « **Reply #1 on:** July 18, 2008, 20:54 »

Or simply 'blossom end rot'.

lincspoacher · « **Reply #2 on:** July 18, 2008, 21:21 »

Wow, so its calcium deficiency, never seen that before :O ty

Thats why i like disease and pests of plants, theres so many you have no chance of knowing everything

Now where the hell do you buy calcium nitrate or calcium chloride............

DD. · « **Reply #3 on:** July 18, 2008, 21:28 »

Quote from: "lincspoacher"

Thats why i like disease and pests of plants

:shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

Calcium Nitrate...............

http://www.gardendirect.co.uk/calcium-nitrate-p-624

gobs · « **Reply #4 on:** July 18, 2008, 23:36 »

I don't know what this is, but - even knowing BER can have a million faces - I think it is a more complex issue than simple blossom end rot.

It has 2 eyes, staring at you and spitting black stuff through its mouth and has a lot of black spots all over the place and a very worrying purple medusa like ring around. :shock: :shock: :shock:

Personally, would play it safe and lose these fruits, unlikely you want to gorge them anyway,

BER, which well might have provided an entry for some other rot/s, even though a result of C deficiency, does not nec mean your soil is deficient, it is more commonly an availability problem, through watering and imbalance of nutrients, but you know more about this than myself.

lincspoacher · « **Reply #5 on:** July 19, 2008, 00:15 »

Well its growing in a strawberry grobag, so its suprising its calcium deficiency, but its wort ha try.

pushrod · « **Reply #6 on:** July 19, 2008, 00:20 »

If it is BER it might be caused by irregular watering, over feeding with ammonium based fertiliser (as opposed to nitrate based ones) or calcium deficiency in the soil. All of them lead to Calcium deficiency in the fruit.

lincspoacher · « **Reply #7 on:** July 19, 2008, 00:24 »

overwatering seems fav, SWMBO waters them a bit haphazard.

pushrod · « **Reply #8 on:** July 19, 2008, 00:33 »

Quote from: "lincspoacher"

overwatering seems fav, SWMBO waters them a bit haphazard.

Get a more reliable wife/partner

or try growing them in those super big trays with gravel/hydroleca(sp). I gave up on grow bags for this reason - hot days in the greenhouse could mean they needed watering 2 or 3 times :evil:

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