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Hi All,
My tomato plant is producing tomatoes with blossom rot.
I thought this was caused by lack of water and lack of
calcium. The plant get deluged with water every two
days and I give it a lot of organic bone meal.
What am I missing?
T wrote:
Hi All,
My tomato plant is producing tomatoes with blossom rot.
I thought this was caused by lack of water and lack of
calcium. The plant get deluged with water every two
days and I give it a lot of organic bone meal.
What am I missing?
root system development vs. heat and demand upon said
root system. if your upper portion of the plants is
more than what the roots can provide... one way to
deal with this is to limit how many fruits you allow
to develop (which is sad).
normally for us this happens with the first fruits
developed during the season and then improves with
later production. this year there is a longer time
of BER and i've had to discard those fruits.
with the tomato processing season just getting going
we'll see how it goes, but this year has been a real
struggle with a lot of issues so my hopes are right now
is to just get through it and do my best with what we
get.
songbird
normally for us this happens with the first fruits
developed during the season and then improves with
later production. this year there is a longer time
of BER and i've had to discard those fruits.
On 8/26/25 2:57 AM, songbird wrote:
normally for us this happens with the first fruits
developed during the season and then improves with
later production. this year there is a longer time
of BER and i've had to discard those fruits.
You called it! No more blossom rat!!!
T wrote:
On 8/26/25 2:57 AM, songbird wrote:
normally for us this happens with the first fruits
developed during the season and then improves with
later production. this year there is a longer time
of BER and i've had to discard those fruits.
You called it! No more blossom rat!!!
good to hear.
today was my 2nd picking of tomatoes, 4 buckets
(about 100lbs) from 9 plants, with an extra half
bucket of discards (fruits damaged from raccoons
and ones on the ground or other issues i don't
want to deal with).
will be canning some of them this evening.
normal conversion rate is about 3lbs per quart.
songbird
Awesome!
Do you run chickens? Chickens love tomatoes,
even the blems.
T wrote:
...
Awesome!
Do you run chickens? Chickens love tomatoes,
even the blems.
no chickens. i used to keep worms but i don't do that
any longer, but all garden debris usually gets buried in
a garden someplace so the worms eventually do get to it.
i do not want complications of keeping animals as where
we are is prime raccoon habitat. i could live off raccoon
if i were willing to trap, kill and clean them. not that
i want to do that (or i would be already).
i keep things simple. no pets. no animals outside.
songbird
On 9/5/25 2:43 AM, songbird wrote:
T wrote:
...
Awesome!
Do you run chickens? Chickens love tomatoes,
even the blems.
no chickens. i used to keep worms but i don't do that
any longer, but all garden debris usually gets buried in
a garden someplace so the worms eventually do get to it.
i do not want complications of keeping animals as where
we are is prime raccoon habitat. i could live off raccoon
if i were willing to trap, kill and clean them. not that
i want to do that (or i would be already).
i keep things simple. no pets. no animals outside.
songbird
Do either of these help?
https://www.gardenguides.com/69973-repel-raccoons/ https://www.trutechinc.com/raccoon-repellent/
T wrote:
On 9/5/25 2:43 AM, songbird wrote:
T wrote:
...
Awesome!
Do you run chickens? Chickens love tomatoes,
even the blems.
no chickens. i used to keep worms but i don't do that
any longer, but all garden debris usually gets buried in
a garden someplace so the worms eventually do get to it.
i do not want complications of keeping animals as where
we are is prime raccoon habitat. i could live off raccoon
if i were willing to trap, kill and clean them. not that
i want to do that (or i would be already).
i keep things simple. no pets. no animals outside.
songbird
Do either of these help?
https://www.gardenguides.com/69973-repel-raccoons/
https://www.trutechinc.com/raccoon-repellent/
they may for a short period of time but they usually
get used to them and will come anyways. same for deer,
rabbits, etc.
the best thing is a good fence. build it once and it
should last 20-30yrs or longer. unfortunately here the
wrong kind of fencing was put up so it doesn't stop them.
songbird