Kiss Blossom End Rot Goodbye! Nothing is worse than growing a crop 95% of the way to harvest only to have the fruit ruined in the final hour. Enter, Blossom End Rot.
I very misunderstood affliction with numerous home remedies to fix…but honestly, it all comes down to moisture, despite what you may have heard.
So today, let’s fix our Blossom End Rot problems once and for all and make sure our harvests aren’t ruined at the last minute.
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Or freaking add dolomite lime
Period never seen blossoms end rot ever
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Love you please keep making vids I’m a BAS ASS gardener because of you
hi 🤗
i definitely appreciate your videos and often re-watch specific one based on what im doing in my garden at the time. tfs
Can i still use the tomato with BER?
I knew nothing about BER, so thank you for this video. I've had issues in previous years and now suspect it might well have been BER. Forewarned is fore-armed.
How much lime is too much, doesn't seem to be limit?
What about overwattering ?
So drought will cause BER, by way of lacking calcium, but supplementing calcium usually won't help because the issue is the water.
Ok so after watching this video, I realize my mistake growing tomatoes last year was two fold: I under watered, I did inconsistent watering and I over fertilized. I tried to fix it with lime and calcium and it didn’t help one bit. This year I used a product called Bonide and haven’t seen any problems. Having said that, I also added soaking hoses for my watering, and I was very consistent as well. So Bonide or proper watering? Next year, I’ll experiment with both ways and see what happens. 😅
Thank you this is VERY helpful!! 🤗
Crushed egg shells around the stem… Tomatoes love it
Wow, this is incredibly educational, useful, and enlightening information about BER. Thank you very much. 👍🏻
How do you determine how often to water plants/Tomatoes? In southern Texas its often 90-104*F, even in June. Some places say to water twice a day due to these conditions. Seems hard to gauge watering due to the immense heat conditions.
So, can you just trim off the bad spot without any flavor loss? Thanks Jeff
So I’ve now found two tomatoes with BER. Now what? No answer to what to do if the problem has already started
Good video.
Just wanted to add that this BER occurs most often in container grown tomatoes…especially Roma tomatoes.
If you have a swimming pool, then you've won the lottery!
Just add a tbsp of granular calcium to a 2 litre water container and feed each plant once every 2 weeks. If your leaves start turning 'yellowish' cut back on the calcium.
Thanks Jeff. I want to get ahead of this, this year. I'm Maine zone 5a and my toms don't ripen until late summer, and fall and I struggle with this. Our rain and foggy mornings produce so much moisture. I'm going to add some calcium and not overthink it! 😉
I struggled with that this year on all my tomato plants. Maybe I also planted too many in one raised bed. Thank you for this timely video!
I've had BER on ALL of my 25 tomato plants, planted in 2 different locations, all planted in the ground.
This is in the UK which has drowned in rain during July and very little consistent sun. I've also fitted irrigation pipes, so it wasn't a lack of water.
This year, I've planted all the plants much deeper than last year. So only conclusion I can come up with is a lack of sun, if that is such a thing with BER?
I'm gutted after all that work growing 25 plants and 8 different types.
Low Ph is a hugh culprit for BER.
BER has taken every single one of my yellow squash this year. Thanks for the tips!
We tackled BER in a two step program:
1. Water every other day, and be consistent about it
2. Stop growing heirloom Romas
I just pick all the bad ones off powdered milk then I mix up powdered milk port at the base of the plant problem solved
Your tomato plant that has BER looks like a San Marzano. Perhaps they're more susceptible to BER? The only tomato plant among the 6 that I'm planting this year that has BER is also a San Marzano.
Unfortunately there's nothing that can be done about the BER I'm getting. It's only good sunny weather maybe 2 days a week if I'm lucky. If it's not raining like crazy, it's super cloudy. I'm 100% sure that I'll get less than half of the tomatoes I planted and that number is declining every day. Looking out the window right now and just watching my tomatoes drowning and rotting away is a real bummer.
I have a problem with my tomato plant, it's not blossom end rot, and it's not just curled leaves from stress, it's more than that:
It was fine until a few days ago, and then suddenly the leaves became limp and lifeless. https://i.imgur.com/s3Ock0z.jpg
Thanks again, Jeff! For the 1st time, I had blossom end rot on my bell peppers this July! I had seen it on other folks tomatoes, but hadn't had any problems with it before now. Your information should help avoid it on the next set. We had WAY too much water for a week, & the normal drainage couldn't keep up. Some plants died!
Super helpful to know! I had an issue with zucchinis last year that I misdiagnosed as possible BER (having watched your videos on them I now realize it was likely that the plants were suffering from lack of airflow and mildew due to the container I was using) but it's reassuring to know that a lot of my standard garden practices (composting egg-shells to add to soil calcium, mulching, deep biweekly waterings) probably cover the preventative steps. We're in for a rough summer in my climate zone so let's see how the container tomato trellis does this year.
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Great job explaining, thank you!
Do you know of DIY tests that we can use. There is no way that I'm going to send soil samples to some lab every year.
Excellent video, really helpful. Thanks.