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Centennial Colorado

Hi all,
I have a tomato around 2 pounds that is at last 10 fused tomatoes. It is starting to develop BER and is 15 days old. Is there any way to save it? Or if not how long do they last before being considered damaged?

8/4/2023 7:31:22 PM

Elk County, PA

There is an article posted in the scientific literature sub someone posted the other day on BER. Good read.

8/5/2023 9:38:59 AM

Elk County, PA

Spudder posted it.
https://extension.unh.edu/resource/growing-vegetables-managing-blossom-end-rot-fact-sheet-0

8/5/2023 9:40:11 AM

Grittyville, WA

I left one on hoping it would heal but it rotted. Some growers have successfully "cleaned up" small amounts of BER. Spaziani (gardenrebel) might have his fight against it in one of his old diaries from a few years ago, I think he was at least partly successful.

Another one had BER on only one lobe, and I broke that lobe off, and the remaining tomato is healthy and it healed where I broke it.

If its sufficiently young it might heal, either on its own or after surgery, Id go the surgery route and put a fan on it but thats just what Id do, not saying that I actually know what I am doing.

8/5/2023 12:47:10 PM

Westminster

I'm curious on the judging of this as well as I had a small spot dry out and it's plenty firm. I hit all my plants with a foliar feeding of calcium but I think it's a couple weeks of 100 degrees that did it.

8/6/2023 10:05:54 PM

Grittyville, WA

I have yet another BER one that might keep growing. I think I'll experinent on it so that next year I'll be smarter & better able to give advice.

8/7/2023 1:24:37 AM