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
blossom rot??
Aug 25, 2025
Last reply: 10 months ago
9 Replies
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
Thank you!
This is the first fruits. I have about 25 green ones developing.
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: ...
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?
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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
Geez. At some point you should consider putting up an electric fence.
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