Please help!!!
TLDR: what's the brown stuff on my tomatoes?
I live in New Zealand and the temperatures have been super hot (28-32°C) for the last week or so. My tomatoes are going along really nicely but I'm struggling to keep up with watering more than once a day.
Today I noticed my paste tomato has started going brown on the ends of my green tomatoes!!! It has hit 3 of the big tomatoes so far. What is causing this and is it fixable? For context I have two other beefsteak tomatoes in the same box planter, I just used vegetable growing mix and fertilize with a 1:1:1 once a week just for convenience.
As a side note I also noticed these small bugs on one of the beafsteaks, but I have some preying mantis' living on the plant so I'm not too worried about it but if you think I should be worried please help!
by bloss_balls
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Looks like blossom end rot. Needs consistent water and calcium.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/tomatoes/s/qYwvEXrPL1
Best of luck.
The bugs are not Blossom End Rot…and you should try to get them gone quickly. They look like aphids to me but never been to NZ so not sure what all you have there. Something as simple as soapy water sprayed onto them may kill them. Or neem oil or natural pyrethrin (natural chrysanthemum derived insect killer…but can kill your local helpful pollinators too). To disambiguate there are synthetic pyrethrins that are stronger than the natural. You can just squish them or ladybugs or similar will eat them. But the can easily go wild and damage your plant. So that’s likely unrelated to the BER.