I’ve got 4 tomato plants and they’re all producing small fruits right now, but on just 1 of the 4 plants the tomatoes have these small holes on them. They all start out pinpoint size and then grow to be as big as the picture you see below.
I picked this tomato to cut into it and investigate. It doesn’t appear to be the work of insects? I am beginning to wonder if the plant is diseased or has defects because as I mentioned, all of the other plant’s young fruits appear to be perfectly happy.
I know it looks like there is a slug inside of that tomato but it’s really just rotten growth.
by SOcuriousLEE
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It’s not being eaten. It’s called catfacing and is related to a misshapen flower. You’ll get some good ones and maybe some gnarly ones, but as long as it’s not rotten you can cut around and eat.
It’s likely that it is insects (worm). In the same way that a scar you got as a child would grow as your skin grows when you become an adult, a small bite that the tomato healed when it was smaller may grow into a larger hole that it’s scarred over.
Any opening (like a bite) can be a vector for moisture to enter that never dries out, so it makes sense that it would rot inside the hole!
I highly doubt it’s disease, as the rest of the fruit looks healthy other than the blemish, as opposed to the blemish spreading and causing issues for more and more tomato flesh over time
That’s either catfacing or a bird pecking a weak spot looking for water. If you already have a birdbath so the birds don’t have to vandalize your produce it’s catfacing.