These are the only tomatoes that came in like this on my cherry tomatoes plants. I have about 15 of these plants and these are the only ones that came in like this.
These are jasper tomatoes
Anyone know what this is?
by InappropriatePot
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Alive_Anxiety_7908
Did you cut one open if so was something Inside? I had one look like this once and it was full of larvae
They look fine inside – but the skin feels so weird and bumpy
Fourfinger10
I’d have to guess you had an over abundance of rain. Or extreme heat. Either will do things to the skin
ObsessiveAboutCats
Most of my tomatoes, from multiple varieties, look like that right now. It’s been in the high 90’s here and there’s tons of pest pressure. Also the plants are old and somewhat diseased this late in the season and are just at the end of their lifespan. I’m ripping them out as I can stand to be outside.
Cyclopsis
Can you take a few pictures of the plant itself? Particularly any damage or blotting you see on the leaves
CitrusBelt
You can get funky ripening with either extreme heat or a severe lack of potassium, or possibly from insect feeding damage (stinkbugs, etc.) but at that point I’d be thinking “virus”, frankly.
Alive_Anxiety_7908
You’ve got me beat. Does the plant look normal?
DismalBeautiful4562
Might be stink bug damage
Kasab12
Man, those are some unhappy tomatoes. I’m sorry!
My best guess is you’ve got a couple issues going on. First of all, I saw you mentioned high heat – I think you’ve got some damage from extreme temps. Second, it looks to me like some squash bugs did some damage to the fruit. Google “squash bug damage to tomatoes” and look at the pictures. It looks to me like they got ahold of your tomatoes, and that coupled with stress from the heat made these guys quite unhappy.
Hope it’s a contained issue and you don’t have any more problems!
NickWitATL
Thanks for sharing. I’m new to (in-ground) tomato gardening and following along. I’m in the suburbs of Atlanta, and we haven’t had rain in weeks. My tomato plants are doing well, but I think it’s because they aren’t in all day, full sun. Good luck with the rest of your plants!
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Did you cut one open if so was something Inside? I had one look like this once and it was full of larvae
https://preview.redd.it/p7j8j4daw68d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6e138e09c7350c9a0064307ad18d2ce76f1ba618
They look fine inside – but the skin feels so weird and bumpy
I’d have to guess you had an over abundance of rain. Or extreme heat. Either will do things to the skin
Most of my tomatoes, from multiple varieties, look like that right now. It’s been in the high 90’s here and there’s tons of pest pressure. Also the plants are old and somewhat diseased this late in the season and are just at the end of their lifespan. I’m ripping them out as I can stand to be outside.
Can you take a few pictures of the plant itself? Particularly any damage or blotting you see on the leaves
You can get funky ripening with either extreme heat or a severe lack of potassium, or possibly from insect feeding damage (stinkbugs, etc.) but at that point I’d be thinking “virus”, frankly.
You’ve got me beat. Does the plant look normal?
Might be stink bug damage
Man, those are some unhappy tomatoes. I’m sorry!
My best guess is you’ve got a couple issues going on. First of all, I saw you mentioned high heat – I think you’ve got some damage from extreme temps. Second, it looks to me like some squash bugs did some damage to the fruit. Google “squash bug damage to tomatoes” and look at the pictures. It looks to me like they got ahold of your tomatoes, and that coupled with stress from the heat made these guys quite unhappy.
Hope it’s a contained issue and you don’t have any more problems!
Thanks for sharing. I’m new to (in-ground) tomato gardening and following along. I’m in the suburbs of Atlanta, and we haven’t had rain in weeks. My tomato plants are doing well, but I think it’s because they aren’t in all day, full sun. Good luck with the rest of your plants!
Looks like brown rugose