First tomato plant and don’t know why the bottoms are dark.
by Busy_Car3636
23 Comments
AviTil
Read the subreddit’s helpful links. It’s called Blossom End Rot. And yes, very bad, given half your tomato is gone.
SkyeBeary
Blossom end rot! Happened my first year as well, I just let them be and cut the bad parts off then made chilli. Believe it happens when there’s a calcium deficiency.
BeachmontBear
It’s blossom end rot. It’s not good. You need to water more frequently and put some calcium into your soil. Hold off on putting anymore nitrogen too, plants are nitrogen junkies and will pull that in before other nutrients. BER can often be a result of over-fertilization.
Jackskers94
Blossom end rot aka Calcium deficiency.
It could be due to lack of calcium in the soil but inconsistent watering or over/underwatering could cause it as it prevents the plant from collecting the nutrients properly.
You can throw some egg shells around the plant (I usually do that in early June and monitor from there). I would also try and keep a consistent watering schedule as nature allows, when I first started that was my issue.
kicking-chickens-jk
I’ve put limestone and ash around the plants and that stopped the blossom end rot. The ash was from a wood burning stove.
JohnnieWalker19
Yes my friend. It’s bad.
AlbinoSilk
Blossom end rot I water with milk every two days and it works for me as it’s caused by a calcium deficiency… Tomatoes are calcium and magnesium whores, lil milk and sprinkle of Epsom salt is their Starbucks lol ..
Epicsensi-
also, your leaves are wet. only water the base of the plant do not get the plant wet or you will get fungal infection
KingSniperX2240
Fat booty
uhren_fan
Get CalMag
Professional_Size219
Blossom end rot. Usually happens due to a lack of calcium.
Do not bother putting crushed egg shells around them. It takes too long to for the calcium to become available to the plants.
Work some fertilizer into the soil. I had the same problem early in the season with my container grown tomatoes (the nutrients leach out much faster in containers) & used some Dr. Earth’s tomato & vegetable fertilizer. Within a couple of weeks the foliage was much greener (still not a green as the ones in my raised beds) and no more blossom end rot.
Pull those tomatoes off & pitch them.
Realistic-Fact-2584
Not good
dbqsaints
i crush up some tums and add to a spray bottle, and spritz the plants before and after heavy rains, also go around and knock off blossom from bottom of tomatoes once they start forming, so it can hold any moisture to the bottom
Anxious_Resistance
You can use bush doctor Cal-mag to weed weekly. On Amazon. Also you can dry egg shells, crush them up and put them in the pot for calcium. When you water make sure it’s not soaked/soggy
jamiethemime
You can still let those ripen, cut away the bad parts and save seeds from the good parts, so they aren’t a total loss!
feldoneq2wire
Those all have BER. Pick them off. Might need to spray them with Stop Rot or something drastic.
johngunthner
Well it sure as shit ain’t good
charleyhstl
Oh yeah. Cut em off, they’re toast.
yourkingpin1101
Only if you were wanting to eat them
No_Afternoon_5150
You need to spray chelated calcium on the plants
HorrorOne5790
Yes
CappaValley
I don’t think anyone has said this yet, but sometimes you can salvage a tomato that has a little BER on it, but not those ones – so cut them off now, and let your plant focus on producing new ones while you apply whatever fix.
23 Comments
Read the subreddit’s helpful links. It’s called Blossom End Rot. And yes, very bad, given half your tomato is gone.
Blossom end rot! Happened my first year as well, I just let them be and cut the bad parts off then made chilli. Believe it happens when there’s a calcium deficiency.
It’s blossom end rot. It’s not good. You need to water more frequently and put some calcium into your soil. Hold off on putting anymore nitrogen too, plants are nitrogen junkies and will pull that in before other nutrients. BER can often be a result of over-fertilization.
Blossom end rot aka Calcium deficiency.
It could be due to lack of calcium in the soil but inconsistent watering or over/underwatering could cause it as it prevents the plant from collecting the nutrients properly.
You can throw some egg shells around the plant (I usually do that in early June and monitor from there). I would also try and keep a consistent watering schedule as nature allows, when I first started that was my issue.
I’ve put limestone and ash around the plants and that stopped the blossom end rot. The ash was from a wood burning stove.
Yes my friend. It’s bad.
Blossom end rot I water with milk every two days and it works for me as it’s caused by a calcium deficiency… Tomatoes are calcium and magnesium whores, lil milk and sprinkle of Epsom salt is their Starbucks lol ..
also, your leaves are wet. only water the base of the plant do not get the plant wet or you will get fungal infection
Fat booty
Get CalMag
Blossom end rot. Usually happens due to a lack of calcium.
Do not bother putting crushed egg shells around them. It takes too long to for the calcium to become available to the plants.
Work some fertilizer into the soil. I had the same problem early in the season with my container grown tomatoes (the nutrients leach out much faster in containers) & used some Dr. Earth’s tomato & vegetable fertilizer. Within a couple of weeks the foliage was much greener (still not a green as the ones in my raised beds) and no more blossom end rot.
Pull those tomatoes off & pitch them.
Not good
i crush up some tums and add to a spray bottle, and spritz the plants before and after heavy rains, also go around and knock off blossom from bottom of tomatoes once they start forming, so it can hold any moisture to the bottom
You can use bush doctor Cal-mag to weed weekly. On Amazon. Also you can dry egg shells, crush them up and put them in the pot for calcium. When you water make sure it’s not soaked/soggy
You can still let those ripen, cut away the bad parts and save seeds from the good parts, so they aren’t a total loss!
Those all have BER. Pick them off. Might need to spray them with Stop Rot or something drastic.
Well it sure as shit ain’t good
Oh yeah. Cut em off, they’re toast.
Only if you were wanting to eat them
You need to spray chelated calcium on the plants
Yes
I don’t think anyone has said this yet, but sometimes you can salvage a tomato that has a little BER on it, but not those ones – so cut them off now, and let your plant focus on producing new ones while you apply whatever fix.
Yeah