Veg Rotten tomatoes
- Thread starter Cag3db1rd
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I'm not sure what is causing that, but there have been reports from all over the country of people running in to that. You are definitely not alone. Mostly from store-bought produce, but some from home gardens. Some of the Youtubers like SouthernPrepper1 and Appalachia Homestead I have heard mention this. Combined with some reports of entire batches/packets of seeds not even sprouting I'm not very confident about most of the store bought stuff anymore. I don't know if it's the seeds themselves, some kind of fungus, or maybe even the sun doing something weird things.
SouthernBreeze
Has No Life - Lives on TB
Mine aren't rotting from the inside, but on the outside as soon as they ripen. I don't know what's causing this in mine, either. I thought it might be our hot summer sun, but even when I pick them early to ripen, they do the same thing. The tomatoes even looked deformed. I bought beefsteak tomato plants, and I think the plants were bad, or something.
It *could be* blossom end rot, although that more commonly shows some signs on the bottom of the fruit. Epsom salts as a foliar spray may help. But cut one open and look really close for tiny worms... the tomato pinworm will cause this.
Spraying the plants and fruit with Bt will prevent more damage.
Summerthyme
Spraying the plants and fruit with Bt will prevent more damage.
Summerthyme
Cag3db1rd
Paranoid Pagan
It's not blossom end rot. I fought that off earlier. This has no outward appearance.
I have had a rough time of getting seeds to sprout as well. I put in over a hundred carrots. Seeds were from Baker Creek. I maybe got a doxen to sprout. They never really thrived. Now, there are none despite daily watering and organic fertilizer. They should have been ready to harvest by now. Also, my new berry bushes all died even with watering, compost , mulching.
I have had a rough time of getting seeds to sprout as well. I put in over a hundred carrots. Seeds were from Baker Creek. I maybe got a doxen to sprout. They never really thrived. Now, there are none despite daily watering and organic fertilizer. They should have been ready to harvest by now. Also, my new berry bushes all died even with watering, compost , mulching.
There IS a form of blossom end rot that is internal only...
Summerthyme
Summerthyme
Martinhouse
Deceased
I think I remember my tomatoes having that internal blossom end rot, just one season, many yearss ago. Not sure what type of tomato it was.
What I thought even worse was when my cherry tomatoes had stem maggots. Once that happened, I never ate another cherry tomato again without cutting it at least in half first.
What I thought even worse was when my cherry tomatoes had stem maggots. Once that happened, I never ate another cherry tomato again without cutting it at least in half first.