Solutions To Blossom End Rot In Tomatoes, etc

[@vetgirl71]

Thank you! 🙏🏾 beginner gardener this year , going to use your great advice! God bless ! 😊🙏🏾

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Cheers, thanks for watching!

[@rebeccazody1278]

You are my fav. You are the best teacher. I have 45 tomato plants and only one San Marzano plant has BER. I am going to spray today. Thank you.

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Thanks Rebecca, best of luck!! Fingers are crossed for massive tomato bounty!!

[@gardenerpete5232]

I've been growing tomatoes for over 40 years, mostly Heirloom. I grow 20 plants, 20 varieties, and try a couple new varieties each year. I've never had blossom end rot, till this year. I got San Marzano seeds last winter. They got BER. I liquified pelletized calcium a couple days ago and poured it around the roots. (7/18/22). I now see it continuing on more tomatoes. It never occurred to me to spray the leaves! Thank you for that idea! I'll spray tonight or tomorrow. Thank you for that excellent video! It turns out San Marzano is notorious for BET! (I'm in zone 7A, Lower NY. and we just had 3 days of MONSTOROUS Rain!! up to 4" in one day). :-) GardnerPete.

[@vickymarcon5612]

This year I'm seeing BER on my tomatoes, all varieties except cherry ones, and plants aren't growing as tall as last year. I put crushed egg shells all over my garden but likely too late, will have to spray leaves with calcium and pray it works to save ones that are still small. Last year all tomatoes were amazing, tall plants, big beautiful fruit!

[@anagomes3637]

I simply LOVE your videos! Thanks!

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Thanks so much for the support Ana!

[@SimplyGarden]

Thank you for the information. I always plant my tomatoes with a 1/4 cup of ground lime. That seems to work. I never knew that if your plants got tried out the fruit can get dried out. Keep up the good work and happy gardening!

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Definitely. Dolomite Lime is a life saver, especially if you're growing nightshades and squashes for $$. Thanks for sharing, love your channel!

[@neiler1970]

Nice delivery of info. I’m just suffering my first hit. I also have overs left in little pots that do fine. Several questions answered in one go. Thanks.

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Thanks Neiler. As I've been growing and visiting other gardens, intermittent watering and drying out is the major culprit of BER. Something to think about...

[@neiler1970]

Hey there. Thanks for the reply. Mine are growing outside in Ireland ( zone 9 for you guys) so cant really control watering, been drought conditions for a couple of weeks and that brought it on. Really interested in the cal/mag relationship. It’s interesting that they are chelated in human vit supplements.

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

@@neiler1970 that's interesting that the ones in your pots aren't experiencing the same issues. Are they using the same soil source?

[@danieltirb7477]

Thank you ,you always give great advice ,really Appreciate your help

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Cheers Daniel, thanks so much for watching!

[@Mary-had-a-lil-farm]

Excellent explanation!! Sheds light on this potentially difficult or perplexing problem. Thanks 😊. Got my first experience with that last year. Had tomatoes in a pot on the driveway. Didn’t put them in the ground ( which I always do) and slacked on keeping them watered well. Bam! Ugly tomatoes lol. This was great to help understand this more completely. I am a science girl and love talking cellular pathways lol.

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Definitely Mary! People always jump all over the calcium thing...but often it's simply intermittent moisture that's the culprit... Especially in container gardens where the pots can heat up and dry out FAST!

[@Mslove728]

Thank you so much for your video. I have been struggling with my Roma tomatoes. I will add some garden lime to the soil, and spray the plant with antacids/generic tums and water.

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Best of luck Pamela!

[@susyQ564]

Thank you from Canada

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Cheers!

[@AnnieFarmerFarm]

Thanks for sharing this info very useful!

[@SimplyGarden]

I'm glad you like my channel also. I see what looks like a trellis for growing something on it in the back ground. It reminds me a little of the trellis I made for Black rasberries to grow on. Just curious I guess.

[@chrisfrancis686]

My tomatoes are doing well. I have been pruning the suckers. What about the massive leaves that come out of the stem below the suckers? Can there be too much of this growth? Should they be pruned as well?

[@NICHOLSRETIREMENTEMPIRE]

Thank you for that explaination

[@jim8577]

Great Videos! You should contact "Two Family Homestead" and get on their Monday night live show. They are always looking for channels to have on. Might get your great videos out to more people,

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Thanks Jim!!! That would be fantastic and I will definitely inquire! I really appreciate it man.

[@yannip2083]

I use Alaska Fish Fertilizer for my tomato and pepper plants - Do I still need to buy calcium and magnesium for my tomato and pepper plants? So far, no blossom end rot yet, but I thought prevention is better than cure. Thank you so much.

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Hey Yanni, I've been finding that although Calcium is at the center of Blossom End Rot, our soils are normally loaded with it. The issue is watering and the TRANSPORT of that Calcium. So adding more rarely helps. Focus more on mulching, long, even waterings, and not letting the plants dry out.

[@yannip2083]

@@TheRipeTomatoFarms Thank you so much, Jeff, for sharing your smart thoughts! Greatly appreciated.

[@melissalan8105]

Hi Jeff, what can I do with Anthracnose in my tomatoes? Am I loosing all my green tomatoes now? Well all red one too

[@maurice0094]

Great video, I water my zucchini and tomatoes everyday and other day as they are in the same bed. A pretty good soaking actually. So far my tomatoes look good but zucchini are getting blossom end rot by about the 4-5 inch mark. The plant looks very healthy but the yield keeps rotting. What should I do? Been told to use crushed antacid, egg shells, epsom salt.

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Too much water. No plant wants watering every day. Your washing all the nutrients out of the soil.

[@maurice0094]

@@TheRipeTomatoFarms I meant every other day but okay I'll try cutting down watering and see how that goes. Thanks for the info.

[@mayravelez517]

I am experiencing it for the first time,

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Yeah.....its not the best thing Mayra....very disappointing sometimes. :-(

[@David-kg1hc]

It's been so damn hot I'm easter Washington state, no doubt I'm suffering from intermittent drout. Plus my fertilizer drains so fast. What would you recommend putting in the soil so it hold moisture longer?

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Same here David. Up the organic content... That holds the most moisture by weight.... And make sure to mulch!

[@David-kg1hc]

@@TheRipeTomatoFarms ohh shoot I didn't mulch at all this year!! Thanks man

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

@@David-kg1hc mulch is 100% necessary... Even in the best conditions! :-)

[@MissCarAndHerJoe]

We have hard water that’s high in calcium so I thought that would be great for preventing BER, but apparently not. Does that have anything to do with the structure of calcium in water being different from that in soil or is it more likely that I’m just needing to add or have too much of something else in the soil preventing uptake/absorption? Our water and soils in this area are alkaline with PH generally between 7-8 so I have amended with sulpher in the past…

[@OakKnobFarm]

Great video, I love the in-depth explanation. You get bonus points for mentioning cat-ions. So are the other macro nutrients (K,N,P) an-ions? I've heard the Epsom salts trick a million times too. Strange how misinformation can spread

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Thanks man! There's widely considered to be 9 essential macronutrients (Carbon, Oxygen, Hydrogen, Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Potassium, Sulfur, Magnesium, and Calcium. Sulfur, Magnesium, and Calcium are cations, but the COMPOUNDS they are available to plants might very well be negatively-charged. Take Nitrogen, which is a gas in its lone form (N2). It is completely unusable by plants. From the atmosphere, through many processes, Nitrogen makes its way to the soil as ammonium (or Nitrite/NH4+). Again, not always usable by plants. It is only when the Nitrites are converted to NITRATES (NO3-) that the full spectrum of Nitrogen is available to plants. So its very complex. But the two main competitors to Calcium are Magnesium and Sulfur, which is evident by where they sit on the Periodic Table. Most of it is way over my pay grade though, ha ha, and I am mostly going from memory from university, which was 19 years ago!

[@OakKnobFarm]

@@TheRipeTomatoFarms interesting that the nitrogen gets picked up in it's negativity charged state (NO3-). How about potassium? Do you remember? My last chem class was also at University.... But 25 years ago in my case ;)

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Potassium is a K+ if I remember correctly. In fact, when studying a soil's "cation exchange capacity", its often measured in Potassium storage. I used to know this stuff like the back of my hand, but that was ages ago. Let me dig out one of my soil bible textbooks and see what I can find/remember! :)

[@OakKnobFarm]

We didn't study soil chemistry in our class (I was headed to be an EE, so we focused more on industrial processes), so I'd be curious what you turn up. Fascinating stuff.

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

@@no-diggarden metals instead of....? Cations? Ugghh... No one is going to want "metals" in their soils! Lol

[@deb8416]

I used a calcium spray fir the leaves and had no luck. I lost all of my squash varieties and peppers and tomatoes.😢

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Sorry to hear that Deb. That's not good. If that's the case, it could be the intermittent watering that's the case. Very strange though, very strange.

[@deb8416]

Well, now that I watch your channel I'm keeping positive about my upcoming garden.

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

@@deb8416 you can do it. That's the best part about gardening... Everything is reversible. Plants WANT to live. And you can always be trying a different variety or different method... The sky really is the limit! Cheers!

[@deb8416]

@@TheRipeTomatoFarms do you have any suggestions about nice getting in the garden and eating the fruits before they're ready to be harvested or before I can get them?

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

@@deb8416 oh yeah.. Huge problem. Devastating and can wipe out entire gardens. The only way is traps. Keep the compost covered (they love to nest there) and then maybe a predator (cat or dog)! Uggghh.... Not fun!

[@mogeking56]

I just told my wife to sleep 🛌 on her left side and that blossom in rot stop coming back 🧌 it’s a wife thing seriously 😳