Re: Blossom-end rot

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• Subject: Re: Blossom-end rot
• From: m* l* <m*@micron.net>
• Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1999 08:06:04 -0600
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At 08:23 AM 8/3/99 +0100, you wrote:
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>I think certain varieties are definitely more susceptible to blossom end
>rot. Some years ago, I shared my garden with a friend (she lived in the
>city at the time and had no room for a garden, and I was pregnant and
>didn't think I'd use all of my garden that season). She planted San Remo
>sauce tomatoes, while I planted Roma.  Her tomatoes had the worst case of
>BER I've ever seen, while mine were almost entirely free of it. They grew
>in the same soil, were watered the same, and fertilized the same. The only
>thing I can think of that might have been different was how they were
>treated as seedlings --perhaps hers got stressed early on and mine didn't.
>
>Judi
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>Judi Hammett
>Baltimore, Maryland USA
>judi@abs.net
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---$m

Judi, this surprises me. In my garden (in sw Idaho), Roma was the first
variety to succumb to disease or any malformation. I quit growing them
years ago because they weren't very good at best. Now you can buy them at
the supermarket in winter, if you're so disposed. You live in Chuck Wyatt's
city, (he's in Rosedale, anyway) where he grows and has acclimated about
400 varieties of open pollinated tomatoes. Why don't you at least try one
of his varieties? His website is at www.heirloomtomatoes.com  He charges $1
per packet of seeds. Margaret L


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