Re: Not blossom-end rot

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• Subject: Re: Not blossom-end rot
• From: K* K* <k*@home.com>
• Date: Sat, 07 Aug 1999 12:26:56 +0000
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the circular rings sound like sunscald.  Hopefully someone else can
comment on the splitting.  My beefsteaks do this.  I thought it was just
normal for the variety.  I also think I read somewhere that splitting
can occur with watering problems.  The tomatoes are fine to eat.  Just
cut of the sunscald.  If you're having super hot weather and the plants
are in full sun all day with not much leaf cover shading the fruits, try
erecting a very light shade cloth during the hottest part of the day. 
Hope this helps.  I had sunscald problems when I was just training my
tomatoes to 1 leader up vertically.  I now either cage them or train
with 2 or 3 leaders to provide more leaf cover for the ripening fruit.

Kim, zone 9b, so cal


Kristine Furner wrote:
> 
> Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
> 
> I've been reading the thread on BER and I have a related question.  After
> 2-3 weeks of very hot and humid weather with little rain, almost 50% of my
> tomatoes have begun either "splitting" their skins lengthwise, from top to
> bottom or showing circular rings around the top of the tomato near the
> stem.  This is occurring in both green and various stages of ripe tomatoes.
> 
> I tried to water as needed during this spell and plants themselves look
> healthy.  Does anyone know if the heat caused this or another factor and
> also whether or not it is okay to eat these tomatoes?  Also, it *seems*
> that the smaller tomatoes coming on are okay.
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Kristine, Zone 5b, SE Ohio
> Where it was finally only 88 degrees yesterday  :-}
> 
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