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RE: Blossom end rot

If you took such care supplying calcium to your tomatoes and they still got
blossom end rot then it is probably irregular watering that caused it. Wet
to dry, wet to dry. Don't be discouraged. The best of us still get it on
occasion.
Lorraine
ps. celebrity is our best tomato and does not get "ber" unless severely
stressed.




At 04:39 PM 7/21/97 -0400, you wrote:
>It's blossom end rot (BER) time, again.  You know, when the end of the
>tomato (and pepper) turns black and sinks in?  
>
>I thought that this year that I would prevent BER it by incorporating epsom
>salts (magnesium sulfate) into the soil at planting, and by making sure
>that the soil in the tomato and pepper bed had a good amount of calcium in
>the form of dolomitic lime.  I tend to think of BER as (largely) a divalent
>cation deficiency, and something that expresses itself mostly under drought
>stress.  
>
>And drought stress is what we are currently going through in sunny central
>PA, at least until TS Danny comes up the coast and dumps on us.  My lawn
>crunches when I walk across it to water the garden.  (And yes, I will
>finally put in a drip irrigation system in the garden for next season).  
>
>My first question to the group is: what varieties do you know to be
>BER-tolerant? I am growing Celebrity, Burpee's Supersteak, Sweet Chelsea,
>First Lady, and the BER responses by variety from my garden will be posted
>later this week.  Celebrity shows the worst BER response so far.  
>
>The second question is: does anyone have experience in preventing BER?  I
>now always amend my tomato bed with epsom salts and dolomite.  I started
>this when I began to have BER problems in the first year in a new garden
>spot or bed, and it seemed to help in subsequent years.  In 1997, however,
>I had to try new tomato varieties (I am ashamed to admit that I had to buy
>tomato seedlings from a local greenhouse rather than growing my own), and
>put them (again) in a new bed.  
>
>And then it quit raining.  
>I do water nightly (and deeply) when I am not traveling.  But when I go out
>of town for a week at a time ...
>
>Any advice?  
>
>
>
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