Thread: Tomato disease
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Old 13-05-2004, 05:05 PM
 
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Default Tomato disease

In article . net,
Julie wrote:
To make a long story short my container tomatoes are ending up with cracked
bottoms or they end up being black. I sprayed with daconil this morning but
I am baffled.


Tomatoes already? Anyway, cracked bottoms probably means too much water.
Black bottoms sounds like blossom end rot which is usually a calcium
deficiency (made worse by too much water which leaches away the calcium
from the soil). Daconil -- a fungicide? Why?

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Steve