Persephone wrote in :

On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 20:39:54 -0500, "brsher"
wrote:

I'm growing some Big Boy and Better Boy tomatoes. They are just
starting to ripen, and most are still green. I'd say they are about
10-15 days late in ripening. However, some, that are still green, are
starting to split. It's not a complete split, but a ridge around one
side. Does anyone have any suggestions about curing this problem.
It's getting very hot here, but we had a big rain yesterday, and I
water them about every 4-5 days.

In my experience, splitting is due to overwatering. You don't say
where you are, but it sounds like the big rain + watering might have
done it.

I was taught that after tomatoes flower, you cut back on water, so
"strength" goes into fruit, not leaf/stem growth.

Opinions?

Persephone

I dunno. I have just small, generic tomatoes and we're not having a lot
of rain AT ALL and mine are splitting, too. I don't water my plants (no
outside water source) so they aren't getting anything other than natural
rainfall and the ground is hard and dry right now. We get a sphitz every
now and then but it doesn't even moisten the ground. Last fairly nice
rainfall was two weeks ago when my tomatoes were just hardly there.

(I'm in west central Indiana.)