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I have a tiny garden, actually one bush tomato in a 10 gallon pot.
Well I'm fed up with the commercial tomatoes, year after year I get
nothing! This year instead of an indeterminate I went with a bush.
Getting rampant bottom rot, tomato turns black on bottom and works all
the way up, I added calcium as in crushed up tums, I fertilize with
special tomato fertilizer and have watered frequently. Its not too late
to get another already started tomato, any suggestions!

I remember as a kid tomatoes were easy and always good. What the heck can
I do! I want tomato this year!!!!!!

Next year I'm going back to Amish Heritage!!!!!!!

This may clear up on its own, but that doesn't seem likely since you
have a determinant tomato. Sounds like you're screwed. Being a
determinant tomato, and that it's producing fruit, it is setting all the
fruit that you are going to get now.

Do you have enough time to start another tomato? Is there a nursery near
you where you could get a Stupice or an Early Girl?

Where are you?

Let's try and figure out where you jumped the tracks here.

What tomato are you growing?
What is the potting soil?
What kind of fertilizer did you use?
Have you worked the soil in the pot since the tomato has been in it?
How warm is it there?
Does the pot itself get full sun (warmth of soil)?
You're using 4" pine bark mulch in the pot?
Blossom end rot can be caused by drought conditions, but it sounds as if
you may be over-watering, which would lead to cracked skins like you had
before.

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