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I water daily because the plants suck up all the water during the
day.
They are not overwatered. I water just until I see a little seapage
from the bottom of the pots. Big plants, warm and breezy days mean
a
lot of transpiration.

You are using pots and you admit that these dry out daily. Either
take
on board the message the BER comes as a result of inconsistent
watering,
which is what you are doing by using pots, or start planting your
toms in the ground where they might have a fighting chance to avoid
BER.


I guess I am finding it hard to believe that these plants require such
a
delicate balance to thrive, or even do reasonably well.


You seem to be increasing the difficulty by looking at everything but
the
most obvious. Toms aren't all that delicate. They aren't as tough as
old
boots, but they also aren't very hard to grow if you live in a climate
where there is sufficient heat.

If you have 2 ft pots that dry out during the day, you have enough
heat.
Reread the thread. If you sort out your watering problems and then
still
have problems, that is the time to come back with questions about
additives or other problems etc.


I do not have a watering issue. None, zip, nada, zero. I bought a meter
some weeks back and I water when the pots "dry" out but do not get
"dried"
out. If the 2 times the leaves wilted a very little causd BER, then I
will
never grow tomatoes again.

Paul

Just for the sake of science, what do you think would happen, if you dug
a 2 cubic foot hole, and slid one of those bad boys into it? Could
things be worse?
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My soil is extremely hard, alkaline stuff. Almost like cement. It would
need a lot of TLC to make it tillable. Plus I don't have very much of it.
75% of my back yard is concrete. So really planters are my only reasonable
option.

So far my yellow pears are putting out nice clusters of very healthy fruit.
I just found a couple of worm damaged ones tonight but no BER. Same
happened last year. I am really thinking the Celebrity is just a
temperamental and needy little variety. I'll be trying patio come the end
of July. We have warm days and nights past September usually so I can
probably get a crop or two in before winter.

Paul