tomato blooms falling off
 

I planted several varieties of tomato plants this year, 5 plants total.
I used Osomacote slow release fertilizer. All seem to do well, most are
not growing all that well, I think due to the cold spring. Anyway, one
plant has many blosoms, but as soon as the bloom wilts the blossom
falls off with no tomato left behind. The other plants have several
blooms but none have yet developed into a tomato. I do not think that I
over-fertilized because these plants are not tall, nor bushy, nor
yellowed. They seem to be non-fruit bearing?? I have tiny peppers and
tiny cucmbers forming but my tomato plants are going no where.

In article .com,
says...
:) I planted several varieties of tomato plants this year, 5 plants total.
:) I used Osomacote slow release fertilizer. All seem to do well, most are
:) not growing all that well, I think due to the cold spring. Anyway, one
:) plant has many blosoms, but as soon as the bloom wilts the blossom
:) falls off with no tomato left behind. The other plants have several
:) blooms but none have yet developed into a tomato. I do not think that I
:) over-fertilized because these plants are not tall, nor bushy, nor
:) yellowed. They seem to be non-fruit bearing?? I have tiny peppers and
:) tiny cucmbers forming but my tomato plants are going no where.
:)
:)

http://www.kdcomm.net/~tomato/Tomato/blossom.htm
--
Lar

to email....get rid of the BUGS

Nightime temperatures below 60?
That'll do it.

That is it then. Last night temp was in the 50's. Dam, I am not in love
90 degree days but I like tomatos more.

Blossom-end-rot is caused by a lack of calcium in the soil. The plant
however, can be doused or sprayed with calcium such as Dragon. This
should supply enough calcium to get you thru this season

John




On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 13:33:47 -0500, Lar
wrote:

In article .com,
says...
:) I planted several varieties of tomato plants this year, 5 plants total.
:) I used Osomacote slow release fertilizer. All seem to do well, most are
:) not growing all that well, I think due to the cold spring. Anyway, one
:) plant has many blosoms, but as soon as the bloom wilts the blossoms
:) falls off with no tomato left behind. The other plants have several
:) blooms but none have yet developed into a tomato. I do not think that I
:) over-fertilized because these plants are not tall, nor bushy, nor
:) yellowed. They seem to be non-fruit bearing?? I have tiny peppers and
:) tiny cucmbers forming but my tomato plants are going no where.
:)
:)

http://www.kdcomm.net/~tomato/Tomato/blossom.htm
--
Lar

to email....get rid of the BUGS

higgledy wrote:

That is it then. Last night temp was in the 50's. Dam, I am not in love
90 degree days but I like tomatos more.

D--n! I was seeing the same thing. Mebbe I should take the plants in
at night. :-(((((

--
Jean B.

Where is my mind. You don't have blossom end rot the blossom
is falling off. Sorry for the missinformation. How much rain have you
had. We have seen blossom fall off of some annuals this year and
some contribute the cause to all the rain that we have had....

John


On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 13:02:58 GMT, (John McKay)
wrote:

Blossom-end-rot is caused by a lack of calcium in the soil. The plant
however, can be doused or sprayed with calcium such as Dragon. This
should supply enough calcium to get you thru this season

John




On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 13:33:47 -0500, Lar
wrote:

In article .com,
says...
:) I planted several varieties of tomato plants this year, 5 plants total.
:) I used Osomacote slow release fertilizer. All seem to do well, most are
:) not growing all that well, I think due to the cold spring. Anyway, one
:) plant has many blosoms, but as soon as the bloom wilts the blossoms
:) falls off with no tomato left behind. The other plants have several
:) blooms but none have yet developed into a tomato. I do not think that I
:) over-fertilized because these plants are not tall, nor bushy, nor
:) yellowed. They seem to be non-fruit bearing?? I have tiny peppers and
:) tiny cucmbers forming but my tomato plants are going no where.
:)
:)

http://www.kdcomm.net/~tomato/Tomato/blossom.htm
--
Lar

to email....get rid of the BUGS

On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 13:02:58 GMT, (John
McKay) wrote in rec.gardens:

Blossom-end-rot is caused by a lack of calcium in the soil. The plant
however, can be doused or sprayed with calcium such as Dragon. This
should supply enough calcium to get you thru this season

John

BER is enough to give any sane person a headache. You are
correct about the calcium, but excess water is usually the
culprit! :-) See http://ianrpubs.unl.edu/horticulture/nf43.htm
tries to unravel this. It is a problem of poor calcium
distribution in the plant.
--
Gardening Zones
Canada Zone 5a
United States Zone 3a
Near Ottawa, Ontario

Try gently shaking the tomato plant, and also try "finger flicking" the
tomato blossoms. I do that in the late Spring and whether it works
better than doing nothing, who knows! Haven't killed a plant by doing
so (yet). Some varities just drop blossoms no matter what. I grow
some delicious (beefsteak) every year and have a ton of blossom drop,
just the way it is.

As to BER - many think that the belief that calcium deficincy being the
cause isn't true. NOT doing anything to a plant that has BER will
have the BER go away. Neighbor of mine usually has it every year
(plants very early), does nothing and the BER goes away on the later
tomatoes. PS - he had a soil test done and the calcium levels were on
the high range and oh did he have the BER on the early tomatoes (very
cold/wet Spring 3 years? back).

On 30 Jun 2005 19:06:32 -0700, wrote:

Try gently shaking the tomato plant, and also try "finger flicking" the
tomato blossoms. I do that in the late Spring and whether it works
better than doing nothing, who knows! Haven't killed a plant by doing
so (yet). Some varities just drop blossoms no matter what. I grow
some delicious (beefsteak) every year and have a ton of blossom drop,
just the way it is.

As to BER - many think that the belief that calcium deficincy being the
cause isn't true. NOT doing anything to a plant that has BER will
have the BER go away. Neighbor of mine usually has it every year
(plants very early), does nothing and the BER goes away on the later
tomatoes. PS - he had a soil test done and the calcium levels were on
the high range and oh did he have the BER on the early tomatoes (very
cold/wet Spring 3 years? back).

This whole blossom end rot business if vexing.

Two years ago, I had tomatoes out the kazoo; so many I had to re-learn
how to can.

Last year, I had BER out the kazoo. Beaucoup blossoms; zip tomatoes. I
was advised to buy blossom spray, applied it, with zilch results.

This year, I have so many tomatoes ripening, I'll have to can again.

Same varieties of seeds -- sent by an internet friend from Canada.

Same conditions -- I didn't change anything in the soil, nor
my watering pattern. (We did have heavier rains in So.Cal.
in "winter"/spring, but why would that matter?)

Bewildering, indeed.


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Aspasia