AKA WHAT THE 🤬 IS HAPPENING TO MY TOMATOES
If you’ve grown tomatoes in soil, you’ve probably experienced this scenario before: You have a healthy-looking tomato plant, you have lots of beautiful little tomatoes growing, and then one day, you notice brown mushy spots forming on the underside of your precious fruit!
What is going wrong? Is the plant diseased? Have pests started feasting before you could? Has your neighbour’s garden envy escalated to garden sabotage? 😳
Thankfully the issue is not that serious. While the damage cannot be reversed on the affected fruit and it is destined for the compost, future damage can be avoided and you can still enjoy an abundant harvest.
Blossom end rot (BER) shows up on flowering and fruiting crops like tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers when your plant can’t access enough calcium to make strong cell walls and the cells at the far end of the fruit (the blossom end) start to collapse and die 💀🪦
Calcium deficiencies show up when there isn’t enough calcium in the soil to meet your plant’s needs, or when there is an environmental stressor that is limiting your plant’s ability to absorb nutrients (cool temperatures, over/under watering, and/or pH imbalance are the usual suspects).
To fix the problem, resolve any environmental stressors and feed your plant some calcium nitrate every 1-2 weeks. Better yet, don’t wait for BER to show up and give your plant calcium nitrate every 1-2 weeks to maintain healthy fruit production. Better still… pick up our 3 Part Masterblend Tomato Formula kit and say goodbye to nutrient deficiencies altogether! But be warned – your neighbour’s garden envy will grow too!
Happy Growing!
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Im going to try strawberries hydroponically. I guessing strawberries would prefer the tomato blend over the lettuce blend??