Fix Blossom End Rot Easily!

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Kiss Blossom End Rot Goodbye! Nothing is worse than growing a crop 95% of the way to harvest only to have the fruit ruined in the final hour. Enter, Blossom End Rot.
I very misunderstood affliction with numerous home remedies to fix...but honestly, it all comes down to moisture, despite what you may have heard.
So today, let's fix our Blossom End Rot problems once and for all and make sure our harvests aren't ruined at the last minute.
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@TheRipeTomatoFarms 11 месяцев назад

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@sandyhayden-bristow1382 11 месяцев назад

I knew nothing about BER, so thank you for this video. I've had issues in previous years and now suspect it might well have been BER. Forewarned is fore-armed.

@TheRipeTomatoFarms 11 месяцев назад

No messin' with BER for you now sandy! 🙂

@c2max99 11 месяцев назад

I struggled with that this year on all my tomato plants. Maybe I also planted too many in one raised bed. Thank you for this timely video!

@TheRipeTomatoFarms 11 месяцев назад

Great point...too many can compete for limited calcium...or more importantly, limited water to TRANSPORT the calcium. You got this though...you know the fix! 🙂

@HealyMeans 11 месяцев назад

hi 🤗 i definitely appreciate your videos and often re-watch specific one based on what im doing in my garden at the time. tfs

@TheRipeTomatoFarms 11 месяцев назад

Thanks! Appreciate the support! 🙂

@jackielambert7980 11 месяцев назад

Yup! Have me a folder in video library with lots of your vids. Thanx for the good info!

@patriciatinkey2677 11 месяцев назад

Thanks again, Jeff! For the 1st time, I had blossom end rot on my bell peppers this July! I had seen it on other folks tomatoes, but hadn't had any problems with it before now. Your information should help avoid it on the next set. We had WAY too much water for a week, & the normal drainage couldn't keep up. Some plants died!

@OneShot-kh2ft 11 месяцев назад

Love you please keep making vids I’m a BAS ASS gardener because of you

@TheRipeTomatoFarms 11 месяцев назад

100% will do!! 🙂

@belindadunne4312 11 месяцев назад

Wow, this is incredibly educational, useful, and enlightening information about BER. Thank you very much. 👍🏻

@TheRipeTomatoFarms 11 месяцев назад

Thanks belinda, appreciate it! 🙂

@CoconutbuttA 11 месяцев назад

Thank you this is VERY helpful!! 🤗

@TheRipeTomatoFarms 11 месяцев назад

Cheers, thanks for watching. 🙂

@cut-- 11 месяцев назад

Thanks Jeff. I want to get ahead of this, this year. I'm Maine zone 5a and my toms don't ripen until late summer, and fall and I struggle with this. Our rain and foggy mornings produce so much moisture. I'm going to add some calcium and not overthink it! 😉

@TheRipeTomatoFarms 11 месяцев назад

I think you'll be good. Just watch the early fruit, they tell you everything.

@marcob1729 11 месяцев назад

Unless you're using native soil, it really still could be moisture. Have you checked 4+ inches down into the soil? Granted it's southern Maine, but every time I've grown something in the state, it's still needed regular watering

@cut-- 11 месяцев назад

@@marcob1729 I live in midcoast Maine. I live on the side of a hill with a the St. George river in the valley. Every morning the moisture comes and soaks everything. I Have 1 foot raised beds over a super weed barrier which holds a lot of moisture. I asked about "tacky straw" which might even out the moisture but I didn't hear back from anyone about what it is. The weather in Maine varies so much. Union is different from Rockland is different from Augusta and so on.

@ilricettario 11 месяцев назад

Excellent video, really helpful. Thanks.

@TheRipeTomatoFarms 11 месяцев назад

Hey thanks, happy to help! 🙂

@lookanabeauti9386 11 месяцев назад

Great job explaining, thank you!

@TheRipeTomatoFarms 11 месяцев назад

Cheers, thanks so much for watching!

@TheeRustyCage 11 месяцев назад

BER has taken every single one of my yellow squash this year. Thanks for the tips!

@TheRipeTomatoFarms 11 месяцев назад

Ugghh...sorry to hear that!

@threewaysdivided7143 11 месяцев назад

Super helpful to know! I had an issue with zucchinis last year that I misdiagnosed as possible BER (having watched your videos on them I now realize it was likely that the plants were suffering from lack of airflow and mildew due to the container I was using) but it's reassuring to know that a lot of my standard garden practices (composting egg-shells to add to soil calcium, mulching, deep biweekly waterings) probably cover the preventative steps. We're in for a rough summer in my climate zone so let's see how the container tomato trellis does this year.

@TheRipeTomatoFarms 11 месяцев назад

Thanks! Zukes can get even trickier than that because their pollination problems manifest EXACTLY like blossom end rot! Ughhh

@threewaysdivided7143 11 месяцев назад

@@TheRipeTomatoFarms Oh Absolutely. My experimental containter zukes were a temperamental bunch - my climate band (subtropics) is probably a bit outside their ideal climate zone so they were not very forgiving of other mistakes with the timing and bed setup. Got a lot of pollen flowers but they refused to hold any fruiting flowers - pretty clear dummy-spit from them over the conditions.

@Leon-en9il 10 месяцев назад

Are you Canadian sir?- love what you do . If you are Canadian I was wondering how long I have to get these tomatoes to turn reddish .

@marcob1729 11 месяцев назад

We tackled BER in a two step program: 1. Water every other day, and be consistent about it 2. Stop growing heirloom Romas

@TheRipeTomatoFarms 11 месяцев назад

LOL...the dang Romas....! :-)

@Minionz 11 месяцев назад

How do you determine how often to water plants/Tomatoes? In southern Texas its often 90-104*F, even in June. Some places say to water twice a day due to these conditions. Seems hard to gauge watering due to the immense heat conditions.

@MB-co6qj 11 месяцев назад

If you water deeply in the evening/ morning, you can check when the plants start to droop and go off of that. Use mulch to prevent evaporation.

@TheRipeTomatoFarms 11 месяцев назад

Deep deep watering in the morning should allow you to water far less. Mulch and shade cloth will help as well.

@TheRipeTomatoFarms 11 месяцев назад

@@MB-co6qj Exactly.

@tammyohlsson7966 11 месяцев назад

I’m in SE TX, I pulled all my tomatoes in early July. It’s too hot and way to dry. No rain in over 2 months, temps over 100 for days. Started new ones that just sprouted. Replant in a few weeks. Growing tomatoes in this brutal heat is almost impossible. Blessings!

@TheRipeTomatoFarms 11 месяцев назад

@@tammyohlsson7966 sometimes mother nature just makes it too hard to fight against....I hear you tammy.

@rafia.k 5 месяцев назад

Great 👍

@MyFavoriteColorIsBLUE 11 месяцев назад

So, can you just trim off the bad spot without any flavor loss? Thanks Jeff

@TheRipeTomatoFarms 11 месяцев назад

Oh yeah, perfectly edible...just cut off the bad parts!

@jackielambert7980 11 месяцев назад

Been wondering the same thing for a while. Good to know, thanx!

@TheRipeTomatoFarms 11 месяцев назад

@@jackielambert7980 Yup, good for those BIG ones with just a tiny bad spot!

@rulerofthelight 11 месяцев назад

Low Ph is a hugh culprit for BER.

@TheRipeTomatoFarms 11 месяцев назад

So true. Any extreme pH actually.

@rulerofthelight 11 месяцев назад

@TheRipeTomatoFarms no, not really... Calcium starts being bound up at about ph6.0> , where the opposite calcium doesn't get bound up until about ph 9.0

@heliocunha1147 2 месяца назад

I heard that you should remove the first flowers to allow plant to focus on growing. Do you agree?

@TheRipeTomatoFarms 2 месяца назад

Depends on the variety of tomato, the length of your growing season, how much of a head start you have, etc etc.....I generally don't bother though.

@mdo609 11 месяцев назад

Your tomato plant that has BER looks like a San Marzano. Perhaps they're more susceptible to BER? The only tomato plant among the 6 that I'm planting this year that has BER is also a San Marzano.

@lisagorska7389 11 месяцев назад

We planted some this year and got BER, but we ended up not doing anything about it and after the first couple of batches the tomatoes turned perfect 🤷🏻‍♀️

@lovegoesforth3183 11 месяцев назад

Ok so after watching this video, I realize my mistake growing tomatoes last year was two fold: I under watered, I did inconsistent watering and I over fertilized. I tried to fix it with lime and calcium and it didn’t help one bit. This year I used a product called Bonide and haven’t seen any problems. Having said that, I also added soaking hoses for my watering, and I was very consistent as well. So Bonide or proper watering? Next year, I’ll experiment with both ways and see what happens. 😅

@MB-co6qj 11 месяцев назад

Watering almost 100% sure

@keitho3133 11 месяцев назад

Sounds like you figured it out, but for anyone else: It takes lime a long time to break down meaningfully. If you discover a calcium deficiency with plants that are already fruiting you should add a product that acts faster. If you are going to use lime put it down when you sow the seeds or transplant your starts.

@TheRipeTomatoFarms 11 месяцев назад

Most likely proper watering. If you can do an A/B test next year, you'll know for sure. Best of luck! 🙂

@TheRipeTomatoFarms 11 месяцев назад

@@MB-co6qj Yup.

@TheRipeTomatoFarms 11 месяцев назад

@@keitho3133 Very true keith!

@ellenorbjornsdottir1166 11 месяцев назад

So drought will cause BER, by way of lacking calcium, but supplementing calcium usually won't help because the issue is the water.

@TheRipeTomatoFarms 11 месяцев назад

Correct. You can have a soil SATURATED with calcium.....but without the water at key times to get it to the right cells, you can STILL get Blossom End Rot.

@MrSBGames 11 месяцев назад

Are there certain varieties that get it more than others? My San Marzano seems to always get it, no matter what I do to try and prevent it. Other varieties nearby seem to escape it

@TheRipeTomatoFarms 11 месяцев назад

Yup, 100%. Roma types are HIGHLY susceptible to it.

@itsjustjoe3790 11 месяцев назад

Can you use unopened peritoneal dialysis fluid in a garden? I hear you can but not sure

@TheRipeTomatoFarms 11 месяцев назад

As long as there's no regulations where you live you can use it...it won't harm your plants.

@TheRexona1986 11 месяцев назад

What about overwattering ?

@TheRipeTomatoFarms 11 месяцев назад

Yup, that can waterlog roots, make the soil anaerobic, and even flush the soil of nutrients!

@jeanninemcwhorter919 7 дней назад

So what did you treat it with? Fish emulsion?

@AndyCzyzewski 11 месяцев назад

I've had BER on ALL of my 25 tomato plants, planted in 2 different locations, all planted in the ground. This is in the UK which has drowned in rain during July and very little consistent sun. I've also fitted irrigation pipes, so it wasn't a lack of water. This year, I've planted all the plants much deeper than last year. So only conclusion I can come up with is a lack of sun, if that is such a thing with BER? I'm gutted after all that work growing 25 plants and 8 different types.

@TheRipeTomatoFarms 11 месяцев назад

Lack of any growing parameter could likely cause deficiencies and lead to BER. Some are WAY more common than others.

@MrSBGames 11 месяцев назад

Too much rain can also cause BER as the plants are literally drowning 👍

@johnharrison9954 11 месяцев назад

Good video. Just wanted to add that this BER occurs most often in container grown tomatoes...especially Roma tomatoes. If you have a swimming pool, then you've won the lottery! Just add a tbsp of granular calcium to a 2 litre water container and feed each plant once every 2 weeks. If your leaves start turning 'yellowish' cut back on the calcium.

@TheRipeTomatoFarms 11 месяцев назад

Great points john! 🙂

@chrisbelvedere6653 11 дней назад

Thanks for that I'm definitely gonna give that a try.

@lakerdigital 3 дня назад

Subbed.

@TheRipeTomatoFarms 2 дня назад

Thanks for the support!

@thehazelnutspread 11 месяцев назад

Do you know of DIY tests that we can use. There is no way that I'm going to send soil samples to some lab every year.

@TheRipeTomatoFarms 11 месяцев назад

For Calcium? Its highly unlikely your soil is missing any. I would just dose with egg shells every couple of years and concentrate more on the watering.

@summerw.1425 11 месяцев назад

Unfortunately there's nothing that can be done about the BER I'm getting. It's only good sunny weather maybe 2 days a week if I'm lucky. If it's not raining like crazy, it's super cloudy. I'm 100% sure that I'll get less than half of the tomatoes I planted and that number is declining every day. Looking out the window right now and just watching my tomatoes drowning and rotting away is a real bummer.

@TheRipeTomatoFarms 11 месяцев назад

Ugghhhh.... So sorry to hear that. Can you up the drainage maybe?

@summerw.1425 11 месяцев назад

@@TheRipeTomatoFarms they're in grow bags on my balcony and are just too large to bring into my apt. I have already had a full grown zuccini and squash plant go through an entire life cycle and everything rotted except for a single zuccini. I've come to the conclusion that I don't think gardening is possible where I live. It just rains too much to grow anything edible 🥺

@AmberExista Месяц назад

My brain: Did he do all the wrong things to certain plants just to produce the blossom end rot for this video? :D

@TheRipeTomatoFarms Месяц назад

He did Amber....he did. LOL...all in the name of YouT......er...science!

@Jane_1776 11 месяцев назад

Can i still use the tomato with BER?

@roottrackerzbyyaira 11 месяцев назад

Yes

@EvelynBlandino 11 месяцев назад

I think you can just cut off the bag part.

@roottrackerzbyyaira 11 месяцев назад

@@EvelynBlandino exactly

@TheRipeTomatoFarms 11 месяцев назад

Definitely Jane....that's the beauty, its just physical damage. Cut the bad parts off, the rest is good to eat!

@Jane_1776 11 месяцев назад

@@TheRipeTomatoFarms thanks 👍

@brendaglenn4671 11 месяцев назад

So I’ve now found two tomatoes with BER. Now what? No answer to what to do if the problem has already started

@TheRipeTomatoFarms 11 месяцев назад

Because the answer is exactly the same. BER is NOT contagious. So once some fruit get it, your next course of action is to correct the NEXT fruit....which is what the entire video was about. There is NO treatment for Blossom End Rot. It can't be reversed, only prevented. So if you have a couple with it, pull them and then concentrate on the subsequent fruit.

@TK-xy3fm 11 месяцев назад

I just pick all the bad ones off powdered milk then I mix up powdered milk port at the base of the plant problem solved

@TheRipeTomatoFarms 11 месяцев назад

Awesome, keep doing what's working for you

@wesleybullock814 11 месяцев назад

Crushed egg shells around the stem... Tomatoes love it

@TheRipeTomatoFarms 11 месяцев назад

Yup, always good for the soil!

@Basementbuds420 11 месяцев назад

Or freaking add dolomite lime

@TheRipeTomatoFarms 11 месяцев назад

Except that it's rarely a soil calcium deficiency AND dolomite changes your pH like crazy

@Basementbuds420 11 месяцев назад

All I can say is I got 50 tomatoes plants all bigger than 6 feet no blossom end rot all organic

@Basementbuds420 11 месяцев назад

And 6 varieties

@TheRipeTomatoFarms 11 месяцев назад

@@Basementbuds420 Awesome, keep doing what works. Why fix what isn't broken? Little story though...I had a line of 15 determinate bush-types all supplied with dolomite and fortified with calcium. Across the path, literally 30 inches, an identical row without any extra calcium, but same base soil. The dolomite ones were all perfect, huge, zero issues. Guess what....so were the other ones. If I only did one row, one would ASSUME that the dolomite grew superior plants and it was the CAUSE.....when in reality, it can often have zero effect and you would have simply grown epic tomatoes anyways because your watering was on point.

@Basementbuds420 11 месяцев назад

Period never seen blossoms end rot ever

@TheRipeTomatoFarms 11 месяцев назад

Cool, congrats.

@eyeYQ2 11 месяцев назад

@@TheRipeTomatoFarms LOL ; )

@misstlc7136 11 месяцев назад

Wow. That's amazing

@vetgirl71 11 месяцев назад

Good for you, then why are u watching this video since it irrelevant regarding your perfect tomato?!! 🙄

@Basementbuds420 11 месяцев назад

Dude easy fix buy nectar from gods liquid calcium 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅never again

@TheRipeTomatoFarms 11 месяцев назад

It's not a lack of calcium... It's Intermittent drought on purpose.... As per tomorrow's video

@Basementbuds420 11 месяцев назад

OK than just water more its been a dry summer here but I watered everything everyday gallons

@kaylakitty3814 11 месяцев назад

@@Basementbuds420 It’s wonderful that you do not have problems with Blossom End Rot. Unfortunately, not everyone is that lucky. Suggestions like just add more calcium or water more often are not applicable to all situations, environments and climates. Changes in weather over time also plays a huge role, too.

@TheRipeTomatoFarms 11 месяцев назад

@@kaylakitty3814 oh wait, you mean not everyone's variables and growing conditions are the EXACT same and it makes sense to understand the cause and effect of certain conditions so you can prevent it in the future? Well waddya know.... ha ha!🙂 Thanks for being the voice of reason kayla, hope you're year is going great!