Tomato and Vegetable Blossom End Rot Treatments: What It Is, Two Ways to Fix It, What Doesn't Work 

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Wise and purposeful use is a good thing with non-organics.

Drop some lime not too in your garden as it is done for the winter. I will be doing a video on wood ash soon for calcium Get your Fall Garden Seeds & Spring Seed Starting Supplies at... Please Visit The Rusted Garden Seed & Garden Shop: www.therustedgarden.com

I agree!

I love the calcium nitrate that is why I started selling it. There are places for compost, organic and chemical ferts depending on ones location, plant and need. Use them wisely for success. Glad it helped.

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It helps. Prevention is best. Just keep it steady and dont over do it. More isnt always better. Good luck.

how did you apply it to the roots?

@@jonmcclane4946 just to the base of the plant, not to the leaves, this is called foliar spray.

What is CalMag powder? I need to look in to my pantry too. Please advice Danny. Thanks

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Great tips. I have been spraying all plants this year with 8 ounces per gallon to check for safety. Please subscribe if you have a chance (Thanks!) As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualified purchases. Check out my Amazon Storefront for garden lights, seed starting supplies, fertilizer, pest management, books and more! www.amazon.com/shop/garypilarchiktherustedgarden Please visit The Rusted Garden Seed & Garden Shop for your fabric pots, fall & spring seeds, seed starting supplies, peppermint oil, neem oil, TRG merchandise, and more at www.therustedgarden.com Check out my new gardening PODCAST Gardening Coast2Coast at gardeningcoast2coast.net with CaliKim. Please subscribe as it really helps me in making videos.

I agree. I researched the heck out of Sevin and thats why i use it for emergencies and target use, like for vine borers.

Calcium Carbonate in tums!

Hey Angela dealing with this now for my tomatoes, how many tums should you use in a gallons worth of water?

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All tomatoes? Or Roma Type? Romas tend to get it more. So if you put in calcium, that should be enough. Something might be locking it out from your plants. Maybe get a soil test. Good luck. Please subscribe as it really helps me & please visit The Rusted Garden Seed & Garden Shop for your fabric pots, fall & spring seeds, seed starting supplies, peppermint oil, neem oil, TRG merchandise, and more at www.therustedgarden.com As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualified purchases. Check out my Amazon Storefront for garden lights, seed starting supplies, fertilizer, pest management, books and more! www.amazon.com/shop/garypilarchiktherustedgarden Check out my new gardening PODCAST Gardening Coast2Coast at gardeningcoast2coast.net with CaliKim.

@@THERUSTEDGARDEN All other types. mainly Early girls and Better Bush. Thanks for your reply. Will check out your site on Amazon and more videos👍

So if it is on all plants.... I suggest calcium nitrate. I sell it at my shop. It makes like 10 gallons. It is what you would buy in a spray bottle for blossom end rot that costs like $9 a bottle. We sell it in powdered form for like $13. You would need a spray bottle. Im not trying to sell you but suggest a water soluble form of calcium that you can put on the leaves. However, if it doesnt work, I really think something in you soil is locking out calcium to your plants.

@@THERUSTEDGARDEN Ok thanks. just got some garden lime like in your video. I get your point about the spray on leaves technique. Transplanting tomorrow. will update on progress. 👍

Well now you know. Excellent idea to have another round of tomatoes growing.

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Glad to help.

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@@THERUSTEDGARDEN I ordered peppermint and neem oil from you a few months back! Working like a charm!

Thanks. Good to know. I know I am a bit more liberal with the chemical salts but find minimal use along with regular compost and organic ferts like bone meal and blood meal seem to work. I am more curious about how calcium magnesium acetate could form. I was wondering why snow doesnt stick to my raised bed soil. Appreciated.

Gary Pilarchik I mean it isn't likely because it is more likely to occur in a lab, but in theory it could. I like that you are offering so many options for people to fix their problems though. I don't think enough people do it and thank you for adding that egg shells won't fix the problem right away... it drives me nuts the "pinterest" myths out there.

Hey I was just looking up bone meal trying to figure out how much Ca is readily available for something like emergency BER. I saw a product called liquid bone meal that states it has immediate calcium available. Basically it is really fine grinding of bone meal. Do you have any thoughts on it. What I researched is coarsely ground bone meal take a long time to break down, as you get to a finer pulverization, the Ca is much more available. Of course now I cant determine the grinding of what I use. Just curious. I am looking into purchasing 50 pounds bags of bone and blood meal for my gardens when I move. Trying to learn more about them.

Gary Pilarchik bone meal does have readily absorbing calcium but not much. The best form of readily available calcium is called fast acting lime. It is lime that is very loosely held to it's carbon molecules. It breaks down even quicker in the presence of soil bacteria. But it is important to not add too much or it can upset soil pH. That is why personally I use gypsum in my soil. It takes a little longer than lime does, but if you get micronized gypsum (or make it yourself) the particle size makes all the difference in the availability and absorption time.

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It should work. Watering is key too.

+Gary Pilarchik (The Rusted Garden) roughly how long will this provide calcium for before it needs a top dressing of additional calcium?

A massive slurry should be good for the year.

+Gary Pilarchik (The Rusted Garden) a quick update... my container tomatoes are BER free. I have at least 15 healthy looking tomatoes currently growing. thanks for the tip.

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Glad help. Very cool t have a tunnel too.

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It is on the way. Good luck.

Just 1x a year at most. if you toss a handful of line in, at planting they should be fine. Check out my new Amazon Influencer's Shop. Anything you buy on Amazon helps The Rusted Garden when using my link. Ill be putting what I use in videos there for 2019. It is all set up by categories. Thanks. www.amazon.com/shop/garypilarchiktherustedgarden

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Just 1x will get you the calcium so now is good. Even watering is the key. Please visit, The Rusted Garden Seed & Garden Shop: www.therustedgarden.com/ - Seeds, Starting Supplies, Neem Oil, Peppermint & Other Oils, Calcium Nitrate & More

Just one of either will work. Even watering is the key. And if the romas get it, stop growing them. THEY ARE the only tomato that seems most susceptible to it. Good luck. Please Visit The Rusted Garden Seed & Garden Shop: www.therustedgarden.com/ - Seeds, Starting Supplies, Neem Oil, Peppermint & Other Oils, Calcium Nitrate & More.

@@THERUSTEDGARDEN Thanks for your reply. I am honored!

Hopefully you don't have to use it.

Gary Pilarchik should we wait to see if any tomatoes get BER or is it okay to water it with the solution just in case. f.y.i i absolutely love your videos!! you made me get into Gardening, this is my first year and I'm so glad i have you to trust and learn from! Dont stop being awesome!

That is a great way to do it. I like the cost savings by working around buying premade product.

Good luck.

Good luck

I don't. I don't have the room. Next year I am cutting back on tomatoes and might grow a few. I do have some cantalop[es going right now,

If the wilt is bacterial wilt, there is nothing you can do.

Gary Pilarchik (The Rusted Garden) I'm sorry I deleted my comment. Now I'm making. The truth. blossom end rot is due to acidic soil the moisture from the water on the bottom of your tomatoes. Calcium is good. It helps the plant to absorb nitrogen. To create leaves to shelter the tomatoes. from intense sunlight. So when you water it doesn't split theTomatoes open. Cracked. I made a better comment and RU-vid deleted it before I can even submit it..

My bad mouth comment was altered and was not what I meant to say I'm sorry. I deleted it.

I use pounds of calcium nitrate with my tomatoes plants. thay have never looked as good as ever in the past. out of hundreds of tomatoes I've gotten 3 with blossom end rot even with hordes of calcium. and I've never been inconsistent in watering always keep the soil soaked!

I've suggested to myself. that you have a lot.I can learn from!

Are you making calcium nitrate or are you actually making nitrocalcite? If so wouldn't it in fact be an organic fertilizer like bat guano which contains high levels of nitrocalcite because of limestone coming in contact with bat feces? Or am I misreading into this.

Brain cramp. It is calcium nitrate not copper nitrate. The acid creates the copper compound copper sulfate used in the Bordeaux mix. Granted the mixers don't have to use acid but the compound they use is created. General point is some products deemed organic and synthesized by people for components. Copper sulfate is made with sulfuric acid and copper.

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Yeah it is weird when all and all the population of tomatoes do well. I would give it one dose of lime and thats about all you can do. I sell calcium nitrate on my seed shop. It is what is used to make the calcium sprays you pay a lot for in the bottle but you can make your own. You just spray the tomato leaves and they get calcium Please visit my seed shop www.therustedgarden.com for Neem Oil, Peppermint & Rosemary Oil for pest and disease management. Calcium Nitrate for Blossom End Rot and for Seeds and Seed Starting Supplies. Thanks so much!

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Gary Pilarchik I got the pepper plant when it was about a foot tall from Home Depot it is now 4 foot tall and in a 5-gallon container. the leaves feel a little dry to the touch and a little thin but the soil is moist and not drenched. and there was some wrinkly looking leaves as well that felt almost like normal leaves. plus I use a granule fertilizer on it every two weeks. I did not let the pepper go to dry at any point. sorry about the grammar mistakes I am on my phone

Just spray on the leaves, not a gallon.

Good luck

Milk probably has some. ES has magnesium which is involved. But typically you dont have to over use it. 1x a month. Flower Box & Container Gardening Series Playlist ru-vid.com/group/PLMsTQWKi63SSwiFPke11QQw7SrcajtlVR

​@@THERUSTEDGARDEN Thanks again Gary. I am enjoying your Gardening Series of instructional videos. They are well presented and loaded with useful information. I will also be going to you to purchase some Calcium Nitrate as well as more Neem oil in the not too distant future - my garden (year 2 now) gets larger every year. I've tested my soil using an over the counter soil testing kit, and my PH is 7.5 (probably a bit higher but the limitations of the test get in the way of a more precise value). Nitrogen though is probably accurate with a reading of "adequate" because it's a sandy soil and I'm using a soil that has enjoyed probably about 100 tons of composted horse manure over a several year period - without growing anything. And horse manure does not generally contain high levels of nitrogen... Potassium and Phosphorus are in "surplus." The test however, does not tell me if I have a calcium shortage (much less a magnesium shortage). I suspect based upon the performance of my garden last year (as well as earlier in the gardening cycle right now), that my soil may be low in calcium...end rot on my early zuchini plants (could be as you say, incomplete pollination too) as well as tomato branches breaking last year - before there was even tomatoes...I have since put a wire cylinder around my tomato plants to support the branches - with options for adding additional wider, wire cylinders - the tomatoes here grow very well and the plants become very large - like bushes! And I believe that last year, some of my tomatoes did also get BER... My apologies for the long message...Last thing I wanted to say - I also had a cucumber beetle problem this year, and it took about a month to get rid of the problem because I bought the wrong kind of Neem oil. Now, the pests are under control, but the damage was done. Most of my plants have recovered but a couple of my squashes are stunted with what I think is leaf mosaic virus - from the beetles...unless it's a calcium shortage also...if leaf virus, I wonder if additional calcium might help them recover?

I'm sure Gary can provide you with a more detailed reply, but if you've got squash mosaic virus in your squashes, then it probably depends on the genetic strength of the plant. It may or may not be able to grow its way out of the problem. I suspect that mosaic virus looks like a nutrient deficiency because the virus ends up causing a nutrient deficiency... Gary most like knows one way or the other.

​@@rodhug3757 Thanks for the comments. A few days ago now, I made a mix of a cup of milk, a gallon of water, and a tablespoon of Epsom Salt. I then poured this around the base of the squash plant in the worst condition...yellowing (yellow blotches amid bright green healthy leaf tissue) and curling leaves and what looks like tiny burned areas around the edges of some of the new leaves... A few days later, some of the yellow areas have turned green and there are even a few new leaves coming out that are not curling up - where as before all the new leaves coming out were curling up like potato chips. On another squash plant with the same issues, I just made an Epsom salt and water solution and poured it around the base of the plant. It too may be getting better - it has some new leaves coming too, and for the first time, they are not curling up. I've been attempting to establish whether the problem is a lack of Calcium or a lack of Magnesium...since I've read that Magnesium helps plants absorb calcium...perhaps the calcium is there, but the plants are having trouble extracting it from the soil? I will wait a few more days to see if they both (or just one) improves...I also have back up squashes to replace them. If the original squashes recover, I will have double this type of squash - Waltham Butternut...my favorite!

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Either actually. The slurry should just be used 1x and I do that for the mid season emergency on the roots but don't use it on leaves. The eggs shells can be a foliar feed. Those are organic but I sell calcium nitrated on my seed shop. It is 100% the best and fastest. Foliar feed and and root drench. Nothing but free calcium. It is made by reacting calcium carbonate and nitric acid. Just like eggshell and vinegar but not classified organic. I just give options for people as they like to do different things. Only one choice is needed though.Please check out my seed and garden shop at www.therustedgarden.com

Gary, thank you for the quick response! So if I understand you correctly, I should do both a root drench and foliage spray. Root drench with a lime slurry (as described in this video) and a foliage spray with either the eggshell/vinegar mix or calcium nitrate. Thanks again! My family will appreciate the rescued tomatoes.

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You only need the slurry 1 maybe 2 times After that its all about watering. You can find items I use or discuss in videos, by checking out my Amazon Storefront for fertilizer, pest management, shade cloth, seed starting supplies, books and more! at www.amazon.com/shop/garypilarchiktherustedgarden As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualified purchases. Please visit The Rusted Garden Seed & Garden Shop (My Shop) for your fabric pots, fall & spring seeds, seed starting supplies, peppermint oil, neem oil, TRG merchandise, and more at www.therustedgarden.com Please subscribe if you have a chance (Thanks!)

ROMAS get BER more than any other type. You really need a little calcium and once you covered getting it the pot, it is really about watering and the plant. Please Visit The Rusted Garden Seed & Garden Shop: www.therustedgarden.com/ - Seeds, Starting Supplies, Neem Oil, Peppermint & Other Oils, Calcium Nitrate & More.

I use wood ash every year. Its a good way to go, just dont over load it. LOL. Please subscribe if you have a chance (Thanks!) As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualified purchases. Check out my Amazon Storefront for garden lights, seed starting supplies, fertilizer, pest management, books and more! www.amazon.com/shop/garypilarchiktherustedgarden Please visit The Rusted Garden Seed & Garden Shop for your fabric pots, fall & spring seeds, seed starting supplies, peppermint oil, neem oil, TRG merchandise, and more at www.therustedgarden.com Check out my new gardening PODCAST Gardening Coast2Coast at gardeningcoast2coast.net with CaliKim. Please subscribe as it really helps me in making videos.

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It is good to spray regularly for prevention. You dont have to over do it.

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Glad it worked. Good to have support to via your success.

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It’s ok for the calcium nitrate to touch the the fruit?

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