When growing tomatoes, What are the reasons tomatoes become rotted on the stem before they even fully mature?

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Also why do they sometimes get "cracks" around the top of the tomato where the tomato connects to the stem?

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Answer 1

Cracks in a tomato are usually caused by a period of dry weather followed by a period of heavy rain. During the dry weather the tomato stops expanding rapidly and the peel starts to lose its elasticity. When you get heavy rains after that and the tomato takes in a lot of that water the peel can't "stretch" so it cracks.

If they are rotting on the stem before they ripen it could be blossom end rot--a disease caused by water problems again but usually only when there is a calcium deficiency. You can treat them with a calcium solution you can buy at good Lawn & Garden Centers (Bonide has one called Rot Stop). You can get a longer term solution to the calcium deficiency by adding gypsum to the soil. Gypsum is a calcium based mineral. It not only adds calcium to the soil it makes water and air more able to penetrate the soil if it's got a lot of clay.

Answer 2

You may have blossom end rot. A black patch develops in the bottom of the tomato and will eventually take out the whole tomato. This is curable. The plant has a calcium deficiency which can be cured by working eggshells into the soil around the base of the plants...gets rid of slugs too. You can also buy regular calcium tablets, crush them and work them into the soil. There are costly sprays for this stuff but calcium tablets work and dont cost much. Some varities just come with cracks but usually this is caused by weather stress...to much rain followed by too little rain, etc. Also many tomatoes are ripe and not picked in a timely fashion. You could have a variety that is ripe when it is orange. You wait until it turns red, and it is already overripe.

Answer 3

if the rot starts at the bottom of the fruit and not right at the stem, y ou can have what is called blossom end rot which means that they do nothave enough lime. That can be remedied by adding lime to the soil, but it will have to be a fast acting lime. However they do sell a spray that will put lime in the plant almost immediately and cure that within a few days.

Answer 4

because they get too ripe. they dont fall off when they're ready like apples. you have to pick them when they are red, not before, and before they get too squishy. they should feel not like really tough but firm.

it could also be a tomato disease like the answer before mine

Answer 5

It is a plant disease.
Consult a Horticulture specialist.