Blossom End Rot

[rogesse]

To my shame and horror, I discovered blossom end rot on 2 out of 6 of my Orange Banana plants this morning. Thankfully none of the other tom varieties are affected and it's only 2 fruits very lightly affected on each plant. Yes,yes, I know - I shouldn't be so lazy and forget to water the greenhouse for a couple of days

My question is; should I take off the affected fruits as it will only get worse or will it get no worse if I don't stint on water (and food). These are paste toms so I'd be quite happy to cut off the bad bits when ripe.

Does anyone know wether this particular tom or long plums are more likely to get blossom end rot?

[Potstubsdustbins]

Take off the affected fruit and keep fingers crossed for future fruit on that plant.

Colin

[Alison]

Blimey, you've got fruit big enough to get blossom end rot at this time of year! Mine are just flowering but no fruit yet. As said above though, you're best removing the fruit and improving your watering technique. Bear in mind though that some varieties are just worse than others for this so it might not just be you.

[rogesse]

The rot seems to be getting worse on the affected so they're gone.

Alison - I sowed in january and the GH is sited in a very protected south facing site - and I'm on the edge of the London bubble heat wise. Having said that, I am pushing it! I'm going to look very stupid if we get a sudden cold snap.

[Flummery]

Blossom end rot?

I think I've got that!

[mrbadexample]

I got a fair bit of BER on my orange bananas last year, when I went away on holiday. My watering-mate was perhaps not as diligent as I would have been. Not going on holiday until the end of September this year.

[Flummery]

Blossom end rot?

I think I've got that!

(Or is it Athletes' Foot?

[Ja9]

some of mine had it last year but the plants didn't seem to come to any harm and other tomatoes on it were fine

[Aberdeenplotter]

Blossom end rot is caused by a deficiency in calcium usually but not always due to irregular watering. As I understand it, the only soluble form of calcium is in calcium nitrate which can be disolved in water and applied to your tomatoes. Don't overdo it though as the other part of the equation is nitrogen which will give you loads of leaffy growth.