Tomatoes have lots of diseases but there is something called blossom end rot. I am not an expert. My book says dry conditions after wet; calcium deficiency. This is more of a weather condition causing a calcium deficiency I have read. I can't grow the heirloom tomotoes because most of the tomatoes rot; I think this is disease combined with the long, long time it takes for the huge tomatoes to mature. By the time it is red some bug has taken a bite out of it and then it rots. I am sure others here know more than I do.

i think it is BER also. throw them away and the plant should return to normal. some folks use epsom salts to help minimize this. i don't know if it works. i had a little this yr but after the first blush everything went back to normal. i think paste tomatoes are suceptible to BER.

william

I always put about a tablespoon of Epsom salts in when I plant.

That being said, every year I loose some to various things....I don't fret, just toss them over the fence to the chickens. That is just the nature of gardening, no matter the plant.

Thanks for the info. It's been along time since i've grown tomatoes and had forgotten what caused ber. Will get after them tomorrow with epsom salts.

Off topic. gldno1 I looked up your page. You sound like a retired dairy farmer - good sense, don't get too upset about little things. I used to have dairy farmers on two sides of me. One day I drove by and the field was full of dead cows. The fertilizer spreader had not worked and the hay was too high in nitrates. Those people milked three times a day the first at three in the morning. You have to roll with the punches to be a dairy farmer.