I grow Romas and had a problem with BER and when I brought the discussion up I was told that ALL paste tomatoes are prone to BER, not just Romas. We started to get a more regular rain down my way and then with regular watering, the BER disappered, I didn't amend the soil or anything like that.

Thanks.

I dressed the soil with bonemeal when the plants started blossoming and kept my water pretty regular outside of a couple days of heavy rainfall I couldn't control. Very little BER this season for me.

Planted in raised beds, btw.

My paste tomatoes always get BER. Often it disappears after the first few tomatoes, as the initial stress of fruit production can bring it on. Other year, it just persists.

Try Principe Borghese for pastes. Plain old Roma's have been bred too long and passed on seeds don't offer the same level of robustness as once they had. In 7 years no BER on the Principe's.

Nancy

I will keep that in mind for next year. This year's paste tomato is Amish Paste. I am trying it for the first time in hopes of getting some bigger tomatoes and thus shortening the blanching and peeling stage of salsa-making.

I've grown Roma, Amish Paste, and San Marzano. I've not had any BER as of yet on any of them.
Mrs H

Try Opalka.

Bill