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jflournoy · June 28, 2014

This is not a post asking how to eliminate BER, because I've seen there are a dozen different answers for that and someone, somewhere, says that all of them are useless. I'm growing some maters in containers and in the ground this year. They have all been planted for about 5 weeks now. Today I snipped several with BER from 7 different varieties (Cowlick's Brandywine, JD's Special C-Tex, Orange Minsk, Pruden's Purple, Polbig, Mountain Glory, Big Beef). I am fertigating with Texas Tomato Food, which claims to eliminate BER. I was skeptical of those claims when I bought it but I figured I would give it a shot. So far, not many of my plants are showing tomatoes with BER, but it certainly hasn't eliminated it.

My main question here, for those of you who have had BER issues in the past in your gardens, is: Are there certain tomato varieties you have grown that have never gotten BER in your garden or growing area, or at least very minimally?

Thanks.

June 28, 2014	#1
jflournoy Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2014 Location: Ohio Posts: 118	Blossom End Rot This is not a post asking how to eliminate BER, because I've seen there are a dozen different answers for that and someone, somewhere, says that all of them are useless. I'm growing some maters in containers and in the ground this year. They have all been planted for about 5 weeks now. Today I snipped several with BER from 7 different varieties (Cowlick's Brandywine, JD's Special C-Tex, Orange Minsk, Pruden's Purple, Polbig, Mountain Glory, Big Beef). I am fertigating with Texas Tomato Food, which claims to eliminate BER. I was skeptical of those claims when I bought it but I figured I would give it a shot. So far, not many of my plants are showing tomatoes with BER, but it certainly hasn't eliminated it. My main question here, for those of you who have had BER issues in the past in your gardens, is: Are there certain tomato varieties you have grown that have never gotten BER in your garden or growing area, or at least very minimally? Thanks.