Ep. 263 It's Not a Disease! Common Tomato Fruit Problems You Can't Spray Away | #GoodGrowing

Tomatoes may be the most popular garden crop, but they can also be the most frustrating. If your tomatoes are cracking, developing black spots on the bottom, refusing to ripen, or showing strange yellow shoulders, you're not alone. In this episode, Chris and Ken dig into the most common tomato fruit disorders caused by weather, watering, heat, and nutrient imbalances. We also discuss late-season tomato care, including topping plants, ripening green tomatoes indoors, and cleaning up the garden to reduce problems next year.

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00:42 Hey Ken! Where are we making our tomato problem observations this year?

04:09 Ken has tomato fruitworm (corn earworm), and he's proud of it.

05:33 What's a psychological disorder?

08:06 Tomato fruit cracking

11:45 Tomato yellow shoulder

13:27 White core of tomatoes

16:00 Blossom-end rot

21:00 Tomatoes are not ripening, or there are no tomatoes even though there are flowers

29:50 Late-season tomato maintenance

30:14 Topping tomatoes