How do I get tomato plants to produce healthy tomatoes?
Mine always rot on the vine before they ripen. This year I even put them in individual pots with good drainage and nothing but potting soil.
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The only time my tomatoes don’t ripen and turn red is when it’s late in the season. Tomatoes need heat to ripen on the vine so maybe you are planting too late or it’s just cooler where you live. Just some ideas, but I hope you have better luck this year.
What zone are you in? Enough sun? Consistent watering? See if these help.
https://www.thespruce.com/tomato-plant-problems-and-how-to-prevent-1402976
https://homeguides.sfgate.com/tomatoes-wilting-rotting-vine-wrong-105419.html
https://commonsensehome.com/tomatoes-not-ripening/
Lots of sun is needed.
It's called Blossom End Rot...... This relatively common garden problem is not a disease, but rather a physiological disorder caused by a calcium imbalance within the plant. It can occur in pepper, squash, cucumber, and melon fruits as well as tomatoes.This common garden “disease” is often brought on by rapid growth from too much fertilizer, high salt levels or drought.
Blossom end rot symptoms occur on both green and ripe fruits and is identified by water-soaked areas that gradually widen and mature into sunken, brown, leathery spots on the bottom end. In many cases, secondary pathogens, which appear as a black, fuzzy-like growth, attack the affected area and cause complete rotting of the fruit. Blossom end rot will not spread from plant to plant.Treatment
Since this plant problem is physiological in nature, fungicides will not work as a control measure. We recommend the following: