Why Do Tomatoes Turn Brown On The Bottom?
When the bottoms of your tomatoes begin to turn brown, it may be indicating blossom end rot. This is caused by too much water or fertilizer. Try and leach out the excess fertilizer by adequately watering the plant and giving it the right amounts of water after that.
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It is called blossom end rot. Please see the website below for management strategies. It is a fact sheet from Cornell. Source(s): http://plantclinic.cornell.edu/FactSheet…
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The lower leaves will die off due to age and the fact they are shaded from the sun. They are also the most likely to get disease from bacteria and fungus. Source(s): http://www.pla...
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Features Three main causes turn tomato plants brown: cold weather, fungus or bacteria. The latter two cause tomatoes to develop early or late blight, leaf spot, verticillium wilt, ...
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Same here! Add more calcium to the soil next year before you plant. For now there is a calicum spray that you can buy to use on any tomatoes that are trying to grow right now (stil...
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If you want to help avoid tomato blight, you should try to keep the leaves as dry as possible, by watering the compost at the BASE of the plant, and not by sprinkler as Boris sugge...
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