If you notice that drawn the bottom of the tomato on the garden, Most likely, this is a vertex rot.
If the pulp on the tomato is not softened, but the stain of the dark color. That disease is not infectious.
Most often, such a vertex rot occurs when the temperature drops (respectively, sharp), the lack of calcium and the uneven watering.
Causes of reasons for the bottom of the tomato Top most often in our inattention to the plant. Due to lack of moisture, this disease may occur even in a greenhouse.
First, small, dark stains appear. Then the stain grows, darkens, pressed into the fruit. Tomato becomes dry and solid. But in case the fruits lie on Earth (prevention - tapping tomatoes!), And the weather is wet, the dry rot can go to the wet. Hot or wet weather stimulates the rapid development of the vertex rot.
Tomatoes are amazed, ripen faster healthy fruits.
Why tomatoes are black from below and how to deal with it.
Benefits begins from below due to the fact that moisture goes to the leaves. And the fruit does not remain anything, in addition to try to ripen and give seeds, let him at the expense of himself. Nothing to do, nature makes all the strength to throw to the salvation of the offspring.
It is necessary to deal with the disease even at the stage of buying seeds. Wet rot - infectious disease, and symptoms are similar to dry rot. These diseases can be called relatives. And just wet can be made to your site with infected seeds.
Another not extra precautions - the use of intake with alternating crops. Tomatoes on the same place can be planted only for the fourth year.
Treat seeds before sowing. They should be soaked in 0.5 percentage of manganese solution, it is about 5 grams per liter of water, or a 0.2 percent solution of copper mood, it is about two grams per liter of water. To withstand the closed seeds follows.
Regularly water the tomatoes.
Correct the ratio of applied fertilizers. Can help spraying tomatoes with calcium chloride.
It is possible to feed plants only with watering.
Do not bring the dung to the soil, this will serve as a stimulant for the development of the disease. Infected fruits need to be removed.
Do not forget to loosen the soil after watering, but it is necessary to do it after the earth drying.
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