Nice tomatoes. Lets hope this weather doesn't change very soon. Better Boys here in Texas were also prone to Blossom End Rot but they were planted in the ground not in containers. To be safe you might want to sprinkle about 1/4 cup of epsom salt around on the soil before you water again to make sure it doesn't happenI saw Chuck made a tomato thread, so I decided to copy him.
Anywho! Here's a look at Mr. Better Boy!
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And yes, those are my sunflowers on the left for the competition!
What kind of spots?
That is normal. A tomato bloom is a perfect flower. It is self pollinating but only at certain nighttime temperatures. If it isn't the correct temperature it will shrivel and die. Notice on the stem where the flower is, is there a yellowish ring? If you see this the flower will die. If you don't see it the flower has set fruit even though you cannot see it. The flower must be mature and fully opened before the yellowish ring will show.
IIRC they are light brown and rather faint. Ill post pictures later. I was going to last night but it was way too late when I got home.
Calcium carbonate too.
Very true,but...............Here we have nothing but limestone and an over abundance of calcium. The problem is that plants cannot uptake the calcium for some reason. Epsom salts somehow makes the calcium available for uptake. I have never tried calcium carbonate simply because we already have tons of calcium. I think I will experiment on a couple of plants with it to see if the calcium in the calcium carbonate is different from the natural calcium and see if blossom end rot is eliminated. I hope it does eliminate BER because calcium carbonate is a lot cheaper than epsom salts.
Calcium and phosphate are antagonist.
