My husband bought this roma tomato plant from our local nursery. I’m not sure how well it’s been cared for though. Many of the tomatoes are black on the bottom. I googled this and saw it could be blossom end rot. How do we address this and get this plant/tomatoes healthy?
Possible blossom end rot??
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That is definitely blossom end rot. BER is not a disease. It is a soil imbalance in which the plant cannot uptake calcium. Roma tomatoes and roma varieties are the most prone for this out of all tomato varieties. You will read that it is caused by improper watering and all sorts of things but it is not. In my soil I cannot grow any tomato except for cherry varieties without having BER. NONE. But, by using a couple of handfuls of Epsom Salts at planting and once or twice throughout the growing season I never get BER. If you would update your profile and let everyone know where you are located it would be a big help in addressing any problems you might encounter.