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  • From: "Liz Pike" <liz AT laughingbrookfarm.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Market-farming] blossom end rot
  • Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 16:59:54 -0400

I keep coming across comments that trellising tomatoes also increases the
threat of blossom end rot (I never noticed this in my own tomatoes). I
understand blossom end rot is the result of a lack of calcium or low ratios
of calcium to potassium and nitrogen. I also know that trellising stresses
tomatoes slightly. Would stress, trellising, inhibit moisture uptake by the
plant, thereby decreasing calcium availability to plant tissues, thereby
increasing blossom end rot?? I'm having a hard time making the connection
between trellis stress and blossom end rot.

Liz Pike
Laughingbrook Farm
Westfield NC
http://www.marketfarming.com
http://www.laughingbrookfarm.com








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