Vanisle_BC
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Location: Port Alberni, B.C. Canada, Zone 7 (+?)

BER susceptible tomato varieties.

I grow several tomato varieties. This year one of them, and only one, has blossom-end rot. It's 'Roma VF' which I've never grown before; a replacement for my usual 'Principe Borghese' because I'd run out of seed for that and couldn't find more this spring.

Any comments on particularly susceptible - or resistant - varieties? my UNaffected ones are:
Ailsa Craig
Camp Joy (Chadwick Cherry)
Jaune Flamme
Latah
Longkeeper
Sungold
Sweetie

imafan26
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Joined: Tue Jan 01, 2013 8:32 am
Location: Hawaii, zone 12a 587 ft elev.

Most of the cherry tomatoes I have grown don't really get BER, they do crack.
Heat resistant varieties usually have less BER.

I am currently growing
BHN 589 It was bred for flavor, not disease resistance, but it does fairly well against PM, and it did not get BER, It does crack.

SunKing is another determinate tomato resistant to TYLCV. It also has good mildew resisitance, but does get blight. So far no BER on that one either.

According to this publication. Roma and some of the larger tomatoes are more susceptible to BER
https://ucanr.edu/sites/placernevadasma ... /86509.pdf



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