EMERGENCY! 3 Fixes for Blossom End Rot || Black Gumbo

hey folks welcome to black gumbo I have an update for you on my single seed challenge it has blossom end rot here's the heartbreak look at these beautiful fruits and you come out here and think wow I'm gonna be eating some tomatoes and then you turn them over you see that brown there look at that that's blossom end rot this blossom side is rotting on all my tomatoes on only this plant all my other tomatoes in containers don't have blossom in the rot they're ripening up just fine it's the same soil so this has got to be a watering issue that's a very large plant and all these fruits that are going to come on here tap them and give them a little help we're gonna save these we're gonna save them with an emergency treatment for blossom and rod all right so blossom end rot it's that very common affliction that tomatoes and peppers and some other plants can get eggplant squash but usually you find it on your Tomatoes especially tomatoes that you put in potting soil blossom end rot it's when the end of your tomato the blossom side okay so you have a tomato and the vine comes down and then you've got your sepals the little Leavey things on the top where the flower was and then there's your fruit and you're waiting and you wait and you go out you pick your fruit and you turn it over and on the blossom end there's a brown spot it's rotten what a heartbreaker I've had Boston man rot in the past on some San Marzano tomatoes but now I've got it on my Black Beauty which is a which is my single seed challenge that tells me that I have a calcium deficiency now some people are gonna say blossom in rot is a watering issue yes it is a watering issue as well it's a regular watering can really affect your plants ability to uptake calcium but ultimately it all comes down to a matter of the plants not getting enough calcium the calcium in the soil is either not being not being freed up properly by a regular watering or there's not enough calcium at all so what do you do well first of all don't panic because you can actually eat the tomatoes that have blossom in right you just cut the blossom the the rot part off and you got perfectly good tomatoes but if you've got a big broad fat tomato like a big slicer then that blossom in rots gonna destroy half of your fruit and yeah what do you do I have several emergency fixes for you today now these are emergency fixes they are ways to put free calcium into your soil you can't just go and throw eggshells and their egg shells aren't eggshells are made up of calcium carbonate but the calcium is not free and available and it takes a long time for eggshells to break down some people bake the eggshells and crush them up into powder but it's still calcium carbonate and that that still has to leach out through the breakdown process you put your eggshells in your compost dome in your garden and they will eventually give you calcium but if you need to fix blossom end rot right now what do you do oh we can take half a cup of garden lime something like that Garden lime is 21 percent free calcium take a - about a tablespoon of white vinegar you don't need much mix that around in there and you'll see it start to foam up like that kind of like when you put vinegar and baking soda which is calcium carbonate and that's breaking this stuff down and releasing all the different kinds of calcium in there otherwise if you just put this in water without the vinegar it would still break down and just take longer but now I'm going to fill this this is about a gallon bucket I'm going to fill it up with water and let all this dissolve you can do exactly the same with calcium nitrate which is a common fertilizer now this is not considered organic but you know it's just chemicals it's just basic chemistry you wouldn't want to use this all the time but for an emergency fix calcium nitrate treat it the same way as you do the lime this is probably the better option but calcium nitrate dissolved in water about a handful or two in a gallon of water and then just water your plant with that you can you can dilute this over a few days and put it in a watering can and put under your plant over a few days and yeah so calcium nitrate garden lime but I have another have another technique alright so here is the other method it's considered by some to be kind of a folk remedy that isn't really legit but I've used it in the past and saved whole batches of tomatoes so we have calcium carbonate and thousand milligrams per tablet so it's the same stuff that's in eggshells but we can make this free and available to lifetime so what I did I took my mortar and pestle and I ground up some of these tablets I know maybe maybe about a half a cup of them in the past i dissolved an entire bucket I mean an entire bottle of these in a gallon of water and then use that over the course of three days to water my plants with I diluted it until it was gone and I saved my San Marzano tomatoes so what I've done here is I have crushed them up and I'm waiting for them to dissolve in this in this water and that will make sure that there are free calcium there's free calcium available to your plant right away this is again an emergency treatment and you need to find some kind of source of calcium - that is free calcium not eggshells not epsom saw Epsom salt has no calcium in it at all but you often see people recommending Epsom salt for blossom end rot it's good for your garden but it's not going to fix your problem right away calcium free calcium that's what you need so I'm going to use this maybe use this and water my plants over the course of this week with diluted solutions of these calcium sources and we should arrest our free our blossom end rot pretty quickly we're gonna speed this process up we're gonna start blending the tums and with the water that's what we're looking for so I'm gonna take my can and now that's a two and a half gallon can I'm just gonna pour it all in there fill it up with water and I'll water twice with this camp maybe three times now we'll just water this plant real good with this solution and I'll do that every day until I use up this watering can let's get a little more in there I'm gonna split this up into thirds so three days of watering and a side benefit is well it smells good I'll just leave that right there all right thanks for joining me today on black gumbo southern gardening hopefully this is gonna work and in a future garden tour we'll come by and we'll check it out and see if it did work so please subscribe to my channel a lot of my people that watch my videos in common are not subscribed if you come if you if you subscribe to my channel that really helps us out a lot so please subscribe like us on Instagram and Facebook and happy gardening to you bye bye [Music]

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Keywords: Gardening, Vegetables, Texas Gardening, Zone 9a, Black Gumbo, Blossom end rot, how to fix blossom end rot, how to remedy blossom end rot, Emergency fix for blossom end rot, blossom end rot in tomatoes, blossom end rot treatment, how to treat blossom end rot, what is blossom end rot, how do I treat blossom end rot, Calcium deficiency, watering irregularities, inconsistent watering

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Length: 8min 13sec (493 seconds)

Published: Mon May 04 2020