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7/8/2009 7:28:39 AM EDT
Help.  I have blossom end rot and everything I have read says to use calcium or calcium chloride.  Can I make calcium cloride?  Does anyone know how or have some other remedy they have used.  I have had to toss out 5 tomatoes so far and haven't eaten the first one.  Getting desperate here.

Thanks
7/8/2009 8:39:27 AM EDT
[#1]
Lime is pretty cheap.  Also, watch for overwatering.
7/8/2009 9:29:38 AM EDT
[#2]
1 TBS of lime in a gallon sprayer and spray directly on the plants.  Next year dust the ground and till it end.

Bob
7/8/2009 1:18:52 PM EDT
[#3]
It may be too late in the season, but get some of this stuff.  It's a calcium-based spray that you should be able to pick up at your local feedmill, garden store, walmart, whatever.  I've been using it for the past couple of years and haven't had nearly the rot problem I used to have.

YMMV, though

Good luck,
-Slice
7/8/2009 1:34:43 PM EDT
[#4]
Quoted:
It may be too late in the season, but get some of this stuff.  It's a calcium-based spray that you should be able to pick up at your local feedmill, garden store, walmart, whatever.  I've been using it for the past couple of years and haven't had nearly the rot problem I used to have.

YMMV, though

Good luck,
-Slice


Excellent.  I found a place north of town that has it.