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doubletake

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FLkeys1 said:
Yep, it's caused by excess water up take.. So if the plant is stressed from the heat and then it gets watered the plant will take up too much water and makes the tomato split.


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One of the more frustrating things about growing tomatoes is watching a tomato ripen on the vine, slowly growing and changing from green, to pink, to red.... and then looking one morning and seeing that that tomato you've been waiting for has split. Tomatoes split most often just as they're ripening, and, if you have several ripening at the same time, it's likely that all of them will split.

What Causes Tomatoes to Split?

Tomatoes split because of fluctuations in the amount of water they get. If it's been very dry, and then all of a sudden you get a couple of inches of rain, the insides of the tomatoes grow faster than the outer skin is able to, and the tomatoes crack. While this can sometimes be a problem when the tomatoes are still green, it happens more often to tomatoes that are starting to ripen, mainly because the outer skin becomes more fragile the closer a tomato gets to ripening.
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Hey thanks for that man I appreciate it, I have them in a drip system 90 minuet every other day gets them nice and wet then one day to dry out, any ideas on how I should change it to get the splitting to stop?
 
FLkeys1

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doubletake said:
Hey thanks for that man I appreciate it, I have them in a drip system 90 minuet every other day gets them nice and wet then one day to dry out, any ideas on how I should change it to get the splitting to stop?
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Try and do 45 min. each day and try and keep them from drying out too much. I am not sure where you are but where I am in So. Cal. it gets so hot my tomatoes just stress and crack also. I have thought about putting shade cloth over them, maybe 50-60% shade and see if that helps but I have found they taste just the same split or not. I know it looks bad but as you know home grown is always better then store bought.
 
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FLkeys1 said:
Try and do 45 min. each day and try and keep them from drying out too much. I am not sure where you are but where I am in So. Cal. it gets so hot my tomatoes just stress and crack also. I have thought about putting shade cloth over them, maybe 50-60% shade and see if that helps but I have found they taste just the same split or not. I know it looks bad but as you know home grown is always better then store bought.
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Hahaha I'm in so cal too San Diego county, I thought you were in Florida cause ur name haha!
And yeah they don't bother me too much I just cut the tops off and slice up the rest and eat with salt or slice em and put them on burgers and what not.
Made some pickles with my cucumbers the other day they were so good.
 
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doubletake said:
Hahaha I'm in so cal too San Diego county, I thought you were in Florida cause ur name haha!
And yeah they don't bother me too much I just cut the tops off and slice up the rest and eat with salt or slice em and put them on burgers and what not.
Made some pickles with my cucumbers the other day they were so good.
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;-) I am in Riverside County.. My plan is to retire in the Florida keys in about 10 years, I have been vacationing in the keys since 96 and I just feel so at home there. Plan is to open up a little nursery and sell tropical plants, who knows by then the entire country may be able to legal grow and I cans sell some clones and seedlings along with my palms :hump:
 
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FLkeys1 said:
;-) I am in Riverside County.. My plan is to retire in the Florida keys in about 10 years, I have been vacationing in the keys since 96 and I just feel so at home there. Plan is to open up a little nursery and sell tropical plants, who knows by then the entire country may be able to legal grow and I cans sell some clones and seedlings along with my palms :hump:
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That's cool man I really wanna make it to Florida one day just havnt been able to yet. And Defenetly some exotic clones with the palms ha that would be cool.
 
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doublejj said:
My brother & sister-in-law just retired and moved to Fla. Bought a house in CoCo Beach on a canal with a boat dock, they have Manatees in their back yard.......8-)
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that is a great area. I have friends just south of Coco in Indian Harbour Beach. He was telling me they never lock their cars or doors up because it is still safe. When they get settled in tell them to take the tour of Cape Canaveral it is a fascinating place.
 
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FLkeys1 said:
that is a great area. I have friends just south of Coco in Indian Harbour Beach. He was telling me they never lock their cars or doors up because it is still safe. When they get settled in tell them to take the tour of Cape Canaveral it is a fascinating place.
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They have a huge yacht & are hardly ever home, they are always posting pictures from some key, or island......bastards! lol
Edit. They have seen a rocket launch already....8)
 
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S'Manta said:
I have been looking for BT concentrate cuz I'm using 2 bottles of redi mixed every week @$15.00 a bottle..so I called a hydro store and they have it. $12.00 a pint of concentrate but he said I could have it for $10.00. Beats the price of the redi mix from Osh and Visalia Lowe's didn't have it either.
A happy moment. :-) I always forget to check them out.
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Ha, I had a feeling you were around visalia. When we were down there we went to sequoia park I kept thinking... where is Sam I know she's around here somewhere lol.

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mwooten102 said:
Ha, I had a feeling you were around visalia. When we were down there we went to sequoia park I kept thinking... where is Sam I know she's around here somewhere lol.

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I am about 30 mi east of Visalia out towards Three Rivers. :-)
 
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