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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: SW VA Zone 6b-7a
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Hey Folks,
Been growing a SFT in a 8" pot in window at work. Picked first ripe mater yesterday. Sliced 'er open this morning. Really tasty tart flavor. I liked it! Anyway, some of the seed inside had black dots, some were half black and others were all black. Most, however, appeared normal. Also, there was no discoloration of the gel or surrounding flesh near the black seeds. Tried searching a few places, but have yet to find an answer as to what this is and what causes it. (Being hopelessly stupid doesn't help either!) It has been suggested that it could be internal BER. Would that be true even if there were no changes in the flesh? Any info ya'll could give me on this would be very appreciated!! ![]() TIA
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Texas
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I've had this infrequently happen before, but it was an early season occurrence for the most part. And (if memory serves) I've also seen it suggested that it's some sort of manifestation of BER, but I can't find that information on a search either.
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Upstate NY, zone 4b/5a
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The Seminis, aka Petoseed, book on Tomato diseases, which I've had for a long time and is excellent and also sold by TGS, clearly describes and pictures both internal and external BER.
And several times since I've been posting online about tomatoes, which goes back to 1990, someone has posted a picture of internal BER at a message site. There are no outward symptoms at all when it's internal BER. Since TAMU uses mostly pictures from Petoseed perhaps internal BER is pictured and described there?
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jan 2006
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Thanks Suze & Carolyn,
I shall check out TAMU. ![]()
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See first and third link -- the Univ. of Florida and Oxford Journal ones.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...ck&btnG=Search |
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Tomatovillian™
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Suze,
Thanks for the links. ![]() Some pretty heavy stuff there ![]()
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