What am I looking at?

[pershing]

Noticed these 2 tomatoes have some very ugky deformities. What am I looking at? How do I fix it? How do I prevent it?

Pershing

[pershing]

Nobody has any ideas?

[kath]

Looks like it might be a combination of catfacing and blossom end rot. Can't be fixed- you can keep the fruits on and see what happens or cull them and let the plant's energy go into making more, hopefully prettier ones. Prevention is difficult since it seems that almost any less than perfect environmental conditions can be responsible, ie. cold temps during fruit set, uneven watering, etc. Catfacing is more common with beefsteak varieties and earlier in the season.

[feldon30]

Are you growing in the ground or containers?
Have you been watering regularly?
Did you add any dolomitic lime to the soil at planting?

[clkeiper]

I had "crap" that looked like that last year. the weather was cold and damp and downright ugly. I contributed the "condition" to the weather, but I have no real explanation for it. I just assumed it was weather related. What variety is it and how warm was it while they were setting blossom? I was growing celebrity, big beef, early goliath, goliath, better boy and a few others, but I couldn't tell if it was on one variety or more than one... I just don't remember, but I don't think it was on the heirlooms...which bloom later than the hybrids.

[ramapojoe]

i've been growing tomatoes many years and never had ones that looked like that.
i've had my share of diseased and bug infested plants but never looked like them.
i think clkeiper might be correct about being weather related.

[pershing]

They are on soil (square foot mix), single stem and transplanted late april due to the last few cold snaps. I added a mix of stuff to the whole including gypsum and epsom salt. None of the other plants show this problem. I cut these early and the rest look ok so far. My labels got erased and Im trying to figure which plant it is. Only have one plant per variety. Not sure about the temps but for the last month or so has been steady 60 nights and 85-90 days...

[Balr14]

I have noticed this on 4 tomatoes on 4 different plants. All were the first ones to set on their respective plant and it was cold and rainy. Other tomatoes that set later on these same plants are fine. We have had nearly a month of daily rain and temperatures in the 50s at night.

[KarenO]

I think it is just some odd zippering/catfacing as a result of cold temps when these earliest fruit were formed. I do not think it is a disease of any kind and most of the fruits affected will be edible if you choose to allow them to remain and ripen. If not, snip them off and let the plant grow more fruit now that the weather is warmer this is less likely to happen again.
KO

[Father'sDaughter]

Originally Posted by KarenO

I think it is just some odd zippering/catfacing as a result of cold temps when these earliest fruit were formed. I do not think it is a disease of any kind and most of the fruits affected will be edible if you choose to allow them to remain and ripen. If not, snip them off and let the plant grow more fruit now that the weather is warmer this is less likely to happen again.
KO

Looks like that to me too when you zoom in. Other than the splits and cracks, the discoloring appears to be brown "scabs" on the skin versus the black mushy area you get with blossom end rot.