pink brandywine blooms dropping

tnkrer · June 12, 2013

I have this earthtainer that started vigorously and then slowed down. (It has one early girl and one brandywine). heat stress or herbicide drift have been proposed as causes. Last couple of days, I am seeing the blooms on the brandywine dropping. Here is the picture of the brandywine truss

and the fallen bloom

Luckily I have a second brandywine, which is not showing this problem. (It did drop one bloom, but it was megabloom, so I suppose that was expected)

Is the bloom drop consistent with heat stress or herbicide drift? Or is it something else? Early girl in the same container has slowed down in growth, but is at least setting fruit (3 decent sized tomatoes, 8 blueberry sized ones)

June 12, 2013	#1
tnkrer Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2013 Location: MA 6a/b Posts: 352	pink brandywine blooms dropping I have this earthtainer that started vigorously and then slowed down. (It has one early girl and one brandywine). heat stress or herbicide drift have been proposed as causes. Last couple of days, I am seeing the blooms on the brandywine dropping. Here is the picture of the brandywine truss and the fallen bloom Luckily I have a second brandywine, which is not showing this problem. (It did drop one bloom, but it was megabloom, so I suppose that was expected) Is the bloom drop consistent with heat stress or herbicide drift? Or is it something else? Early girl in the same container has slowed down in growth, but is at least setting fruit (3 decent sized tomatoes, 8 blueberry sized ones)