Does tomato shape affect cracking?

creeker · July 5, 2021

After our hot spell (2 weeks of 100s) we had a week of off and on rain and much lower temperatures. Due to nematodes in the ground I am growing in buckets on rain gutters this year ( first time so still learning the do's and don'ts) . The gutters filled with water, buckets soaked up and ripening tomatoes started cracking. All I could do was drain the gutters and pick all but the green tomatoes. The flatter (oblate) ones cracked worst, round ones not as bad and a heart shaped one and some pear shaped ones not at all. If this phenomenon is normal it will affect my variety selection in the future. Comments appreciated.

July 5, 2021	#1
creeker Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2015 Location: Southern New Mexico Posts: 106	Does tomato shape affect cracking? After our hot spell (2 weeks of 100s) we had a week of off and on rain and much lower temperatures. Due to nematodes in the ground I am growing in buckets on rain gutters this year ( first time so still learning the do's and don'ts) . The gutters filled with water, buckets soaked up and ripening tomatoes started cracking. All I could do was drain the gutters and pick all but the green tomatoes. The flatter (oblate) ones cracked worst, round ones not as bad and a heart shaped one and some pear shaped ones not at all. If this phenomenon is normal it will affect my variety selection in the future. Comments appreciated.