Any BER Resistant Hybrid Varieties?

[Budge]

I've read till my eyes are bleary about the prevention of BER, so I'll try not to encourage further discussion on the uselessness of calcium sprays or soil additives, the encouragement of it due to uneven watering by me or Mother Nature, etc. I guess the last hope for prevention might lie in the tomatoes' genes, and I'm just wondering if anyone has found any hybrid tomato varieties that seem resistant to BER. I suppose there's a lot of hype and claims that professional seedsmen make about their varieties, but is even a BER resistant hybrid variety a "no-such-thing" and a lot of nonsense?

[mtbigfish]

Budge
Years ago I grew about 10% hybrid and 90% OP or heirlooms - now only 5% hybrids if any
You will find one thing and that is that roma or egg type, plums and paste types seem to be more prone to BER
I did find one called enchantment an egg shaped that I used to plant that never had BER occur - and others that did around it - another with same results was tolstoi a small salad tomato - both were heavy producers and had really good flavor for a hybrid or OP
I have heard about one called Salad Lover but never tried it
Dennis

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by Budge

I've read till my eyes are bleary about the prevention of BER, so I'll try not to encourage further discussion on the uselessness of calcium sprays or soil additives, the encouragement of it due to uneven watering by me or Mother Nature, etc. I guess the last hope for prevention might lie in the tomatoes' genes, and I'm just wondering if anyone has found any hybrid tomato varieties that seem resistant to BER. I suppose there's a lot of hype and claims that professional seedsmen make about their varieties, but is even a BER resistant hybrid variety a "no-such-thing" and a lot of nonsense?

Quite a few years ago I talked to a hybridizer from Petoseed who was based in FL. The main discussion was about root knot nematodes and akso breeding varieties that were more hear tolerant re pollen genes but we did talk about BER as well.

While it is a physiological, not infectious condition, as I think most folks know, he said that they had been unable to ID any genes involved with BER and I don't know if the situation is still the same.

The only kind of tomatoes that I've grown that have not been particularly susceptible to BER are cherry tomatoes. And I grow mainly non-hybrids with Sungold F1 being about the only exception.

[cecilsgarden1958]

The only place I get BER is in container or bagged plants. Never in 20+ years have I got it in the main garden. I keep he calcium level high, maybe that is why. Maybe, because everything else goes wrong, my garden cuts me a break or maybe, because I am consistant with water?


CECIL

[travis]

Don't have any idea how they derived the information, but Cornell claims the following varieties have BER resistance:

New Yorker
Old Brooks
Thessaloniki
Basket Vee
Manalucie
Black Prince
Wins All
Mountain Spring (F1)
Burpee Supersteak (F1)
http://vegetablemdonline.ppath.corne...matoTable.html

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by travis

Don't have any idea how they derived the information, but Cornell claims the following varieties have BER resistance:

New Yorker
Old Brooks
Thessaloniki
Basket Vee
Manalucie
Black Prince
Wins All
Mountain Spring (F1)
Burpee Supersteak (F1)
http://vegetablemdonline.ppath.corne...matoTable.html

Travis, I have that same Cornell list of varieties with supposed tolerances to many diseases and I'm telling you that many of them just aren't correct based just on my growing the same varieties.

Of the ones listed above I've grown New Yorker, Manalucie, Thessaloniki and Wins All, and none of them were resistant/tolerant to BER. They might be in one year but not the next year ( see below)

In any one season almost any variety may show susceptibility to BER since there are so many variables known to induce it such as uneven delivery of water, too much N or growing in too rich soil b'c it causes too rapid growth which is a stress to the plants and it's all those variables that can induce stress that leads to BER. And then the next season the same variety may show no BER at all.

So I agree with you that for most of the varieties on that Cornell list where certain resistances/tolerances are indicated I don't have a clue as to exactly how that information was obtained.