We have had the darndest luck with tomatoes. I got eggplant for days, but last year the dought made them split, this year, they look like this.. I may give up and give thanks I don't have to grow my own food.
What is the matter with my tomatoes?
a bird peck in the middle, the spotting I think I get when I water unevenly.
The spots sorta look like some kind of spray hit them. Maybe cold water when the fruit was hot or the wind brought some kind of spray drift onto them. From the photo it looks like whatever caused the spots was from the outside, not the inside of the fruit. Am I seeing that correctly?
the yellow "spots" are raised, like a tiny scab.
scale? (it's actually an insect)
wish I knew. I will take it to my nursery if I can get away!
Good idea. I've had scale in my house plants, years ago, they having come from commercial nurseries, but never in my vegetable garden
Wow I thought I was seeing double. On the veggie forum another member has a tomato that looks exactly the same to me. From my google search it seems those scabs can be caused by a bacterial infection or stink bugs. I've had them on a few tomatoes in years past.
Edited to say the other tomato is on the tomato forum not veggie forum. I tried to edit my original post but different words are overlapping each other so I wasn't able to.
This message was edited Jul 2, 2013 11:25 PM
It's was me posting her photo over there to see if anyone over there could come up with something. So far, nada.
Wow, I was really confused. Lol the suggestions I gave were from a google search. I have had stink bug damage on my tomatoes before.
Caraboof, zip on over to the tomato forum and look at the lasst posting. It says the scabs are cause by stink bug stings and gives some advice about dealing with the problem. I posted your photo over there as I thought perhaps it would open the photo to more "specialists" on tomatoes. What do you think?
Well, I'm certainly no specialist but I thought those scabs looked familiar.
Leaf-footed bugs do that too. They suck the juices out. I usually have a full on war with them in the summer but this year I planted Monarda & marigolds around my tomatoes and haven't had any problems with them. My neighbor has hundreds, ruining her tomatoes, so it must be one of the two, or both of the plants that are fending them off.