Jerry Brust, IPM Vegetable Specialist, University of Maryland; jbrust@umd.edu Normally at this time of year I’d be writing about how bad yellow shoulders and other fruit ripening problems are in Maryland tomatoes (Fig. 1). But this has been a strange… Continue Reading
Jerry Brust, IPM Vegetable Specialist, University of Maryland; jbrust@umd.edu May was a very cool, cloudy and wet month, which is having all kinds of repercussions now and into the summer for field crops. Gordon Johnson and Kate Everts talked about… Continue Reading
Jerry Brust, IPM Vegetable Specialist, University of Maryland;jbrust@umd.edu I have been getting emails and calls about tomato ripening problems such as blotchy ripening, yellow shoulders, grey wall, internal whitening, etc. (Figures 1, 2 and 3). They all have the same… Continue Reading
Jerry Brust, IPM Vegetable Specialist, University of Maryland; jbrust@umd.edu A very wide spread problem this year in tomatoes, especially some of the large-sized fruit, is yellow shoulders. Yellow shoulders is characterized by areas at the top of the fruit (shoulders… Continue Reading
Jerry Brust, IPM Vegetable Specialist, University of Maryland; jbrust@umd.edu Figure 1 shows part of a tomato field that I wrote about a few weeks ago concerning how environmental stress (high temperatures and drought) on the plants greatly affected plant viability… Continue Reading
