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Why So Little Yellow Shoulders in Tomatoes this Year?

August 19, 2016Emmalea Garver Ernest

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 →

Vegetable Crops 24:22, physiological disorders, potassium, tomato, tomato ripening

Possible Tomato Ripening Problems in High Tunnels

June 10, 2016Emmalea Garver Ernest

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 →

Vegetable Crops 24:12, high tunnel, physiological disorders, potassium, tomato, tomato ripening

Tomato Ripening Problems

July 18, 2014Emmalea Garver Ernest

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 →

Uncategorized 22:17, physiological disorders, tomato, tomato ripening

Yellow Shoulders in Tomato a Big Problem This Season

August 4, 2011cmanneri

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 →

Uncategorized 19:20, tomato, tomato ripening

Various End-of-Year Items: Less Stress on Vegetables Now, Root Zone Temperature and Tomato Fruit Ripening Problems

September 17, 2010cmanneri

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 →

Uncategorized 18:27, tomato, tomato ripening

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