What Causes Tomatoes To Split?
- Over-watering. Excess water is the primary cause of tomatoes splitting. …
- Inconsistent Watering. Although this may seem the same as over-watering, it is a different issue. …
- Poor Drainage. In a similar vein to excess watering, poor draining soil can lead to the same result. …
- Not Picking Ripe Fruits. …
- Poor Air Circulation. …
- Susceptible Tomato Varieties. …
Beside this,What should I do if my tomato plant is splitting?
Instead of plucking your tomatoes by hand, harvest your tomatoes by cutting them off the vine just above the calyx with a pair of pruning shears or a sharp pair of scissors. One simple solution is to grow a different variety of tomato that is less likely to split, crack, or catface.
Correspondingly,What kind of tomato is less likely to split?
If you are growing cherry tomatoes, a similar size and type of tomato that is less likely to split on or off the vine, is the grape tomato. If you live in an area with lots of fluctuation in rainfall and you don’t like to water your garden manually, you might consider growing grape tomatoes instead of cherry tomatoes.
Similarly, it is asked,Why are my cherry tomatoes cracking after picking?
You might hear different reasons why the fruits crack but the simple explanation is that they outgrow their skin. Washing, as you mentioned, allows water to pass thru the skin causing the same swelling beneath the skin. Rain water is the same as tap water. I suspect that if you must rinse a saltwater solution would minimize cracking.
What causes a cherry tomato to split in half?
The inside of the tomato grows faster than the skin and the tomato cracks under pressure. All kinds of tomatoes are susceptible to splitting, but cherry tomatoes, due to their size, are the most likely tomatoes to split.