From: songbird@anthive.com   
      
   Frank wrote:   
   ...   
   > blossom end rot was just calcium deficiency.  I've dealt with both.   
      
     BER is a calcium deficiency, but why any plant   
   can have that happen can be caused by more than one   
   factor.   
      
     some years we have it on some of the early fruits   
   and not many after.   
      
     not this year, the slow cloudy month with gobs of   
   rain we had to start the season must have given the   
   plants enough time to get enough root growth done.   
      
     we had huge fruits (many over 2lbs each), but i   
   didn't consider them to be very good quality.   
      
     i spent a lot of time today, after picking six   
   buckets i would normally expect between 40-50   
   quarts from that but ended up with 22 and 1/2.   
      
     considering a lot of people had a hard time getting   
   any at all we're happy with what we had this season   
   but also glad we're done canning.   
      
      
     songbird   
      
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