Okay, I have some black moldy looking stuff on the tops of my tomato fruit. There are also splotches of green mold on the black mold. I looked around on the message board and found a link to a site that has a bunch of pictures of tomato diseases and couldn't find any that look like mine. The closest that mine come to is the blossom end rot, but my black spots are on TOP of the tomato, not on the blossom (bottom) end. I have pictures of it on my blog - www.indygarden.blogspot.com, if you want to take a look and try to help me figure out what I'm doing wrong here. This is the first problem I've seen with our tomatoes.
the answer is simple to find go to you local nursery or HD look in the Home Gardener's Problem Solver : Symptoms and Solutions for More Than 1,500 Garden Pests and Plant Ailments (Ortho Home Gardener's Problem Solver) (Paperback)
yes i am aware that ortho is chem company and some solutions push ortho products. But the book has first rate pictures and descriptions of many home garden pest and disease problems. Though many or their solution require chem. So it is a win lose thing. Easy to find what problem is but you may not find an organic solution to the problem without some more research.
I've had the same problem this year. I've assumed it must be where a turtle, hornworm, or other insect has bitten into the tomato. Just my assumption...
Indy, your tomatoes may have apoptosis - literally, cell suicide. Here's a link to a fascinating (I think, anyway) article about it, then you would need to google "apoptosis" for photos of it on tomatoes.
Or, if older leaves on the plant have irregular dark spots on them, with some on the bottom yellowing and dying, then it's probably early blight -- which isn't early BTW, it hits mature plants.
