Pollination & fruiting
Flowers that drop, fruit that never sets, fruit that rots at the tip.
A plant can be healthy and still crop badly. Flowers need the right temperature and a visit from a pollinator; fruit needs steady water to swell without splitting or rotting at its base. Most of it is fixed in the next flush of flowers.
Start with what you see
Choose the symptom that looks most like your plant.
Fruiting problems
3 problems
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Poor pollination
Cucumbers, Zucchini, Pumpkins Flowers but no fruit, or small, misshapen fruit that shrivels at the tip. -
Blossom drop
Tomatoes, Bell peppers, Chili peppers Flowers yellow at the stalk and fall before any fruit forms. Usually heat or cold. -
Blossom end rot
Tomatoes, Bell peppers, Chili peppers A sunken, dark, leathery patch at the flower end of the fruit. Caused by uneven watering.
