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Tomatoes that rot at the bottom suffer from blossom end rot. This condition signifies a calcium deficiency and disappears quickly once the plants receive adequate calcium. Blossom end rot also affects eggplants, melons and peppers.
Tomatoes can be stricken by an astonishing array of diseases. If you want to see the full list, go to the How to Manage Tomato Pests page at UC Davis, which discusses some 30 diseases that can afflict tomatoes. Tomatoes can get early or late blight, either white or grey mold (or both). Then they can have problems with diseases with quirky names like curly top and corky root rot.