Moldy Tomatoes

Passerbye

I'm trying out a new strain of tomatoes in the garden this year, an Heirloom strain called 'Black Krim', and they're getting this fuzzy gray mold along the bottom which seems to make them mushy. I've never had this problem with other tomatoes (beef steak, roma, cherry) so I'm not sure how to deal with it. I've got a roma tomato plant right next to the heirlooms, but those tomatoes don't have the mold. Is this problem unique to heirloom strains or something?

Deathwing

A quick Google suggests it might be Botrytis Blight? Doesn't sound like there's a lot you can do to cure, other than getting rid of the infected bits and treating with fungicide before it shows up.

I'm kind of a gardening n00b still though, and the only problem we've had with our tomatoes is the yellow "early blight" fungus on the leaves, so that may or may not be what's actually going on....Sounds pretty close though.

bowen

It appears your tomato is stricken with a form of blight that attacks a lot of plants:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botrytis_cinerea

Has some good tips for how to deal with it:
http://plantclinic.cornell.edu/FactSheets/botrytis/botrytis_blight.htm