Why are my tomatoes floury?

Hi shatc4 welcome to GOY what variety are they?

Moneymaker

Sorry no wiser I grow these and mine are not floury are you sure they are not over ripe.

definitely not overripe have late blight so have been harvesting early

Shatc4 could you amplify a bit please... potatoes floury or waxy yes but tomatoes??? Do you mean they are sort of 'wooly'?

Wooly sounds like a reasonable word for it. I have been researching on-line and the best explanation is not enough potassium.

There you go... now you know what to do next year.

oooh nooo
such a shame
very disheartening

better luck next year eh

x x x

Could be unbalanced feeding and watering, also may be in the variety.

Doctorbob1 do you have some more specifics on that comment. I have been using tomatorite every 10 days since setting tresses. I would have hoped that this would have the correct fertilizer balance i.e less nitrogen more potassium

Sorry to be so long coming back to you. The base on which to grow anything is to prepare the soil with enough food on which the subject is to grow i.e. Tomatoes. Often if you use farm manure you don't know the balance. Blood, Fish and Bone is one of the best fertilisers to use.
Giving good growth to produce a well balanced plant, Tomarite in liquid form should be used after you see the first truss in full flower. With any watering stale water is the best with a weak solution of Tomarite. Increase the strength of feed weekly as the first tomatoes ripen. Stop your Tomatoes outside at 4 trusses, inside with heat, 6 trusses. Deleaf at first signs of colour up to the first truss then after as the fruit matures. Moneymaker is one of the best.

Thanks for getting back to me. I have pretty much done as you describe, admittedly this is a garden that has been neglected for some time and i do not know the construction of the soil but we did add compost, blood fish and bone etc. Just unlucky i guess.