At final harvest, fruit number and total fresh mass of fruit for each individual plant were recorded. Fruit from individual plant were examined for blossom-end rot (BER) incidence
and assessed for the severity of disorder under each treatment. Fruit were oven-dried at 71 1 8C to a constant mass and dry mass determined. Shoots and roots of each individual plant were collected, weighed, and oven-dried to determine the distribution of plant dry mass. Roots were separated from shoot and washed to remove the medium. They were oven-dried at 71 1 8C to a constant mass and dry mass determined. Irrigation use efficiency was determined by dividing the total fresh mass of fruit by the volume of irrigation water (litres) applied to the plant.