High School students compared Hydro Grow’s 119w to HTG’s 120w Led lights and Hydro Grow’s 63w to a generic 90w UFO light from Ebay. We used cloned tomato pla…
Video Rating: 4 / 5
Question by thisone: What could be eating my Tomato Plants?
I have 4 varieties of tomato plant and live in the south of England. Something is eating the “Shirley” but ignoring the “Tumbling Toms” and “Alicante” varieties.
They are about 12inches high and bought from the same garden centre.
Any ideas please?
Best answer:
Answer by Bailey
buhd.
Know better? Leave your own answer in the comments!
Related Tomato Planting Articles
9 Secrets you didn’t know before, on How to Grow Great Tomato Plants:
growtomatoestips. com
Lmfao at that kid on the side
Thanks a lot for the video.
I also have the thorough step-by-step video directions on how to grow your very own homemade Aquaponic system. Its really easy that even your granny can do it!
Look into here for more information:
ｗｗｗ.fine4.info/step-by-step-how-to-build-your-own-aquaponics-system
v good we need his email
what are those black tubes at 3:02?
this is great, thanks
Our sustainable community in Southern Costa Rica focuses on solutions. You tube or Google Serenity Gardens Eco Village in Southern Costa Rica.
JAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJ…
soooo…stoned..
um can you say support your tomatoes?
Would it have helped to decrease the distance between the plant and the light? I’ve typically ran my plant within a couple inches of my cfl.
Ok I’m just wondering why didn’t u steak them up right? Instead of letting them hang
yeah, what was the ratio, though? Those things come in “flower” and “vegetative” models, both of which have red and blue, but skewed greatly towards one or the other depending on your purpose…. that’s a REALLY important variable.
you should of used more plants, phenotypes come into play ya know
Is it me, or was the 90w eBay light a red light? Or majority of the bulbs were red? Be that as it may, there didn’t seem to be enough blue in the color spectrum under the eBay light. Therefore, the plant under the eBay UFO pales in comparison to plants grown under the broader spectrum set ups. Had the plant been under a blue 90w UFO, I’m certain the results would have been significantly different.
Wow thanks I was planning to buy the eBay UFO but not anymore
lol the fat guy
Damn if my high school would have had 120w LED grow lights I would have stole them to grow weed.
Dan Akroyd’s son is a horticulturist?
The watt rating is the sum of the watt rated LEDs. So you will get like 90 watt being made out of 90, 1 watt LEDs. But, you can’t really push the LED at 1 watt, rather something more like 0.8 or so before you start taking a big hit with heat and efficiency. Not only that but it directly translates into the amount of light you get. You can have two systems, one set to run slightly hotter and produce 20% more light and draw 30% more current, with the same LEDs, and claimed wattage.
Ouch. You can see the color difference evident on the video. The Blue is clearly lacking. My guess is the sucker is cheap and is running the same 4volts to all the LEDs which works good for red LEDs but horrible for blue LEDs. If you still have the lights you should crack that one open and see if it is just running all the wires to all the LEDs equally. And run a kilowatt to the other grow lamps to actually test their real draw. But, none of it taints the results really.
where I live cherry tomatoes sell for 3.00 to 4.00 a pound depending on the season. Combined there was probably around 8 to 10 lbs of tomatoes so if you do the math we actually saved money. Also keep in mind this is an agriculture class in a high school.
The UFO was a combo of red and blue.
The UFO there was pure red. That’s a serious problem.
Blue spectrum: mediate blue light-induced phototropism (circadian rhythms), chloroplast re-localization, opening of the stomatal aperture and stimulates proton pumps that drive protons out of the cells which starts off a whole set of reactions; electochemical gradients, osmosis of water, etc.
No blue light while the plant is growing is largely responsible for the shortfall there. Red is more efficient for the plant, but blue is important.
I wanna slap that dude in the corner lol only kidding
I took two 90watt ufo’s 2 different manufacturers and found they only draw 60watts of actual power.
Rabbits
bunnies,birds,dogs, wild animals. put some mesh around the plants or one of those round wire thigns that go over the plant
bugs or insects or malnutrition
Rabbit, dog, racoon, alll kinds of animals
Bugs Ha Ha,Call a local nursery they can help!! Theres a speacial poison that you use to dust the plants,it wont hurt the fruit either,Sorry I cant remember the name but the nursery will no
Pretty much anything. Slugs, snails, rabbits, assorted insects. Do you have any pictures?
Is it eating the entire leaf and leaving the stem ? In America I would look at the horned tomato worm. It is about the size of your thumb and is the color of the tomato plant. The reason that it hasn’t touched the others is it just hasn’t gotten that far. If it is the horned worm that is. Look close under the leaves. It may only come out at night. that would be the reason that it is hard to see. Good luck
Sometimes a small cut worm will live in the soil beneath the plant. They tend to come out at night and will eat right through the plant stems. Either a quick transplant to another container or a thorough exam of the soil around the stem. The worm is about 5-6 mm in diameter, grey and about 2-3 cm long.
If the stems are being severed at ground level, it’s grubs.
When planting, wrap the lower stems with newspaper below and above ground. That will prevent that.
If the leaves are being eaten, that is tomatoe worms. You can find them under leaves. They are green, about 1-2 inches long, have horns, and are ugly. Pick them and squash them. Insecticide will prevent those.
I have no idea why one variety would be effected over others.
Eggs could have existed from the nursery, or developed in your garden.
These are experiences in US.
Good luck.