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Question by SugarSkull: What is happening to my tomato plants?
I have a huge container garden and my tomato plants are growing strong and fruitful. However I have noticed that the bottom leaves are turning yellow. One plant is really yellow!
What is this and what can I do about it?
Thank you!
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chlorosis, you need to feed them once a week because they quickly use up the nutrients in their soil. Also cut the tops off when they start producing fruit as this concentrates the growth on the fruit and not on growing taller.
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yes – the twine is tight enough that it holds the plants very well and there is very little movement.
If you look really hard, you can see tomato plants
Hi,
This method prevents the plant from moving back and forth, but what about left and right?
Awesome video, nice work all involved! A lot of good information there, However I still have one question… What are the effects of letting some or all of the suckers grow fully? Will they too produce fruit? If so, how does that effect the overall yield (size of fruit, and quantity)?
Thanks!
-Bailey
Awesome, thanks for the quick and informative response 😀
HI Brandon… we use the plastic for a couple of reasons… both to increase the temperature of the soil and also to prevent weeds… it works great.
sorry im a young guy trying to get some knowledge here
is that plastic wrap i see underneath the plants? is it used to prevent caterpillars or bugs?
Thanks for the detailed explanation on staking tomatoes.
I notice your tomato setup ressembles very much my vineyard setup with plastic mulch and treillis
yes – that is just bale twine, and you can buy that at any farm supply store.
Hi lovely planting procedure..can you provide me with a supplier who sells the twine you use? Thank you very much.. Joe @ StateniLand@aol.com
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Neem oil at best is a mild IGR insecticide. It costs way to much to extract the azadirachtin regardless of government or god. coppers and sulfurs have been in use for centuries, i.e. bordeaux mixture. They are naturally occurring elements used in concentration. How do you know that Neem oil is safe with no PHI? Just b/c the container says so? I’m not saying that it is or not, fact is that nobody knows. We just think we do and base that off of probabilities.
very informative and well done. I’ll have lots of tomatoes this year!
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We’d recommend checking them at least once a week and removing the suckers.
Unfortunately, Neem oil is no longer permitted for use in Canada and cannot be sold here. We’ve had to discontinue selling it because it isn’t registered as a fungicide. We find the best way to deal with blight is to plant blight resistance varieties.
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there are a lot of things that could cause this; strangely enough, both overwatering and underwatering, excessive and insufficient fertilizer, and early blight. which would be distinguished by patchy yellow blotches…
when under stress from any of the above, or even from outgrowing the containers you have them in, the response of the plant is to sacrifice the oldest, lower leaves first, and pull the nutrients out of them, keeping the fruit and the new growth going…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertilizer_burn
http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/publications/tomatoproblemsolver/leaf/salt.html
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=early+blight+of+tomato&fr=yfp-t-501-s&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8
its not uncommon in all tomato plants as the season progress…