To grow vegetables such as baby tomato plants in tubs, fill the tubs three-quarters full with clay pebbles, dip the tubs in water and then add the right amou…
Question by That is absurd. Cook baby cook!: What to do about brown circles growing at the bottom of my tomatoes?
I am growing tomatoes in a topsy turvy. After my tomatoes sprout, they began to grow a large brown circle at the bottom of them. What shall I do? Help!
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Answer by winterrules
It’s called blossom end rot. The most common cause is lack of calcium. Often the soil has enough calcium but if there isn’t enough water the plant can’t use the available calcium. If more water doesn’t work add bone meal to the soil.
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Of course. Plants create their own food through the process of photosynthesis.
“And that’s how you grow vegetables in tubs?” …wait, what? You provided pretty much zero useful information and are giving a terribly false impression that it is easy to do this.
What pH are the nutrients at? What ratio of N-P-K? What concentration (EC)? How often do you change it? What kind of lighting do you provide, at what distance?
Also, unless those are Micro Tom tomatoes, that spacing of net pots is absurdly small.
do they still need sunlight?
I know absolutely nothing about indoor gardening (or outdoor, for that matter). Can you purchase the tub like that or do you have to create the holes you put the plants in yourself? I live in an apartment and I am interested in growing plants for juicing. Can all of the supplies you use in the video be purchased in a gardening store?
Sweet! are you using botanicare? it kinda looked like the bottle.
Bottom end rot IS the correct answer. I crush egg shells into my soil when I plant ANY tomatoes. Topsy turvys are BAD ideas. Water washes the nutrients out of the soil very quickly. You need to add nutrients every time you water and add calcium to the soil. The bigger the plans get, the more they require.
yes a lack of calcium, cut them off and burn , get some dolomite lime ,mix with water and soak round the plants , also a packet of epsom salts wouldn’t go amiss either .
bone meal and egg shell will not dissolve fast enough to become available to your plants this season,and epsom salts is magnesium sulfate, hence wont supply calcium…get superfine ground limestone and water it in…
btw, if god had meant plants to grow upside down he would have installed the soil in the sky…