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herbicide damage? please help
Posted by SunshineZone7(7)
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lycomania(5b)Updated The first (or second?) year I planted tomatoes, full of beginner's fervor, I had some big herbicide damage midway through the season. I recalled that my neighbor (who is a wonderful neighbor) sprayed Roundup on gravel driveway are...
Roma tomatoes on small plant
Posted by hyde961
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hyde961Updated Glad to hear it, thank you.
Tomato leaves are curling and turning yellow, any ideas??
Posted by jcpyburn(z7b/8 West Texas)
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jcpyburn(z7b/8 West Texas)Updated I first posted this a little over a month ago. Since that time I have removed all the affected foliage and sprayed with daconil. It didn't help and this just kept spreading so I started pulling plants. Finally, today I pulled one ...
Will stalled tomato growth resume later?
Posted by einniv
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einnivUpdated Good idea but, when I noticed a few days of what seemed like no growth I did fertilize. I think that is what sparked the new leaf and stem growth. I'm just wondering if it is normal for tomatoes to stall out from time to time, or ...
Tomatoes seem to be growing VERY slowly
Posted by ilovecucumbers Zone 6b, NE PA
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livetaswim06(6A)Updated As for the fertilizer, I think that depends on which kind you use. As for leaves being much larger on the ends, that should be because they have more sun access while the interior leaves don't get much.
Anybody with ripe tomatoes in Z5 yet?
Posted by edweather(Zone 5a/b Central NY)
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sleevendog (5a NY)(5a NY)Updated That is impressive! Would love a BLT on the 4th of July... (Might need to replace the heater with an ac unit this year.) Looking at my garden notes this morning i noticed in 2005 i had first blush July 25th and two full salad beds...
cage extending ideas?
Posted by njitgrad(6A/6B)
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macbettzUpdated I do, but I wont bother as it will probably not mesh with your design asethic and perfectly spaced veggie and flower pots.
help! yellow leaves & ber container tomatoes
Posted by kenzo(6)
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sharonrossyUpdated I only container grow for the most part and use the 5-1-1 mix that you will find on the container growing forum and the link was given to you. The other option is to use something like Promix BX or HP, whichever is available to yo...
Beefsteak or cherry?
Posted by cholan2100
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cholan2100Updated All plants turned out to produce same plums. We don't use much of cherrys around here in India, salad isn't our regular food habit. Time to give away a lot of cherrys!
Tomato leaves and flowers curled/weak
Posted by cholan2100
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cholan2100Updated fruitee
And Bloody Butcher wins the race
Posted by CaraRose
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2ajsmamaUpdated Ah, so the tomatoes were pretty big (flowers?) when you planted them out. Mine weren't started that much later, but were in 4" pots as transplants so were maybe 6" tall, some may have been 8-10" but I planted deep. ...
Tomato plant Emergency!!!
Posted by Just1tomatoplantplz
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plaidbirdUpdated Is the utube video the same one with the guy with the sick, tomatoes ? The ones he cleaned up but forgot the ones in the background. Then says he did all this on purpose. I'm not going there. This seems to be the tomato version of...
Time for deconil??
Posted by kjameswv
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edweather(Zone 5a/b Central NY)Updated Not sure, but you know how the old saying goes...."Never to thin or too rich or to early for Daconil." :-) I spray mine from early summer on.
Differences between determinate and indeterminate
Posted by organic_flutterby(5 MO)
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carolyn137(z4/5 NY)Updated There are some dets that do produce all season, but not many of them do so. From a biologic/botonic point of view the two, ind and det, are defined by the internode distances between branches that give rise to blossoms and fruits....
Trellising Down
Posted by hudson___wy(3)
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seysonn(8a WA/HZ 1)Updated Yeah, eventually it should cascade down by its own weight. But you can provide some guidance.
Golf ball sized mold or eggs on stems?
Posted by Cdon(7a)
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Cdon(7a)Updated As a follow up, yes Carolyn, it looks like you nailed it with the "dog barf" fungus. Thank you all very much for the info. In this case, I am glad to know it is nothing to worry about. Happy growing all!
yellow leaves on tomatoes ...
Posted by djonesc(zone 5/99022 - spokane area)
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digdirt2Updated Extreme wet weather, just as with over-watering, is a common cause of yellowing leaves. See discussions and photos linked below. Dave Here is a link that might be useful: Yellowing leaves discussions
marks on my tomatoes
Posted by organic_flutterby(5 MO)
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seysonn(8a WA/HZ 1)Updated Definitely your very first picture depict a defect due to some possible culprits damage. One can see the chewing marks. In the above two picture also they are not typical catfacing either (IMO) catfacing is normally centered aroun...
what's this?
Posted by matt_in_va
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edweather(Zone 5a/b Central NY)Updated The good news is that you caught them quickly, and not when the tomatoes were almost full sized.
tasteless
Posted by deadhead61
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carolyn137(z4/5 NY)Updated In the link below Tania explains some of the info about this variety that many of us have problems with. Baker Creek is not the only source of seeds, see link below, but as I recall Solana in Canada does not ship to the US, Diane'...
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