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re: Tomato plant question
Posted on 5/4/21 at 9:58 am to PillageUrVillage
Posted on 5/4/21 at 9:58 am to PillageUrVillage
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What she don’t know won’t hurt her.
I started using a 4-26-26 fertilizer on my tomatoes. After just a couple of days after feeding they are loaded with flowers. Once they start blooming, find something higher in P and K, lower on the N. High N while they’re fruiting can cause blossom end rot.
I've always just sprayed calcium on them once every week or 2, is that not enough? I do my initial fertilizer when planting, MG stuff for vegetable plants and after that, just calcium
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Posted on 5/4/21 at 10:04 am to windshieldman
The biggest thing is to back off on the Nitrogen, which you are doing. If it works, no reason to change.
BER is a caused by calcium deficiency, but normally it’s not because there isn’t enough calcium in the soil. Nitrogen causes rapid growth which can stretch the cell walls thin. Calcium can’t get taken up fast enough. You get BER.
Also, inconsistent watering can have a similar effect. Usually those two things are the cause and not insufficient calcium in the soil.
BER is a caused by calcium deficiency, but normally it’s not because there isn’t enough calcium in the soil. Nitrogen causes rapid growth which can stretch the cell walls thin. Calcium can’t get taken up fast enough. You get BER.
Also, inconsistent watering can have a similar effect. Usually those two things are the cause and not insufficient calcium in the soil.
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