re: 2019 Garden Thread

I had blossom end rot in my 12" bush type tomato pots. Now I use 18" pots and 2 times add bone meal and once add super phosphate as well as crushed egg shells. No more rot. The bigger pots hold more water and the bone meal/phosphate/egg shells cure the rest.

I grow slicing tomatoes in my small garden for myself but my wife loves the smaller, less juicy bush types. She eats about 6-7 a day during season. Believe it or not she loves Patio types. So I pot about 20 Patio's and they grow 2 ft or so and produce like mad. 30-50 per plant. But the pots need more maint like water and organic nutrients added. Keeping them watered washes out nutrients so you've gotta hit them with low nitrogen, high Potassium and potash + Cal about 3 times in a modest fashion.

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I had a pepper plant randomly wilt today. No sign of disease or anything. All I can think of is the weather and wind over the past few days got to it. The trunk is pretty loose in the soil so I’m thinking it may have gotten some root damage/separation or something. I cut all the peppers off of it to try to save it, but it ain’t looking good. RIP little friend.

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Had this happen randomly with a pepper plant last year and a single tomato plant this year. Both were in containers with other plants that showed no signs of distress. Just over night wilted, next day after completely dead. I’m writing both off as root rot due to too much rain, no obvious insect damage at the stems and both plants were supported, but died as if they had been cut down. I just chock it up to the game and try to resist the urge to overwater when it’s dry.

I’m thinking the same. Got 5” of rain at my house in a couple days.

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My tomato plants look rough.

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Most of my cherry tomatoes do as well. This weather has given me fits. All of my squash plants looked like they had drowned yesterday morning but perked up by the evening. I had a pepper plant that looked all wilted as well. It perked up too. I'm guessing just too much rain for an extended period had them on the ropes.

Here you go. Since I added the osmocote and epsom salt I don’t notice any new yellowing.

Weird. You think it was magnesium? I think the TTF has magnesium in it, but I added epsom salt a couple times to the solution. Also put some in the planting hole.

Luckily it looks like the sun will be out all week. Hopefully that’ll give some of the struggling plants some time to rebound. Even though they look a little rough the tomato plants are still making some fruit. Probably not as much as they should be though. Took these pictures yesterday.

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Pillage, could you please post the peroxide spray and bleach spray recipes again? Or tell me where to find them in this thread. I cannot seem to find them. Thank you.

bluemoons' post about the bleach spray

Peroxide mixing charts

The peroxide spray has helped me get control of the fungus on my plants, but the earlier you can start spraying the better. Cause some of my more infected plants look kinda rough. Some of my healthier plants that weren’t as infected look great.

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