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All vegetables are drying up

9 years ago

Well now I find that all my vegetables are drying up.
What its going on
I stopped the over watering and I sprayed withe vinegar and water.
Look at my pictures
help I need suggestions

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mdfarmer
9 years ago
Vinegar is an herbicide. If you spray your vegetables with vinegar it will kill them.
howelbama
9 years ago
Oh man :( who told you to spray them with vinegar? sad face...
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edweather USDA 9a, HZ 9, Sunset 28
9 years ago
Yes, unfortunately those look done. Am also curious about why you sprayed with vinegar? Can you pull them and plant new?
theforgottenone1013 (SE MI zone 5b/6a)
9 years ago
Don't know where you got the idea or where you read to spray with vinegar (can you give a source?). I'm afraid they are toast.

Edited to add: After a quick search I found a couple of other posts by the OP.

Tomatoes leaves drying up

Mealybugs

Rodney

This post was edited by theforgottenone1013 on Mon, Jun 2, 14 at 17:09
AiliDeSpain
9 years ago
Vinegar? You just killed your plants!
ltilton
9 years ago
I've seen quite a lot of posts here and there on this site touting vinegar as a "natural" solution for whatever.

Seems to be a meme going around, and this is what happens.
shermthewerm
9 years ago
I've successfully eradicated morning glory with vinegar so I can imagine what it would do to tomatoes. What a bummer!
edweather USDA 9a, HZ 9, Sunset 28
9 years ago
Maybe you read something about adding vinegar to water to lower the pH of the water to water plants with. But as a foliar spray definitely a no no.
ltilton
9 years ago
It was someone posting about using vinegar as a fungicide.
horse727
Original Author
9 years ago
I also added a Top soil the cheap one from Home Depot and after that they started dying .
Could be be it?
loribee2
9 years ago
No. With 100% certainty, what killed it was spraying it with vinegar and water.

I searched this forum and could not find any post where that was recommended. Very confused by that one.
gardenper
9 years ago
The main stem actually still looks pretty healthy. It's possible that you'll get new leaf growth.

Just immediately stop with the vinegar spray.

You can also take a backup plan and remove some of the plants and start over with plant starts from the store. Leave a few of your originals to give it a chance to recover, if you want.,
planterjeff
9 years ago
Well now you know. Vinegar is not good for live plants, but it is very good at killing live plants. Since you really have no other option, I am with gardenper. Try to salvage them by flushing them with clean water, a lot of water. Do a foliage flush and a root flush. Throw your vinegar solution away! After flushing them, trim any branches/leaves that are completely dead/obviously on their way out, and then I'd give them a batch of fertilizer. I don't typically spout the use of miracle grow, but go for it!! There is a possibility that they have enough energy stored up to make it leafless for a couple weeks. The miracle grow may give it enough nitrogen to start immediate leaf growth. I had a hibiscus this year that got a shot from the neighbors herbicide and I had to do this exact same method. It has rebounded amazingly! There is a chance the fert will finish her off, but you really don't have any options. You need new healthy growth asap!
horse727
Original Author
9 years ago
I also noticed that my cucumber are deformed look at the pictures is that normal?
theforgottenone1013 (SE MI zone 5b/6a)
9 years ago
Occasionally cukes are deformed like that. However, in the photo, I see no leaves except for one. And that leaf is brown and shriveled up. That is not normal. On a healthy cucumber plant there should be a lot, and I do mean a lot, more leaves than I see. You didn't spray with vinegar again, did you?

Rodney
lilyd74 (5b sw MI)
9 years ago
That cuke also looks like it may have sat too long on the vine without being picked. Did it look better a week ago?

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