Extremely Dry Skin/Cause????
Dancey
19 years ago
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extremely low pH cause tomatoes to wilt?
Comments (7)It seems the subject has change a bit since I last checked, but FWIW - Check out what the professionals are doing: http://www.cornellcea.com/handbook_home.htm Cornell has put out a few hydroponic grow handbooks, and they're definitely worth taking a look at. They use rafts to grow their lettuce, too. The lettuce book states PPMs, light regimens, and PH. The PH and ppms are in normal units, but the light regimen is in Mol/day (17 if I remember). I did some research in how to translate this to watts, and I figured this equates to 7, 4' fluorescent bulbs per meter squared on an 18/6 cycle. That's roughly 25 watts per square foot. That's pretty modest if you ask me. Of course Cornell is running CO2, temp controls, and pure O2 bubbling into the water, so maybe Cornell's light regimen doesn't translate into a home grow....See MoreBlack swallow-wort causing skin irritation?
Comments (19)Burning the pods is recommended? And the fumes wouldn't contain the toxicity....? BDSV must be different from poison ivy then. The Monarchs is what determined me to do my level best to eradicate all mine (& my close neighbor's). It took me 3 years with a LOT of handpulling, and luckily I never got as bad an adverse reaction as some on this thread. (Just a very mild rash once when I forgot gloves & holding my breath when pulling out the bigger, more mature plants with pods in the very first season.) They are MUCH reduced now, & I never get the pods, but the tiny thin filaments still try to poke up out of the ground underneath some of my other valued plants such as hostas & hydrangeas. Eternal vigilance is needed to fight these dreadful weeds!!...See MoreWhat causes hard to chew tomato skin?
Comments (13)So heat and lack of water can't explain the tough skin on my tomatoes. Yes, it can. As homegardenpa said the issue isn't a matter of not receiving water. The issue is was the water level in the soil maintained at a consistent level throughout the day? It is the consistency of the soil moisture that is important, not how many times you may have watered each day. And in containers, especially smaller ones as you have mentioned you are using in other posts, it simply can't be maintained at a consistent level. Regardless of the air temps, the larger the container the slower the moisture level fluctuates. The smaller the container the quicker it dries out. Especially when temps top 90 degrees. Sure you can water everyday at 9 am and make the soil really wet, probably too wet. But that moisture evaporates throughout the day. Especially if the plants aren't heavily mulched. So the soil moisture level isn't the same at 1pm as it was when you watered at 9am. It is even less at 6 pm etc. Yet all that day the tissue and skin of the fruit was still developing while it had less and less moisture to draw on. While large self watering containers, monitored carefully to keep water in them can work, the only proven way to maintain consistent soil moisture levels in containers is with large containers, heavy mulching, and a drip irrigation system set on a very slow drip feed on an auto timer. Otherwise all you can do is take a moisture meter out hourly and check the soil and adjust the moisture level accordingly and that simply isn't practical. Dave...See MoreDry,itchy flakey skin
Comments (1)IMO, weekly bathing of a dog is excessive. Labs have a natural oil in their coats which protects them when they are in the water retriving ducks....See Moresheri60
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