Florida Hot Weather Tomatoes - Fact or Fiction?
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Organic fungus controls -- fact or fiction?
Comments (5)Anney, cornmeal controls fungus in only three 'families'. Both Dchall I have posted and covered this many times. Do a search and you should be able to pull up those old threads. As I have said before, it is important to take samples of a fungus problem to your extention service for identification, including the Latin name(s). With the Latin name in hand and through Google you should be able to find suggested organic treatments. I would suspect that your squash is bothered with powdery mildew. The control is any milk product mixed 25% to 50% water and sprayed on the leaves once a week. Cornmeal will not control this type of fungus. Your question leads me to my present aspirin experiment. Aspirin does not control fungus/diseases or virus problems on a plant. Rather, aspirin treatments begun early in the spring or on seedlings when they set their second set of leaves and repeated weekly does appear to aid a plant to develop the ability to develop a resistance to the above mentioned problems. This year I am experimenting, testing if a plant has the ability to absorb aspirin through the roots or must it be sprayed on the leaves. It is too early in the season to draw any conclusions. More on that later....See MoreFact or fiction?
Comments (12)We got over 2" here, so it most certainly did water the roots of most things. Rainwater is different from irrigation water though. City water is treated with disinfectants and often has pH buffers added to keep it alkaline to protect the city's pipes from corrosion. It's not ideal for plant growth. Rainwater has extra nitrogen in it from the atmosphere, which is mainly nitrogen gas, plus trace elements of different nutrients from air pollution - sulfur and such. And there's no sodium in rainwater, which there might be some in city or well water in desert areas. Plants hate sodium. The only minerals in rainwater are those that are floating around in the air. As well as the soaking of the foliage, which does absorb water and nutrients, and the high humidity. Well water does not have the disinfectants and buffers of city water but it still doesn't match rainwater because of the canopy soaking and humidity factors. I don't think it's the oxygenation of boiled water that improves plant growth! boiling drives out oxygen and makes water taste flat. Plant roots use air oxygen, not dissolved oxygen. Boiling removes chlorine. So does letting it sit in a bucket for 24 hours, which is recommended for watering potted plants and topping off aquariums....See MoreHot Weather Tomatoes
Comments (15)I know this is late (nearly 1 1/2 years late). I live in Las Vegas (Sunset Zone 11). The Tomato Lady recommends Hawaiian tomatoes. I personally have had good luck with Hawaiian, Patio, and all heirloom Varieties from Italy that I've tried. I have successfully Grown the following Heirlooms in the Vegas Desert (I'm at 2900 ft elevation while the Vegas Valley is closer to 1800 ft.): - Aunt Lucy's Paste - Marzano - Italian Tree source for these seeds is out of california. Website: www.tomatofest.com. I have also had good success with some from Mexico. Good luck! Here is a link that might be useful: TomatoFest...See Morestrategy for hot weather fertilization of tomatoes?
Comments (4)Well, I've got plenty of P, K, and trace nutrients in my soil. The plants certainly aren't go to starve if they aren't given a balanced fertilizer. In fact, at this stage, I could probably simply stop fertilizing altogether. The issue is whether increased nitrogen, which is a slam-dunk, can benefit the existing crop. I have some left-over lawn fertilizer, and the tomato foliage is licking it's lips (did you know that tomato foliage had lips?) when I walk past with the bag. The only reason for NOT hitting tomatoes hard with nitrogen is to encourage fruiting. But that's done. That reason isn't relevant anymore. Keeping the plants going for a fall crop really isn't all that important to me. Falls are shorter than springs around here anyway, and fall tomato crops are thereby dicey. Planting new plants is cheaper and less labor intensive? How so? In both cases you have to water and fertilize, and in the case of new plants I need to seed and nurture seedlings. If you have fungal infestation in a bed, and you plant new plants there, the same fungus will latch onto those new ones....See Morecarolb_w_fl_coastal_9b
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