Can you help identify this fertilizer?
Julie Adair
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Can you help me identify suckers? Photo included
Comments (5)I had a feeling those were just leaves adding to the pretty crown. But I heard so much about suckers and how hard it is to identify them, and how they grow in the middle...that I cut those leaves off. Like an idiot, of course. Will there be any serious consequences to the plant? Or is it simply that I managed to make the plant less lush and full for a while? Will new leaves grow back there? Aaaarghh...maybe I should just leave them alone. Not that it doesn't bother me that they no longer bloom like they did the first month or so after I brought them home from the nursery. Now, three of them have no more flowers - maybe they took a rest from blooming. Only the fourth came up with a new blooming cycle but even this one is not as profuse as when I first got them. I will experiment with disbudding on one of them, now that I have butchered them anyway...:-((( Otherwise, still alive and well after almost 3 months. It's something for a newbie. :-) Thanks so much! PS: I only meant to post the first two pictures....See MoreTomato plant issue, can you help identify?
Comments (16)Ok, the plant above is in a 4' x 16' garden bed, (not the container garden from my other post, and that one had the plastic taken off every day, and put back on at night, and has a thermometer in it for monitoring temps), that I filled 6 weeks ago with compost, composted steer manure, garden soil, some potting mix, vermiculite, 10-10-10 fertilizer, and a little native soil all mixed together. I have a total of 3 beds like this made. I planted out the seedlings that I grew first in peat pellets in the house in front of the window, then transplanted to Cowpots(tm). After they got big enough about 4 inches they lived outside in the shade in the day, then were taken in to the shed at night to harden off, after they were all hardened off, I planted 18 of them in my garden space. (again this is not the container garden that I had protected by plastic only at night). I then had two plants die a Aunt Ruby's German Green, and a Prudens Purple, first they looked a little wilted, and I thought maybe because of the little tiny white flying insects, so I sprayed them with Gardensafe(tm) organic insecticide which is and oil based product. I still had a lot of (I think) white fly's. So then I sprayed them with neem, and that seemed to help. Then I dug out the first two plants and looked them over, they looked like something ate the inside of the main stem. When I planted them they looked really healthy. Now one more plant started to wilt the same way. I am not sure what is going on. I am watering when the top of the soil is drying out, then I am doing the best pest control, with out spraying harsh chemicals, I am thinking of getting some Seven powder to put on them, or diatomaceous earth, but I don't know what to do at this point. I don't know if it is spreading plant to plant from the soil, I don't think so because each plant that died was in a different spot in the garden. I don't know if it is from little flying critters or not. There does seem to be a lot of regular fly's and lots of gnat type bugs in the garden but I don't know if that is a problem or not. I am just concerned that this will spread to all of my other newly planted tomatoes. Thanks all for your help. It really means a lot to me that you take the time to help us "newbies" out. Sammie K....See MoreHelp! Can you identify this fruit?
Comments (8)Each one of those fruit weighs more than all the kumquats I have harvested off my 5 Meiwa trees and 2 Fukushu trees over the past 5 years. Great job on your tree. Congratulations!7 foot in ground outside Fukushu kumquat. Has flowered 4 years in a row....See MoreHelp! Can you help me identify this conifer?
Comments (20)This most recent pic is pretty cool for a couple reasons, among them: The larger plant in the middle (and the one to the right in the foreground) is an example of a plant that I repotted in the brief pause after it had fully opened but before it started growing its first fascicle. The smaller plants (mostly out of focus) show individuals left to grow their first fascicles before repotting. Notice how much bigger the other 2 are at the same age!...See Morepopmama (Colorado, USDA z5)
2 years agotapla (mid-Michigan, USDA z5b-6a)
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2 years agoJulie Adair
2 years agolast modified: 2 years agoBill M.
2 years agopopmama (Colorado, USDA z5)
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popmama (Colorado, USDA z5)