Can I prune my sprawling monstera??
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Can Monstera Variegata and regular Monstera live in the same pot?
Comments (5)Heh... that's not a problem - that's the end goal. :-) I've seen an absolutely huge Monstera in a university prof's office, in a not-so-big pot, too, and I'd love to have one like that. My concern is - would the regular Monstera eventually edge out the wimpier variegated one?...See Morehard pruned my yews - can I prune more now?
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Comments (11)th102 now is not the ideal time to prune your tree. Having said that. It will still leaf out and produce fruit if you prune it now. The longer you wait the more sap will be flowing thought the tree and the tree will lose more of its energy due to losing more sap. Keep in mind that pruning while the tree is no longer dormant will be a shock to the tree. Thus it will likely appear to stop the active growing process for 1-3 weeks. Your fruiting and ripening cycle this season will also likely be delayed/slowed by roughly the same amount of time....See MoreIs my problem I let my tomato plants sprawl?
Comments (8)" My biggest problems are blossom end rot, sunscald, vines withering, and tomatoes rotting before they ripen. " **** It seems to me that you need to make some diagnoses first in order to understand what's going on. And having grown over 2000 different varieties, most of them by sprawling, I can't see that any of the above would be directly related to how you grow your tomatoes. I have quite a few friends in S Cal and they also grown theirs by sprawling as long as they don't have a Root Knot Nematode or Fusarium problem in their soil. Questions to ask are whether the wilted plants are wilting due to lack of water or due to systemic diseases such as RKN's or Fusarium, which are a problem for lots of folks in s Cal. Or are you dealing with the more common folaige diseases that can be found almost everywhere. The latter are not usually associated with wilting, though. Are the rottinmg fruits only those fruiits that make contact with the soil? Or are the plants so close together and humidity high from irrigation that the fungi and bacteria known to infect fruits under those conditions are the problem. Sunscald is usually due to lack of adequate foliage cover and/or exposure of fruits after harvest has started and rearrangement of the vines. BER is a complex physiological problem with many variables and right now there's lots of other issues to attack, but you might read the article on BER in the FAQ at the top of this first page. Finally, and I think the most important, is when you're growing your tomatoes. Almost all my S Cal friends grow two crops a year b'c trying to keep plants going thru the hot summer and get decent fruit set is not a good idea. So growing two crops a year I think you might consider. Hope that helps. Carolyn...See MoreRelated Professionals
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