Member discussion regarding the methods, varieties and merits of growing tomatoes.
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#46 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Connecticut
Posts: 1,460
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Well, thank you very much.
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#47 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Connecticut
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Thank you for that info, Bill, I will check it out. Just received some TTF.
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#48 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Newfoundland, Canada
Posts: 6,794
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I do most of my fertilizer at planting time: bone meal, chicken manure this time, chopped up kelp, and compost, but I also have seen the plants need more fertilizer when they start to ripen. This year we are late, but the fruit are not growing as fast or as big as sometimes and I think they needed more fert... already before they do ripe.
Last week I fed my container plants some more 5-4-3 chicken manure and topped with an inch of compost, for lack of anything better. Plants responded well but A week later I'm seeing little white roots on the surface as I have seen before. ![]() ![]() And I found something finally. PROMIX organic based with mycos soluble fert, it is 9-16-16. They give a dilution rate (2 TBS to 5 liters or roughly a gallon of water) but I don't know how the application rate should go for my container plants. They say a gallon for 5 sq meters in the garden or 10 8 inch pots, instead of yay much for x number of 8 ft tall tomato plants. ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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#49 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: Southeastern Pennsylvania
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Bower, I would apply that at a tsp/gallon to container plants. But I wouldn't dose it out--I would use it to water the entire pot, i.e. watering normally to drench the pot until it starts to run out of the bottom.
I'm sure there are many different ways to approach it, though. This is just how I do it with the TTF in my container plants. I will water with that very diluted solution every third or fourth watering. Since you already have some granular in the containers, maybe a little less for you? |
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#50 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Newfoundland, Canada
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Thanks for the advice Gorbelly! I know the 'dialed in' guys are doing the fertigation that is little amount and often. Yeah I was thinking apply some then water as required for the day. Or mix it up per the dilution rate and then dollop that into the water water.
It is stronger than TTF at 9-16-16 afaict. Bill was saying gauge it to the plant and I do have a pair of plants in container that are not setting as well as the others something went amiss. So I may try a bit heavier on them. I'm also thinking to make some kind of mulch-topping to protect the little surface roots I provoked with the chicken manure. I have some crispy dried kelp I could crush up and mix with peat - neither would encourage surface rooting as long as I'm watering the soluble stuff deep into the container. ![]() |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: May 2011
Location: San Antonio, TX Zone 8B
Posts: 118
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