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My assumption is that your question is something like "what' the best way to water these tomato plants using a water bottle system?"
So what you want, I believe, is a slow release of the water into the soil. Your mom is right that a slower flow is best. If the flow of water is too fast it'll just wash right through the soil. That doesn't do the plant any ...
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I'd add one thing - your fruiting plants will need watering daily in those temperatures, but the mist setting on your hose isn't really the thing to use, it's the roots which need watering, not the topgrowth. You'd be better off running the water through the hose at a lower speed and inserting the end of the hose inside the pots and giving them a good soak ...
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Different plants need different amounts of water. Veggies like tomatoes and curcurbits like the warmth and consistent watering. Particularly with tomatoes a consistent watering will help to avoid blossom end rot which is the result of a calcium deficiency that typically happens when watering is haphazard.
The way that I test my containers is to stick my ...
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Cherry trees take at least 3-4 years to blossom, might explain why you are just getting them. I know some plants will also lay dormant for a number of seasons usually weather based. You should not have to water your full grown cherry tree in the spring, sometimes you do not need to at all. If you go any extended period of time in the middle of summer with ...
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Five (or more) year old fruit trees shouldn't need supplemental water if you get enough rain. If you are experiencing a drought, you should water deeply and infrequently. E.g. the bucket-drip method that Kate Gregory mentions, every other week, making sure that you use plenty of water so that it gets deep to the roots.
Frequent watering with small amounts ...
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I'm in zone 7A and get around 43 inches of rainfall a year. Not all that different from where you are. Other than when my trees were young - first year or so - I've only given them water when we hadn't had rain for more than 10 days or so. The roots tend to grow pretty far down (ask me how I know!) and are able to extract water from the soil quite well. ...
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I didn't need to water any of my fruit trees regularly in Ontario, but when they were new the advice I was given was to get a large bucket and put a small hole in the bottom, then put the bucket near the base of the tree and fill it with water. This would release water into the ground slowly enough that it could soak in rather than running off.
If your ...
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Probably either too much water or a pH that is too high (alkaline). You can drown the plant by watering it too much and if the soil doesn't drain well, then excess watering will compound the problem.
You mentioned compost - that's good. But recognize that organic matter holds onto water well - that's one of its virtues - and so if you are watering it too ...
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In my opinion, you are doing right. Your peas show beautiful leaves, well-built and solid, which means they are not underwatered. And if they were overwatered, this would give easily rise to a fungal disease, which is not.
Thus, from the photos you've posted, it seems to me that your pea watering is good.
The white lines you see (in my opinion) are caused ...
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