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Safe water for tomatoes

It is perfectly safe. In fact it is also legal to use gray water to water your plants. Some houses are designed to do this. Gray water is water from kitchen and laundry and in some cases also from ...
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What’s growing on my tomato plant? This is crazy!

This is chocolate tube slime mold. I have never seen it grow on anything other than dead trees before. Your best course of action is to treat with a chlorothalonil fungicide since a copper sulfate ...
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Help identify what is breaking or eating the branches off my plants?

Looks like deer browsing damage given no broken branches on the ground, (so they are being eaten, not just broken off) and the prevalence of deer even in quite built-up areas. If not them, some other ...
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What is eating my garden?

If they are slugs or snails you would have seen them since they will be around. Depending on where you are there can be deer, squirrels, rabbits that will eat up your leaves or plants. If you have a ...
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Safe water for tomatoes

The University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences website includes this: Is reclaimed water safe for irrigating my vegetable garden? The Florida Department of Environmental ...
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Is using tomato slices really viable for starting seedlings?

In Michigan, a friend cut a store-bought Campari tomato in half in the late spring and planted half of each tomato into 2 pots. This first photo is the result on July 30th. The second photo is 2 ...
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What is the cause and Solution to blossom end rot in tomatoes

Blossom-end rot of tomatoes is a physiological phenomenon that is characterized by a dry leathery area at the blossom end of the tomato fruit. This is associated with a localized deficiency of calcium ...
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Will my Tomato saplings grow with the main plant

They will grow. One doesn't inhibit the other. However, you don't want them too crowded. If the saplings are too close, gently pull them out and replant them further away. A good distance would be ...
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Help with Blossom End Rot

There are two possible answers: 1) Your fertilizer regime is providing too much potassium and 2) Your tomato cultivar is a San Marzano or relative. Given that you're supplying adequate moisture, I ...
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What is eating my garden?

The first two pictures show very infant plants. Those are usually protected around here from the cold but also from dogs, snail etc by cutting a two liter soda bottle asunder and inserting the upper ...
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Planted my super sonic tomatoes too close, am I screwed?

Go with "everything seeming OK" as your first clue. I'd agree with Rohit that providing some support for the plants would be good, in part because it will give them more room vertically ...
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Planted my super sonic tomatoes too close, am I screwed?

I would still tie them to stakes. Or if it's next to a fence or on a balcony then tie them to some support. This is, in case your area experiences some strong freakish wind.
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I need help analyzing a soil test result for a tomato and herb garden

High levels are not generally a problem . The plant roots absorb the materials they need. If I wanted only nitrogen , I would add urea. Or many high nitrogen lawn fertilizers are primarily urea.
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Tomato yellowing on lower leaves with bumps

The bumps are probably edema, which is a common condition when starting indoors under lights. I don't see any evidence of blight personally, but maybe others are seeing something I'm not. The bumps ...
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Tomato yellowing on lower leaves with bumps

Probably one of the many fungal blights/diseases that tomatoes are prone to - exactly which one is harder to tell. https://content.ces.ncsu.edu/early-blight-of-tomato Removing the affected leaves and ...
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Will cold weather hurt tomato yields this summer?

While things might be better if you had been able to offer them some protection, in general if they survive, they are already at least a week ahead on dealing with transplant shock, etcetera; .vs. new ...
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Safe water for tomatoes

Microbes can be transmitted to the tomato fruit from leaves, and can even grow within the plant. So cook the tomatoes and wash your hands. There is lots more research done on this. Articles I looked ...
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Why don't my seedlings make true leaves?

How long do you have your grow lights on each day? Try for 14 hours a day.
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Tomato plants longevity

I know I am a bit too late to answer this. But as long as you see a plant looks healthy, you can bring them in. Additionally, you owing to the size of the plant, I think it'd be a cool idea to take ...
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