My favorite gardening channel. So much knowledge here and as a newer gardener this information will save me a lot of headache. There’s nothing worse than killing some crops and having to wait a year to try again.
Thank you for your advice. Here in Nevada my tomatoes seem to love the dry air. Incidentally, last year I planted a Native American corn seed that was 20 years old. Out of 65 starts only 11 came up. I did the same this year but used your seed starting mix. Out of 65 starts I had 26 come up! I’ve used your mix with all my seeds and have noticed a significant germination rate improvement!! My plants are healthier and thriving. I’m so pleased and have you to thank! Blessings to you and your family.
Very helpful. I was experiencing a lot of BER in my greenhouse and this gave me some really good insights. I was aware of calcium deficiency but not the heat n humidity factors. I made some nice raised bed planters for my greenhouse but they dry out quickly during a warm sunny day. Having a better understanding of how everything interacts is fundamentally important. Thx
Great video. You can buy a product from Build a Soil called GroCal, it's a liquid that you mix with water and then foliar spray your tomato plants in the evening
I’m in NJ near the coast so tomatoes tend to grow like weeds. I had my best tomato season growing inside the tunnel last year. The tomatoes don’t suffer from windy thunderstorms and torrential rainfall. I’m also using the Qlipr system with wickets to better manage the growth of the tomatoes.
Great,glad that the tunnel is working for you! I sure enjoy mine, that's where all the world record tomatoes have been grown,I just finished redoing my evaporative cooling system yesterday. I don't use the wicket system from neversink farms as my giants are never taller than 4'. May God bless you!
I've used Cal-Mag before and it seemed to help. I am going to re-watch your tomato planting one so I can prepare my soil better ahead of time! Thank you for another great video :)
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I love your content! Your videos are so thorough and you are both so fun to watch. Your inventions are so cool too ;) I want to try making the compost/worm casting tea bubbler! Blessings to both of you! ❤ Also, I’ve noticed that RUclips has unsubscribed me from your channel several times. You might want to say something on your videos to have people check to see if they are still subscribed. This is the 3rd or 4th time I had to re-subscribe! 🤔 Much love 💗
Glad you like our videos! If you have lacking biological activity in your soil, you should see results from the compost tea. Thank you for the info about RUclips auto-unsubscribing you. I'll make a mention of that in some of our future videos for sure! Appreciate your care in letting me know! Have a wonderful evening!
I have read that egg shells can take years to break down in the soil to become available for plants to take up. Baking them dry and using a blender creates a huge surface area, which speeds decomposition. I use a little white vinegar to turn the crushed and cooked eggshells into calcium acetate, which is water soluble. My romas are getting some BER currently, and I think you let me know what is causing it. Temp and humidity race to see who gets to 100 first where I am at. I may cut back the growing ends and see if that cuts down on losses to BER.
Many thanks again to you your Dad! There are so many young growers out there who go with too much hype, and lack the many years of experience. On the subject of tomato growing. I have heard (not BER related) that the first nation's people used to bury fish for their tomato growth. Has this been proven ?
I found Monday that one of my plants (I have to grow in containers) had blossom end rot. I believe I must have missed watering it one day. The soil was not moist and the roots, I could feel were growing well but were very close to the top of the soil. It had grown well and quickly. I thought it was still very moist because of all the rain we’d had in May here in the mid-Atlantic area. Also, because I was limited with funds and opportunity to get supplies, the plant needed more soil added to its 20 gallon container. I figured if it doesn’t have enough soil, it can’t hold sufficient water therefore, the water perhaps could not carry the nutrients to the tomato. Imagine how I feel, my first time growing this much talked about Black Krim tomato, which I have also never tasted, and it looks like I might blow it. Thank you, I will be watching your soil prep videos. I’m 69 years old and don’t know how long I have to grow veggies but, I will keep going as long as I can, this is my 5th year working at it.
I grow great Tomatoes in 5 gallon buckets. You don't need 20 or even 10 gallon container for great Tomatoes. A 5 or 7 gallon is plenty. Just make sure to use good potting soil. Top soil or soil out of the yard won't do. It has to be potting soil for reliable results. I don't know your growing season but if you're far enough south like I am you can still grow a Fall Tomato crop. My Fall Tomatoes in containers grow better then the Spring ones do.
@@GardeningHomesteadingWoodwork I started with adding leaf compost, bone meal, blood meal, just a half cup maybe of dolomite lime. I had to wait a week or so to add Alaska fish emulsion.
@@GardeningHomesteadingWoodwork I'm not sure if you're asking me or the person with the original comment I responded to? As for me I use potting soil from Miracle Grow. I also add additional Miracle Grow every 10 days or so. I put it in after sunset so the plant has all night to absorb it before watering the next morning. I change soil each year. I refurbish the old soil for continued use also.
@@lynnglidewell7367 with indeterminate tomatoes? In the past I used 15 gal. for them. I’m growing some TOMATO FEST DWARFS this year in 7 and 10 gallons, they seem a little small to me.
Instead of grinding eggshells and putting them in soil, I grind the shells and then soak them in vinegar to dissolve the calcium into calcium acetate which is plant available. Then I dilute a tablespoon or 2 into a gallon of water. Using this every couple weeks have helped keep BER away, plus it’s using a waste product. The leftover shells get added to my worm bin more for grit but also to pre compost the added shells.
@MsLookinup as for how to dilute and ratio of vinegar to crushed eggshell it’s roughly 10:1 @@bryannakvinda8411 is exactly right! As for how long to soak the eggshells in vinegar it depends on how finely crushed they are, but generally 3-4 days or until no more bubbles are causing the eggshells to rise. A word of warning, the finer you grind them, the more foam will be made initially which can cause a bit of mess so use an extra large container unless the shells are a bit coarse.
i've seen on your videos how you don't till. How do you deal with those big white grubs that i believe are also called cutworms? Also, do you have a video on your process for saving tomato seeds? if not, can you make one this fall? Thank you!
Thankfully I don't have to deal with grubs,it may be because of beneficial nematodes. We haven't made a video on saving tomato seeds yet so thanks for the suggestion! Have a blessed day!
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I use eggshells when I have that problem, I just save up my eggshells good big bowl full get out the blender and turn them to dust works fantastic.😎🙏🇺🇸👍
There's no way of me knowing how to water your garden, it ALL depends on temperature, rainfall,wind, soil composition etc. Impossible for anyone to tell you correctly what to do. May God bless you!
@@GardeningHomesteadingWoodwork How will I know when I've watered long enough, using a dripline, soaker hose, or something similar, so the garden is watered sufficiently? I'm new to doing this and might have worded that incorrectly. Do you have a video, or have any words of wisdom you could share so I can figure out how to know when I've watered the garden long enough? At least then I can know to check it every 15 minutes or 30 minutes (don't know how long to let the water on), and know a way to know that I watered enough? Thank you, and may God bless you too :)
That's a tuff one! My biggest problem with eggplants are flea beetles and aphids,for flea beetles the best solution is beneficial nematodes, you can also spray surround on the plants,surround is a natural ultra fine white clay that is water soluble, the negative with it is it makes the plant white which looks really ugly in my opinion 😂 trust this is helpful info for you,have a blessed evening!
The Spring weather just went way out of the normal range here in North Alabama in 2024. I had 98, 99, 100, degree temperatures with high humidity by first week of June, and then continued elevated 90+ degree temperatures for the entire month. You aren't going to fix that no matter what you do. I've pulled a dozen Tomatoes or more from the plants already with blossom end rot. Small ones not as big as a golf ball still green that are coming down with it. Fortunately here we get a second growing season for Fall to try again. I've pulled enough suckers from my plants I'm rerooting in water to plant at end of July for The Fall. Conditions just don't favor good Tomato crop this Summer, the rains have dried up as well. So I'll pick them Green and make Green Tomato Relish with mine this Summer. You can even cut the end rot off them and use the rest in a relish as well. So it won't be a total loss but I will miss my garden fresh ripe Tomatoes which I normally would be starting to have already in any typical year.
Try using calcium nitrate ,it's synthetic but it's the quickest way to deal with it , if you want organic you can try water soluble gypsum but it's much slower acting,you could drench any plants that don't have it yet and see if it prevents it.
The water soluble gypsum is fairly quick acting but if you want something quicker you'd have to go the synthetic route wich is calcium nitrate, May God bless you!
@@GardeningHomesteadingWoodwork Could you recommend a brand to use of this Calcium Nitrate? I too have BER on my tomatoes that I'm growing on my patio. I am new to growing a garden and would like to get some good tomatoes and don't want to put the wrong stuff on them. All your advice is so appreciated!!! Thank you and God Bless you for making video's like this for all of us who need help!
Any brand is fine as it may all come from just a couple manufacturers,remember it's synthetic and I don't recommend using any synthetic amendments or fertilizer because it's detrimental to your soil biology. Blessings to you!
My tomatoes 🍅 look good about %30 red with no rot spots when I pick mine, however some after a few days 100% red start to show a dime size rot. Do you have an idea why? All the tomatoes on the plant before picking looks great.
I'm sorry that you're having problems with your tomatoes, unfortunately I'm not much help when it comes to diseases as I don't have any,if your soil has a thriving biology which means that you can't be using any synthetic fertilizer or fungicides you usually don't have any issues! Good Compost is one of the best things you can incorporate into or on top of your soil,and by the way try to do no-till as well. May God bless you!
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Do you have to get rid of the entire plant if the plant gets BER? What about watermelons? You talked about prevention. What do you do if you get BER? Thank you for your expertise.
Oh no you don't have to discard the plant,it's not a disease it's just a lack of calcium getting to the fruit,lot of times it'll clear up by itself! Not sure what you're asking about watermelons. I talked in one of the videos about what to do about ber. Blessings to you!
Two things. Low soil calcium is quite rare, and only a soil test will tell you that, so save your money. BER is a calcium transportation problem. It typically happens when there are wide swings in soil moisture. You can have all the calcium in the world in your soil, but without consistent watering, you will have BER. This is well understood by scientists and those who produce tomatoes as market gardeners. There are a few other things that can contribute to BER, but the first thing to concentrate on is water. Avoid those wide swings in soil moisture.
Bone meal doesn't have as much calcium in it as gypsum, but with bonemeal you get phosphorus and nitrogen and nitrogen is definitely not what competition growers need so that is why I stay away from bonemeal. Fishbone meal is better that other types of bonemeal. Have a blessed day!
This isn't a blossom end rot question, but a blight question. Can you give your opinion on using aspirin to help prevent blight? I see a lot of channels recommending either putting aspirin in the planting hole or mixing a slurry & spraying their plants. So far I am really hesitant to do this. I can usually beat early blight by giving enough space between the tomatoes, pruning to a single stem, mulching, trimming the bottom leaves, etc... however, our climate is so humid, I always get late blight. I have seen people using aspirin, spraying with baking soda & Neem oil or other sprays. I have tried Neem oil, however I still get late blight. Do you have any suggestions that you can share?
Yes the salicylic acid in aspirin is what helps prevent late blight but I would prefer not to treat it in that way,my approach would be to increase your biology in your soil so that the plant would have a strong immune system to resist any of the diseases that might try to take it down, with a healthy soil your brix would be higher as well which is an overall indicator of plant health, you can buy a refractometer which will give you the brix number, hope this helps and may God bless you!
It depends on how much is in your soil,but you can try 1/8tsp but don't apply more than once a month ,better to have soil test to see what your levels are,but who am I to say you should test your soil because I never have 🤣 I go by looking at the plant and letting it show me what it needs.
No that's not what I'm saying at all,just throw out the fruit that's effected not the plant,you can still get plenty of good fruit off of it as long as you can control the ber.
My favorite gardening channel. So much knowledge here and as a newer gardener this information will save me a lot of headache. There’s nothing worse than killing some crops and having to wait a year to try again.
That's great to hear! Thanks for your nice comment! Blessings!
Thank you for your advice. Here in Nevada my tomatoes seem to love the dry air. Incidentally, last year I planted a Native American corn seed that was 20 years old. Out of 65 starts only 11 came up. I did the same this year but used your seed starting mix. Out of 65 starts I had 26 come up! I’ve used your mix with all my seeds and have noticed a significant germination rate improvement!! My plants are healthier and thriving. I’m so pleased and have you to thank! Blessings to you and your family.
The bit about the humidity is good to know! I was always told that to cool down your greenhouse you should wet the floor
Very helpful. I was experiencing a lot of BER in my greenhouse and this gave me some really good insights. I was aware of calcium deficiency but not the heat n humidity factors. I made some nice raised bed planters for my greenhouse but they dry out quickly during a warm sunny day. Having a better understanding of how everything interacts is fundamentally important. Thx
Luke and Dan, great job men. Loved this one.
Great video. You can buy a product from Build a Soil called GroCal, it's a liquid that you mix with water and then foliar spray your tomato plants in the evening
Great video guys. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us.
Our pleasure!
Thanks for answering my question from the live stream! You guys are the best!
Happy to! Thanks for being on the livestream! Take care!
I’m in NJ near the coast so tomatoes tend to grow like weeds. I had my best tomato season growing inside the tunnel last year. The tomatoes don’t suffer from windy thunderstorms and torrential rainfall. I’m also using the Qlipr system with wickets to better manage the growth of the tomatoes.
Great,glad that the tunnel is working for you! I sure enjoy mine, that's where all the world record tomatoes have been grown,I just finished redoing my evaporative cooling system yesterday. I don't use the wicket system from neversink farms as my giants are never taller than 4'. May God bless you!
Thank you for sharing your wisdom and experience. I just found your channel and I’m in awe.
Glad to have you here on our channel! Blessings!
I've used Cal-Mag before and it seemed to help. I am going to re-watch your tomato planting one so I can prepare my soil better ahead of time! Thank you for another great video :)
Your very welcome!
Great tips guys!
Good to hear! Thanks for watching! God bless!
Thank you for including Jesus❤. He is the original gardener and will happily bless our gardens with abundance if we just ask❤
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Please. Stop pushing the cult. ffs
I love your content! Your videos are so thorough and you are both so fun to watch. Your inventions are so cool too ;) I want to try making the compost/worm casting tea bubbler! Blessings to both of you! ❤ Also, I’ve noticed that RUclips has unsubscribed me from your channel several times. You might want to say something on your videos to have people check to see if they are still subscribed. This is the 3rd or 4th time I had to re-subscribe! 🤔 Much love 💗
Glad you like our videos! If you have lacking biological activity in your soil, you should see results from the compost tea. Thank you for the info about RUclips auto-unsubscribing you. I'll make a mention of that in some of our future videos for sure! Appreciate your care in letting me know! Have a wonderful evening!
I have read that egg shells can take years to break down in the soil to become available for plants to take up. Baking them dry and using a blender creates a huge surface area, which speeds decomposition. I use a little white vinegar to turn the crushed and cooked eggshells into calcium acetate, which is water soluble. My romas are getting some BER currently, and I think you let me know what is causing it. Temp and humidity race to see who gets to 100 first where I am at. I may cut back the growing ends and see if that cuts down on losses to BER.
Last resort you can use calcium nitrate 😥
Many thanks again to you your Dad! There are so many young growers out there who go with too much hype, and lack the many years of experience.
On the subject of tomato growing. I have heard (not BER related) that the first nation's people used to bury fish for their tomato growth. Has this been proven ?
I wouldn't know,we hear stories about that but who knows, not me😊
I found Monday that one of my plants (I have to grow in containers) had blossom end rot. I believe I must have missed watering it one day. The soil was not moist and the roots, I could feel were growing well but were very close to the top of the soil. It had grown well and quickly. I thought it was still very moist because of all the rain we’d had in May here in the mid-Atlantic area. Also, because I was limited with funds and opportunity to get supplies, the plant needed more soil added to its 20 gallon container. I figured if it doesn’t have enough soil, it can’t hold sufficient water therefore, the water perhaps could not carry the nutrients to the tomato. Imagine how I feel, my first time growing this much talked about Black Krim tomato, which I have also never tasted, and it looks like I might blow it. Thank you, I will be watching your soil prep videos. I’m 69 years old and don’t know how long I have to grow veggies but, I will keep going as long as I can, this is my 5th year working at it.
I grow great Tomatoes in 5 gallon buckets. You don't need 20 or even 10 gallon container for great Tomatoes. A 5 or 7 gallon is plenty. Just make sure to use good potting soil. Top soil or soil out of the yard won't do. It has to be potting soil for reliable results. I don't know your growing season but if you're far enough south like I am you can still grow a Fall Tomato crop. My Fall Tomatoes in containers grow better then the Spring ones do.
What fertilizer are you using in your buckets.?
@@GardeningHomesteadingWoodwork I started with adding leaf compost, bone meal, blood meal, just a half cup maybe of dolomite lime. I had to wait a week or so to add Alaska fish emulsion.
@@GardeningHomesteadingWoodwork I'm not sure if you're asking me or the person with the original comment I responded to? As for me I use potting soil from Miracle Grow. I also add additional Miracle Grow every 10 days or so. I put it in after sunset so the plant has all night to absorb it before watering the next morning. I change soil each year. I refurbish the old soil for continued use also.
@@lynnglidewell7367 with indeterminate tomatoes? In the past I used 15 gal. for them. I’m growing some TOMATO FEST DWARFS this year in 7 and 10 gallons, they seem a little small to me.
Gardens looking great!
Thank you!
Another great video! Thanks for sharing.
We would love a video about eggplant as there are not many on RUclips. Love always.
Great suggestion, thanks! Maybe we'll do that sometime this growing season.
Amen!! Thanks so much for sharing!!
Instead of grinding eggshells and putting them in soil, I grind the shells and then soak them in vinegar to dissolve the calcium into calcium acetate which is plant available. Then I dilute a tablespoon or 2 into a gallon of water. Using this every couple weeks have helped keep BER away, plus it’s using a waste product. The leftover shells get added to my worm bin more for grit but also to pre compost the added shells.
Would you tell me the ratio between eggshells and vinegar, and how long do you need to let them soak? Thank you!
10:1 vinegar : egg shell
I start with one table spoons per 2 gallons of water for foliar spray and 2table spoon per gallon of water for soil watering
@MsLookinup as for how to dilute and ratio of vinegar to crushed eggshell it’s roughly 10:1 @@bryannakvinda8411 is exactly right! As for how long to soak the eggshells in vinegar it depends on how finely crushed they are, but generally 3-4 days or until no more bubbles are causing the eggshells to rise. A word of warning, the finer you grind them, the more foam will be made initially which can cause a bit of mess so use an extra large container unless the shells are a bit coarse.
Vinegar.. landscape workers use it too kill weeds so be very careful
I did this
i've seen on your videos how you don't till. How do you deal with those big white grubs that i believe are also called cutworms? Also, do you have a video on your process for saving tomato seeds? if not, can you make one this fall? Thank you!
Thankfully I don't have to deal with grubs,it may be because of beneficial nematodes. We haven't made a video on saving tomato seeds yet so thanks for the suggestion! Have a blessed day!
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very good to know. thankyou
Glad it was helpful!
If you had to choose gypsum or lime, which better and faster?
I'd use the water soluble gypsum, have a blessed day!
I use eggshells when I have that problem, I just save up my eggshells good big bowl full get out the blender and turn them to dust works fantastic.😎🙏🇺🇸👍
How do you add the powder to your plant. I have powder waiting to use, but I want to do it properly . Thanks in advance.
Just work it in the top 1" or 2 of soil around your plant and then water.
Thank you great information.
Your very welcome, God blessings to you!
What memo did I miss what does prevent blossom end rot
Very informative
Glad it was helpful!
Thank dear for good information 👍
You're welcome! Glad you found it useful!
Thanks guys
Enjoyed. God bless
Thanks much!
Watering outside garden - How often in a week, and how long do you run your dripline on your tomatoes and peppers?
There's no way of me knowing how to water your garden, it ALL depends on temperature, rainfall,wind, soil composition etc. Impossible for anyone to tell you correctly what to do. May God bless you!
@@GardeningHomesteadingWoodwork How will I know when I've watered long enough, using a dripline, soaker hose, or something similar, so the garden is watered sufficiently? I'm new to doing this and might have worded that incorrectly. Do you have a video, or have any words of wisdom you could share so I can figure out how to know when I've watered the garden long enough? At least then I can know to check it every 15 minutes or 30 minutes (don't know how long to let the water on), and know a way to know that I watered enough? Thank you, and may God bless you too :)
I usually use old milk that expires and it correct the problem
You are probably using the LABS.. lacto bacillus
Can you please let us know what you use to keep the pests off the eggplants . Thanks
That's a tuff one! My biggest problem with eggplants are flea beetles and aphids,for flea beetles the best solution is beneficial nematodes, you can also spray surround on the plants,surround is a natural ultra fine white clay that is water soluble, the negative with it is it makes the plant white which looks really ugly in my opinion 😂 trust this is helpful info for you,have a blessed evening!
An easy cheap and effective solution for me was light fine mesh netting....
Or oyster shell meal
The Spring weather just went way out of the normal range here in North Alabama in 2024. I had 98, 99, 100, degree temperatures with high humidity by first week of June, and then continued elevated 90+ degree temperatures for the entire month. You aren't going to fix that no matter what you do. I've pulled a dozen Tomatoes or more from the plants already with blossom end rot. Small ones not as big as a golf ball still green that are coming down with it. Fortunately here we get a second growing season for Fall to try again. I've pulled enough suckers from my plants I'm rerooting in water to plant at end of July for The Fall. Conditions just don't favor good Tomato crop this Summer, the rains have dried up as well. So I'll pick them Green and make Green Tomato Relish with mine this Summer. You can even cut the end rot off them and use the rest in a relish as well. So it won't be a total loss but I will miss my garden fresh ripe Tomatoes which I normally would be starting to have already in any typical year.
So, you have great info about “preventing” blossoms end rot, but what do you use if you already have blossoms end rot.
Are you looking for an organic solution or a synthetic one?
I have it now, so I need an emergency solution, whatever it takes
Try using calcium nitrate ,it's synthetic but it's the quickest way to deal with it , if you want organic you can try water soluble gypsum but it's much slower acting,you could drench any plants that don't have it yet and see if it prevents it.
Thank you so much
Your very welcome and hope you have a wonderful growing season!
So that gypsum does that help right away. I’m new and starting to see rot. I’m using pots
The water soluble gypsum is fairly quick acting but if you want something quicker you'd have to go the synthetic route wich is calcium nitrate, May God bless you!
Thank you so much@@GardeningHomesteadingWoodwork
@@GardeningHomesteadingWoodwork Could you recommend a brand to use of this Calcium Nitrate? I too have BER on my tomatoes that I'm growing on my patio. I am new to growing a garden and would like to get some good tomatoes and don't want to put the wrong stuff on them. All your advice is so appreciated!!! Thank you and God Bless you for making video's like this for all of us who need help!
Any brand is fine as it may all come from just a couple manufacturers,remember it's synthetic and I don't recommend using any synthetic amendments or fertilizer because it's detrimental to your soil biology. Blessings to you!
Thank you as always!
You're welcome!
Should I have the soil loose around my plants?
If your soil has active and thriving biology it will be loose.
My tomatoes 🍅 look good about %30 red with no rot spots when I pick mine, however some after a few days 100% red start to show a dime size rot. Do you have an idea why? All the tomatoes on the plant before picking looks great.
Also, I use dr soil lime to add calcium and magnesium to soil.
Also, the rot is on the sides not bottom end.
I'm sorry that you're having problems with your tomatoes, unfortunately I'm not much help when it comes to diseases as I don't have any,if your soil has a thriving biology which means that you can't be using any synthetic fertilizer or fungicides you usually don't have any issues! Good Compost is one of the best things you can incorporate into or on top of your soil,and by the way try to do no-till as well. May God bless you!
@@GardeningHomesteadingWoodwork oh, I use Miracle-Gro All Purpose Plant Food.
How do you stop the animals from eating your crops when growing in ground?
What kind of animals are we talking about?😊
Do you have a video of how you keep weeds out of the garden?
Always cover your soil. It keeps your weeds out and the soil stays moist longer.
Thanks!
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Do you have to get rid of the entire plant if the plant gets BER? What about watermelons? You talked about prevention. What do you do if you get BER?
Thank you for your expertise.
Oh no you don't have to discard the plant,it's not a disease it's just a lack of calcium getting to the fruit,lot of times it'll clear up by itself! Not sure what you're asking about watermelons. I talked in one of the videos about what to do about ber. Blessings to you!
Bone meal at transplant.
Monitor VPD in greenhouses. Outside temps and humidity affect plant transpiration and nutrient translocation.
Yes that is correct,maybe you missed me stating that or maybe I stated it in a different video can't remember which.
@@GardeningHomesteadingWoodwork You did say these things, I think they were just noting it to themselves to remember? :)
What about calcium acetate?
New subscriber here. So tired of wasting time on myths. Need proven methods.
Also adding scripture at the end hooked me. 😅
Two things. Low soil calcium is quite rare, and only a soil test will tell you that, so save your money. BER is a calcium transportation problem. It typically happens when there are wide swings in soil moisture. You can have all the calcium in the world in your soil, but without consistent watering, you will have BER. This is well understood by scientists and those who produce tomatoes as market gardeners. There are a few other things that can contribute to BER, but the first thing to concentrate on is water. Avoid those wide swings in soil moisture.
That background is so beautiful it looks like AI
Thanks! 😊
Magnesium lock up is a common problem
High heat and humidity prevention is not a option here in Louisiana!!
A lot of homesteaders are using bone meal. So I'm trying that this year. We shall see how that goes.
Bone meal doesn't have as much calcium in it as gypsum, but with bonemeal you get phosphorus and nitrogen and nitrogen is definitely not what competition growers need so that is why I stay away from bonemeal. Fishbone meal is better that other types of bonemeal. Have a blessed day!
What about azomite
This isn't a blossom end rot question, but a blight question. Can you give your opinion on using aspirin to help prevent blight? I see a lot of channels recommending either putting aspirin in the planting hole or mixing a slurry & spraying their plants. So far I am really hesitant to do this. I can usually beat early blight by giving enough space between the tomatoes, pruning to a single stem, mulching, trimming the bottom leaves, etc... however, our climate is so humid, I always get late blight. I have seen people using aspirin, spraying with baking soda & Neem oil or other sprays. I have tried Neem oil, however I still get late blight. Do you have any suggestions that you can share?
Asprin is backed by science. Also use peroxide weekly
Yes the salicylic acid in aspirin is what helps prevent late blight but I would prefer not to treat it in that way,my approach would be to increase your biology in your soil so that the plant would have a strong immune system to resist any of the diseases that might try to take it down, with a healthy soil your brix would be higher as well which is an overall indicator of plant health, you can buy a refractometer which will give you the brix number, hope this helps and may God bless you!
Thats something i find on the first several fruits then it stops happening.
how much borax in a gallon of water?
It depends on how much is in your soil,but you can try 1/8tsp but don't apply more than once a month ,better to have soil test to see what your levels are,but who am I to say you should test your soil because I never have 🤣 I go by looking at the plant and letting it show me what it needs.
@@GardeningHomesteadingWoodwork Thankyou so much for this, I shall try it.
Amino acids 😊
Pretty disheartening that you say once you get it you can’t fix it.
You can't fix the fruit that has it but you can fix the plant so that the rest of the seasons fruit isn't effected.
@@GardeningHomesteadingWoodwork how can you fix the plant after affected fruit has been removed? I plan on amending gypsum in the fall.
Organically you can drench with water soluble gypsum and synthetically you can use calcium nitrate as a drench.
@@GardeningHomesteadingWoodwork thank you. I grow organically and have been top dressing with the gypsum.
@@GardeningHomesteadingWoodwork that’s good news! I misunderstood and I thank you for clarifying.
well that doesn't help much for people who are dealing with BER. You are basically saying throw out your plants? Frustrating
No that's not what I'm saying at all,just throw out the fruit that's effected not the plant,you can still get plenty of good fruit off of it as long as you can control the ber.
Check your soil. I amended my soil in the spring and no more blossom end rot.
Good information guys!
Great to hear people opine! Take care!