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Crap...just don't grow certain ones. I've grown romas for years and no blossom end rot because I add compost and eggshells...waste

Good info! Thanks!!

I think I saw this guy on a scarecrow pole, sipping his tea :P

Glad to have run across your video about BER, which is a very complex disorder. I don't have room in my small backyard for an in-ground garden, so I only grow in fabric grow bags. I also have some GreenStalk vertical planters to save space. I only grew determinate tomatoes last year, and one variety was Roma tomatoes. I had the worst experience with BER on my Romas. This year, I am only growing indeterminate tomatoes and still have a couple of plants that produce tomatoes with BER. I learned something about nitrogen from you. Have not heard any other YT gardeners but you talk about that. In one garden group I am in, there is a gentleman who is a retired Ph D, Agricultural Research Scientist - Molecular Geneticist & Agronomist and has worked for seed companies many years. He is a home gardener too. We discussed BER. I told him I make my own potting mix from peat moss and include amendments, which one was dolomite lime to cut the acidity of the peat moss. He told me that was a problem that might contribute to BER. He said dolomite lime contains magnesium, which is a metal similar to calcium but has a stronger charge than calcium. It can replace the calcium uptake and cause BER. He suggested using water soluble calcium nitrate. I have been doing that and my tomatoes and bell peppers are doing much better. My weekly water soluble fertilizer is Medina HastaGro plant food, 6-12-6 NPK. I checked the label and the nitrogen is nitrate nitrogen and urea nitrogen. Good to know my fertilizer nitrogen source is ok. Happy gardening! 🙂

How can one know why a plant just dried up even though I Watered and fed it?

Thank you dear for good information 👍

Excellent information! I live in a very hot area near Sacramento, CA and have battled this disorder for years. I've found a decent results with 6" of alfalfa/straw hay mulch around each plant. Also to prevent another disorder, blossom drop, I get them in the ground no later than April 15 so that the fruit can set. Even if it's too hot for the blossoms to produce fruit, at least the earlier ones do well. Then, in late summer/early Fall, I get another round of fruit production because it's cooler. One of these days, I definetly want to get a 30-40% shade cloth.

I do not think this is a valid experiment if it stopped here. You observed either no at this stage or less tomatoes comparatively. But I've seen a high nitrogen fertilizer vs a more balanced fertilizer result in a very unequal amount of tomatoes despite the earlier observed fruiting stage for the balanced. That observation was such a shocker that I can't forget how the early appearances lied. Flowers and thus tomatoes came on earlier, but overall the results weighed less for those plants at the end of the year. Old school prepper urine vs mg tests is worth a watch and is what I'm referencing. This aspirin test also needs to make it a year imo and the tomato's weight needs to be kept.

Deficiency in the soil I think u mean

I use yellow stickies, and they fill up, but soon they’re back again. I’m gonna try the neem, with peppermint and dawn. Thanks 😊

Why did you do this in the first place? Snipping off lower limbs and leaves just to make room for more dirt so it rises up the stem makes sense with tomatoes, but what benefit is there for peppers? It doesn't grow more roots in that dirt, as far as I can figure it doesn't protect the stem from anything (to the contrary, I'd say), it does cost you some leaves and it's an additional barrier to get water to the roots. So what's the purpose? Can you tell us why you did it?

I'm doing a few experiments this year with mulch in containers, mulching some, others not. I'm in a very different climate, northern MN, and while we do get hot summer days, I've heard that mulching peppers specifically might not be the best idea because they like the heat and want warm soil. I mulched every container last year and the peppers did okay... time will tell.

Topping or pinching Capsicum is one of those myths that was started from incomplete rumor and just won't die. I would mulch but every time I try it my birds rake it out of the pots the very next day.

Bad advise. Keep to talking to your herb.

Man, you deserve a lot more views than you have here. Your advice is spot on IMO for all the research I have done. Great job and I am subscribing even though I'm from Minnesota.

Cool, informative video. I'm going to go get some Azamite. I love your intros as well!

I sprayed excessive nutrients on my plants for about 3 days straight. Now the plants are more yellow and look unhappy. How do I fix this, please? Thank you

I forgot to mention to be sure to plant them at least 2 feet apart.

Agro Thrive is good

Good evening what mulch would you recommend for raised beds? I have beds that are 3 ft off the back.

Do you still use the potassium nitrate?

Thank you for the information.

How long do u keep lids on

Interesting!

i put bone meal on the top of the soil....works pretty good....

tested here: mosquito bits sprinked sparingly on the soil, and cinnamon sprinkled on top of soil. both work great as preventative and from treatment. The mosquito bits really go a long way, and cinnamon in bulk is not expensive just takes a dusting over the soil

When using neem be careful because it is systemic and will build up in the plant....also it does smell like a burning rubber 😂

You can always sterilize your fertilizer by baking it an an oven or otherwise heating device. I would suggest to do it outdoors. It stinks to high heaven. When finished you have to inoculate with the good guys though because there is nothing left alive when you’re done!

You didn't mention what by accident I've discovered to be the best preventive measure against fungus gnats--- moving air (i.e. fans, oscillating or otherwise). I have tried twice before to grow tobacco plants from seeds, and both times the plants where completely destroyed by the gnat before I understood what they even were. So I dumped the soil I was using, and used a peat/vermiculite/perlite mixture instead, which I thought was going to be the cure. It has helped, but honestly, I think what is keeping the gnats and all flies away is my re-attempting in a room with a strong overhead household fan, and a small personal fan I have directed over the plants. No gnat, especially fungus gnats which are notoriously bad flyers, is able to penetrate that wall of moving air to even make it to the plants, much less land on them without being blown away by the wind. Of course, if you have a large operation this is not practical but if you have a smaller group of houseplants, even a regular overhead house fan is effective, on the highest setting.

What my pepper seed cannot germinate?

*DO NOT use dish-soap on your plants, it'll 90% KILL your plants!!!* *1-TBL spoon dish soap with 3-TBL vinegar and 24-Ounce water in a container without cover OR cover WITH holes, THIS WORKS REALLY WELL!!!*

Thanks for sharing 👍. New subscriber.

Yes they do hurt plants they munch on roots. Yes yellow sticky traps work ghey catch the hell out of them. BTI works perfectly and it only takes a little bit per gallon so ita not that expensive it is $10 for a bunch at Walmart. Youre very one sided and opinionated for someone who is supposed to be experimenting you didnt experiment much or you would know what i am saying is correct. Nice try

That purple spray bottle, do you know where you bought it? I have one that looks similar and it's outlasted all the other spray bottles I've had.

Fungus killed ~75 of my sprouts last season. I was quite upset. Shortly after, 20+ young pepper plants were taken out by slugs and snails. I'm also in southern Ca. Thanks for sharing these tips.

Won't boiling water boil and kill the plants !?

Do you have any fail safe methods for thrips? Preventative and cures x

I’ve tried dog poop in their holes and it does nothing. It’s so discouraging

They won't be an issue if the environment is well ventilated and you do not overwater.

Quick question! Would it be good to apply 0-4-2 to the end oh last 5-6 weeks of flowering of cannabis plants? My friend wants to know 😂

I’m enjoying your videos. Easy soft spoken and to the point. A+ my friend

Instead of sand use garden pumice screened to 1/8. I put a layer of D. earth and then a layer of the pumice and bottom water, no gnats.

I have had good success with the purchased yellow sticky traps. Making my own with vaseline was all but useless. I've also had success with the boiling water method. I'm sure it kills good microbes also, but mostly I've used it for starting plants that would later be transplanted outside, so I'm not too concerned with having a lot of microbes in the seed-starting soil. Neem oil is probably the best.

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Dte definitely needs to be dry to work if you get it wet you might as well bake a cake lol

Mustard seed meal mixed into the soil is a great way to protect ur plants soil build a soil uses this method and it's been shown to work

Sticky Traps.

Your roots!?

Part 2 is up. See the link at the end or on my profile.