Your discussions about the effects of heat (both in this video and others) answer a ton of questions for me. Living in Zone 10A, so much that's working in our gardens in late spring virtually stops and goes into reverse as the summer temperatures soar in baking, dry summer heat which is often above 95F for days at a time. The flowers of healthy cucumber plants disappear seemingly overnight and the plants get leathery and brittle; tomatoes stop growing and any fruit that sets gets smaller and more scarce (those that don't get sun scald); and seeds easily germinated in the ground in other growing seasons can't get started. This all makes sense. Thanks.
1. too hot 2. too much inorganic fertilizer (too much nitrogren => leaves, not fruit) 3. lack of water, cant uptake calcium 4. immature plant 5. calcium deficiency
Mary Fesliyan all fertilizers are inorganic. He is using he term inorganic incorrectly when he means to say non-organic. Inorganic= non carbon based. All fertilizers (N-K-Mg-Ca) are inorganic.
@@Frankie_902 eggshells! Make sure you rinse them out good, let them dry then crush em up and put about a 1/2-1 cup around the plant and kinda mix it into the top soil
Your my go to guy. ! Gardening was so much harder years ago when I had to look it up in a book. My garden is thriving like never before and I owe it all to you☺️. Thank you
Being from Indiana I love your videos. You experience the same seasons I do so I can relate so much better to what your saying than the many California or Southern gardeners. Not that they don't have good advice, but you have very relevant seasonal advice.
Great video! A solution and tip is to use a shade cloth over your plants when it gets 90ﾟor above. In Colorado we are 5000' ft above sea level and our sun is extremely intense even at 85ﾟ. The solution is when your plants starts showing stress during high heat just cover it with a shade cloth. It works for me every time.
We were in Las Vegas and it was 105. It was hot but tolerable. Like walking in an oven. We came back to Michigan and it was 91 and it was horrible. We were sweating so much because of the humidity. I'd take 105 Vegas over 90 degree Michigan any day. Thanks for the info. Love your vids. 🌱🌱🌱🌱
I've noticed the same thing! 90 in NH is unbearable due to the humidity... I'm dripping with sweat when working outside. I went on trips to Vegas and Riverside, CA. 105, very low humidity. I was comfortable the whole time. You might get a little wisp of sweat on your forehead.... but it evaporates immediately into the desert air.
Totally agree! In California foothills with dry heat that's hits 102 to 107 thru a lot of summer. I went to Houston and Florida when temps were in the high 80's with humidity, and it was intolerable! I'd take dry heat any day over those miserable experiences. Also, my plants flower GREAT in the high heat out here... the hotter the better! As a matter of fact, when it cools down to under 95 at night, yet remains above 95 during the day, those cooler nights slow my vegetables down a ton. Bring on the heat for a great harvest in my area🙂
I had the same thing happen after visiting my sister in Sacramento. When I left, at the beginning of May, it was 105 there. Later that month it got to 78 here in Ohio, and it was awful! It's the humidity! The air is heavier, and it takes more effort to breathe. I'd imagine the plants feel that as well.
I need a love button this video and comments below answered all my today questions! Thank you for braving the heat today to help me before I started doing more than offering shade to my gardens
Good to know, I did not hear Luke say "be patient, they will recover" but he did not compost the lot either so I was going to ask but you answered. Thank you
Just watched this. For a couple of years in a row, my peppers specifically have not produced much fruit. I didn't want to make that mistake this year. Thank you! This was very helpful. Fingers crossed for this year.
Spot on about the heat, I’m going to cut back my indeterminate tomatoes this weekend so I can get another harvest here in Las Vegas. My cucumbers are going crazy! Can’t wait for temps under 100
Thanks! I may not comment every time but I'm always enjoying the tip of the day from you. Many people are not like you and your family. Y'all are great role models. Before I found your channel and others, I thought that I was just some weird nerdy kid in the backyard playing in the garden lol. Now I realize there are many more Garden Gnomes out there... ;-)
Thank you for this video and all the details! I have Sedum Autumn Charm and they are not blooming. I looked up so much but nothing I watched or read talks about the FACTS you presented. Now I know that my Autumn Charm was stressed from the Texas heat and probably drought although I watered(I may need to add more organic material to my soil mixture)! We had a week of 108°F not to mention consistently over 95...so it explains it!!! Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Thanks for this vid! I was wondering about a few of my crops, because I know they get plenty of water and enough (organic) fertilizer, yet they stopped flowering despite being very prolific earlier in the season. Now I know it's this weeks-long insane heat we've been having, not a mistake on my part. :)
My tomatoes don't produce fruit because I have no bees. They have all been killed off by Roundup in my area. Therefore, If I want any fruit, I have to do the pollinating. I find this works best by vibrating the stems with an electric toothbrush very early in the morning when the pollen ripens. So you might want to include this reason the next time you talk about tomatoes. More and more gardeners in the USA do not have bee pollinators anymore.
I use my water from my pet snapping turtle as the only fertilizer. He eats nothing but salmon worms grubs bugs. His dirty water makes plants grow like nothing I've ever seen.
Always enjoy your information and videos this year I have really big healthy tomatoes but they fruit doesn't turn red .can you please help from Toronto ON
We had that spell a couple of weeks ago that seems to have stunted the garden. I was afraid something had gone awry with the soil. Thank you for sharing this.
I have my alisa craigs that I got from you started in their little pots, I am so impressed with them, they all sprouted and looking healthy so far! I plan on amending my raised beds with some blood, fish and bone to make sure they get their nutrients before putting them in next month. I am so happy I bought my seeds from you, I look forward to a wonderful garden!
I’m currently growing contender bush beans in Florida (zone 10) temps lately have been mid to high 90’s with almost 100% humidity, however I keep them under constant shade cloth. Soil temp is around 80 degrees. I just had to share this, first time growing this variety. I wanted to see how it would perform under intense heat, and it’s earning its name! There are tons of beans on these plants. I also added worm castings to soil and mycorrhizal fungi.
Hi Luke, I had a lot of flowers on my tomato plants especially cherry tomatoes (about 100 at least) this summer but 99% of the flowers dropped. It was a sad summer for me as I used to get hundreds of cherry tomatoes. I think it was the heat we had here in Toronto. The weather is cooling down a bit so I am starting to get some fruits. I recently purchased my first bag of trifecta+ which I am very excited about because I heard it's a super food for the plants. Our growing season is ending soon, in about a month so I don't want to waste your trifecta+ on this year's plants, unless you think I should use it. Thank you for all your videos. They are all very educational and especially fun to watch with Sindy and Geneva in them.
When he said 80-85 degrees I went through shock it hits 100-115 or even 120 or 130!! Sometimes I will get some potting soil from a market and I will sprinkle 1/4 - 1 inch worth of potting soil over the base of the plant then water about and hour to two hours later and it normally really helps my plants it produces tons more fruit especially on the tomatoes during the hot season.
You look like Clark Kent . Lol in his free time he gardens and frees the world of crime! Thank you for all the information you give. My friends think I'm a green thumb but I learned everything from TH-camrs like you. You are responsible for many people increasing their yields. In a way you are feeding us knowledge, that feeds us. :P
Great video. Thanks. I know this has been addressed in various videos, BUT it would be great to get a video that focuses solely on watering frequently and feeding frequently. At least that would be a great help for me personally. Thanks as always
Ugh...I kept giving nutrients to my tomatoes because of blossom drop! Totally panicked. Now I know it’s the temps! it’s been consistently in the upper 90s for a couple weeks and isn’t ending anytime soon. Never seen this in my 6b zone before! My blossoms keep falling off my tomato that has blossoms...the rest are younger and just don’t have the blossoms growing. This crazy heat needs to end. Thanks Luke for all this critical info!
Cool video, thank you! I was wondering why my peppers weren't flowering earlier this season. But it was absurdly hot for 3 weeks, and it sounds like that may have been the reason. They're flowering nicely now that we're back to the high 80s
Thank you so much for covering this issue. I am currently experiencing this with my tomato plants and trying to remedy the heat with shade cloth, provide calcium and cutting back on watering to see if anything changes. I tested my soil too and it had too much alkaline so about to remedy that with organic soil acidifier so hopefully I see results soon
my pole beans this year were growing well and were about 8 feet tall with lots of growth but not a blossom one. i got some bone meal and sprinkled it around the soil and worked it in a bit. a couple weeks later i gave them another dose and now my beans are producing like crazy. bone meal contains phosphorus and calcium and it is the lack of phosphorus that keeps plants from flowering. the calcium helps to prevent blossom end rot as well as keep the plants healthy.
I was happy to see this video. All my plants are doing amazing except my peppers - well the plants are probably the biggest I've ever had but no fruit and very few flowers. I'm not sure why although it could be one of the reasons you mentioned. We had really hot dry two months June and July and I was not sure they would even make it. Once we started getting rain they took off but still very little blossoms. I'm leaning towards too much nitrogen from the compost I put down when I planted or the heat we've had. I picked my first two banana peppers today and hoping more blossoms will start to produce before the weather gets too cold.
@@amberhaddad6338 yes. Grind the shells after they dry. Then add one whole egg shell to the ground around each plant. Work into the top of the soil , then water in. Good luck.
Wow Thankyou for this video not only did I learn about plants but the fact that we as humans behave just like them! All the problems you mentioned apply to us metaphorically too! Not only does this knowledge help my gardening but it brings me closer to my creator and confirms for me that me and these plants have one God! #Islam #onegod
Very helpfulness! I'm a novice gardener (i.e. 3 months) in my new garden and have had a bit of trouble the last month or so. I am certain the heat (zone 10) 90-100 degrees in August was the primary issue. I'm just wondering if for next year, even with shading, I should just avoid summer growing. My plants were just scorched or stunted. Also, if a tomato plant just freezes in time and doesn't appear to be bouncing back like the other, should I pull it out? What I mean is that it has stopped doing anything and had 2 green fruits that have been hanging there, unchanged for 6 weeks.
Our bell peppers must not like the 90’s no matter how much water they get.. luckily we are going into the upper 70’s for the next week or more. Thank heavens!! Good to know about the organic fertilizer. I always use organic. My peppers always seem to take a very long time to produce fruit. Last year I made the mistake of pulling all of my pepper plants because there was so little flowering by late august and we had had a cool season. A neighbor had the same issue only he let his grow until frost. Things heated up in September!! He ended up with a good crop. This year Im going to be patient. LOL! Thank you for the information Luke! 🐝🐝🐝
I noticed that my spicy peppers handled the heat and fruited much better than the sweet peppers. You could also try okra, which loves heat to get an additional harvest.
Just keep your sweet peppers watered really well. They do best between 70 and 80 degrees. And they grow like crazy. As in size when the temperature cools down in September. Important! Always keep one bell pepper on your plant. Or it will quit flowering it won't do anything in September. No fruit... the plant decides to die. To get really serious. Always use. A small amount of blossom booster fertilizer water soluble every other day.
This was so helpful, since I moved from Florida to Colorado I have not been able to grow food. The plants grow but don't produce but we do hit those above 80° F summer months and it is way dryer here than FL . My tomatoes just sit there helping the carbon dioxide and oxygen system. I keep upgrading my composting methods and all but that has not helped, this information will be useful to fix my issues
I'm live in CO also and we get well above 80 in the summer...even now during spring we are almost hitting 80. With the unusually late frost and this hot spring, my plants are having a tough start for sure. Did your luck turn around with your plants last season?
Great video. My tomatoes are not flowing and i planted in late May. I am stumped but after your video I am going to try a free things. thank you....new sub❤🌱🍅
My crimson sweet watermelons are growing at a great speed and look very healthy but no flowers yet. Highs have been around 75 degrees here in beautiful San Diego. My cherry tomatoes are flowering, my sweet peas are flowering, and most of my strawberries are flowering. My plum tree is harvesting.
In response to reason #1: I definitely relate to this! I live in Central/South Florida, and down here we don't even *plant* tomatoes until August or September because of the heat.
lol I learned this same lesson the hard way after planting a few tomato plants in feb in south FL only to have the heat destroy them come april :) now i wait until november down here to plant tomatoes as its still 80F today in late november
Hi Luke, I’m in 7b and now it’s cooling down . Now my issue is I have a lots of flowers and fruit, but they’re not ripening. One or two cherry tomatoes a day and I pick them ( they’re delicious) but with four bushes, I don’t even have enough to share.
In some areas the plants must just adjust to higher temps? Here in Georgia our temps go from high of 40s in March to 50s-80s in April then 100s through the end of August. But people are growing tomatoes, melons and other fruits prolifically. Thank you for the good tips!
Erica BamaMommy ants are little junkies, they use chemicals from aphids to get high..seriously. They pull the wings off aphids, carry them to a food source so they can eat and rub up against them to get high. Check for tiny dots on your plants and wash them off with running water and make ant traps with borax and sugar. It works 👍🏼
Nikki Cooper You are the best! This tip is saving my garden! I went away for a week and asked my neighbor that is also a gardener to take care of my babies for me. I came back to an absolute horror. I lost 11 squash plants (so far) my cukes are looking awful, I'm not sure how my sweet potatoes look so awful, it was just an awful mess all around. I've tried to salvage what I could to end the growing season, this has helped quite a bit. Many thanks!
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1. too hot 1:21
2. too much inorganic fertilizer 3:35
3. lack of water 6:05
4. immature plants/trees 7:25
5. calcium deficiency 8:19
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God bless you, jon smith. That just saved me soooo much time!
Thank u
Awesome video! It explained why my tomatoes are not flowering.....TOO HOT in Texas....no tomatoes this Summer 2023....
Your discussions about the effects of heat (both in this video and others) answer a ton of questions for me. Living in Zone 10A, so much that's working in our gardens in late spring virtually stops and goes into reverse as the summer temperatures soar in baking, dry summer heat which is often above 95F for days at a time. The flowers of healthy cucumber plants disappear seemingly overnight and the plants get leathery and brittle; tomatoes stop growing and any fruit that sets gets smaller and more scarce (those that don't get sun scald); and seeds easily germinated in the ground in other growing seasons can't get started. This all makes sense. Thanks.
“It’s a patience issue.” - Thanks, I think that’s the main thing I needed to hear.
I’m in big trouble if patience is the problem 😆
1. too hot
2. too much inorganic fertilizer (too much nitrogren => leaves, not fruit)
3. lack of water, cant uptake calcium
4. immature plant
5. calcium deficiency
Mary Fesliyan all fertilizers are inorganic. He is using he term inorganic incorrectly when he means to say non-organic. Inorganic= non carbon based. All fertilizers (N-K-Mg-Ca) are inorganic.
Thanks so much for summarising 😍
Thank you for the outline very useful.
How can I add calcium to my soil/plants?
@@Frankie_902 eggshells! Make sure you rinse them out good, let them dry then crush em up and put about a 1/2-1 cup around the plant and kinda mix it into the top soil
Your my go to guy. ! Gardening was so much harder years ago when I had to look it up in a book. My garden is thriving like never before and I owe it all to you☺️. Thank you
Being from Indiana I love your videos. You experience the same seasons I do so I can relate so much better to what your saying than the many California or Southern gardeners. Not that they don't have good advice, but you have very relevant seasonal advice.
You have a nice way of explaining things...never thought of roots being like the digestive system but it makes sense...
Great video! A solution and tip is to use a shade cloth over your plants when it gets 90ﾟor above. In Colorado we are 5000' ft above sea level and our sun is extremely intense even at 85ﾟ. The solution is when your plants starts showing stress during high heat just cover it with a shade cloth. It works for me every time.
Yeah I'm in Los Angeles and our sun is crazy strong, even at 83-86 my plants are looking stressed.
We were in Las Vegas and it was 105. It was hot but tolerable. Like walking in an oven. We came back to Michigan and it was 91 and it was horrible. We were sweating so much because of the humidity. I'd take 105 Vegas over 90 degree Michigan any day.
Thanks for the info. Love your vids. 🌱🌱🌱🌱
I've noticed the same thing! 90 in NH is unbearable due to the humidity... I'm dripping with sweat when working outside. I went on trips to Vegas and Riverside, CA. 105, very low humidity. I was comfortable the whole time. You might get a little wisp of sweat on your forehead.... but it evaporates immediately into the desert air.
That’s why in Arizona we say “it’s a dry heat!” It makes a huge difference. It’s actually tolerable.
Totally agree! In California foothills with dry heat that's hits 102 to 107 thru a lot of summer. I went to Houston and Florida when temps were in the high 80's with humidity, and it was intolerable! I'd take dry heat any day over those miserable experiences. Also, my plants flower GREAT in the high heat out here... the hotter the better! As a matter of fact, when it cools down to under 95 at night, yet remains above 95 during the day, those cooler nights slow my vegetables down a ton. Bring on the heat for a great harvest in my area🙂
I had the same thing happen after visiting my sister in Sacramento. When I left, at the beginning of May, it was 105 there. Later that month it got to 78 here in Ohio, and it was awful! It's the humidity! The air is heavier, and it takes more effort to breathe. I'd imagine the plants feel that as well.
I'm near Vegas. I'll take the dry heat any day too. I spent some time in Florida around September/October and I had to change my shirt 3x a day.
Youre GREAT, your gardening advice is extreemly helpful
I need a love button this video and comments below answered all my today questions! Thank you for braving the heat today to help me before I started doing more than offering shade to my gardens
This was a very good and informative video. I found that my tomatoes started to flower again after the summer heatwave passed.
Good to know, I did not hear Luke say "be patient, they will recover" but he did not compost the lot either so I was going to ask but you answered. Thank you
Just watched this. For a couple of years in a row, my peppers specifically have not produced much fruit. I didn't want to make that mistake this year. Thank you! This was very helpful. Fingers crossed for this year.
TQ for sharing info n tips abt other veges/plants too.
Spot on about the heat, I’m going to cut back my indeterminate tomatoes this weekend so I can get another harvest here in Las Vegas. My cucumbers are going crazy! Can’t wait for temps under 100
Thanks! I may not comment every time but I'm always enjoying the tip of the day from you. Many people are not like you and your family. Y'all are great role models. Before I found your channel and others, I thought that I was just some weird nerdy kid in the backyard playing in the garden lol. Now I realize there are many more Garden Gnomes out there... ;-)
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12 best minutes of gardening help iv ever got on youtube. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Thank you for this video and all the details! I have Sedum Autumn Charm and they are not blooming. I looked up so much but nothing I watched or read talks about the FACTS you presented. Now I know that my Autumn Charm was stressed from the Texas heat and probably drought although I watered(I may need to add more organic material to my soil mixture)! We had a week of 108°F not to mention consistently over 95...so it explains it!!! Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Thanks for this vid! I was wondering about a few of my crops, because I know they get plenty of water and enough (organic) fertilizer, yet they stopped flowering despite being very prolific earlier in the season. Now I know it's this weeks-long insane heat we've been having, not a mistake on my part. :)
Thank you! I love the video. Very informative and thorough.
Great video, very informative! Thank you
My tomatoes don't produce fruit because I have no bees. They have all been killed off by Roundup in my area. Therefore, If I want any fruit, I have to do the pollinating. I find this works best by vibrating the stems with an electric toothbrush very early in the morning when the pollen ripens. So you might want to include this reason the next time you talk about tomatoes. More and more gardeners in the USA do not have bee pollinators anymore.
I use my water from my pet snapping turtle as the only fertilizer. He eats nothing but salmon worms grubs bugs. His dirty water makes plants grow like nothing I've ever seen.
I bet! Same idea as people who use a tilapia tank, etc. Watch your fingers :)
Oh that sounds like an awesome idea. You think dirty fish tank water may have the same effect?
@@falkinable absolutely rinse the filter in a bucket and dump I used to do that. Minerals in fish food alone are amazing for plants.
Always enjoy your information and videos this year I have really big healthy tomatoes but they fruit doesn't turn red .can you please help from Toronto ON
@@anastasiafrantzis7173 put a rotting tomato at the base of your plant it will make your other tomatoes ripe quick
We had that spell a couple of weeks ago that seems to have stunted the garden. I was afraid something had gone awry with the soil. Thank you for sharing this.
I have my alisa craigs that I got from you started in their little pots, I am so impressed with them, they all sprouted and looking healthy so far! I plan on amending my raised beds with some blood, fish and bone to make sure they get their nutrients before putting them in next month. I am so happy I bought my seeds from you, I look forward to a wonderful garden!
I love ur video u explain everything so well thank u for taking time out of ur day!!!! Greatly appreciated.
I’m currently growing contender bush beans in Florida (zone 10) temps lately have been mid to high 90’s with almost 100% humidity, however I keep them under constant shade cloth. Soil temp is around 80 degrees.
I just had to share this, first time growing this variety. I wanted to see how it would perform under intense heat, and it’s earning its name! There are tons of beans on these plants.
I also added worm castings to soil and mycorrhizal fungi.
I’m currently growing blue lake bush, yellow wax, and contender. Contender are the only ones putting out beans, the others are alive, but no beans.
@@PatienceLove wow that’s awesome, not just me then. Glad your having success
Hi Luke, I had a lot of flowers on my tomato plants especially cherry tomatoes (about 100 at least) this summer but 99% of the flowers dropped. It was a sad summer for me as I used to get hundreds of cherry tomatoes. I think it was the heat we had here in Toronto. The weather is cooling down a bit so I am starting to get some fruits.
I recently purchased my first bag of trifecta+ which I am very excited about because I heard it's a super food for the plants. Our growing season is ending soon, in about a month so I don't want to waste your trifecta+ on this year's plants, unless you think I should use it.
Thank you for all your videos. They are all very educational and especially fun to watch with Sindy and Geneva in them.
You answered ALL my questions, thanks so much!!! Very good!
YOU are the best! thanks for your knowledge!
Thanks again from Missouri. Always good information.
Good job explaining thank you
When he said 80-85 degrees I went through shock it hits 100-115 or even 120 or 130!! Sometimes I will get some potting soil from a market and I will sprinkle 1/4 - 1 inch worth of potting soil over the base of the plant then water about and hour to two hours later and it normally really helps my plants it produces tons more fruit especially on the tomatoes during the hot season.
Are you adding miracle grow like soil? Do you add it during the really high heat and do you put it on top of your mulch?
You look like Clark Kent . Lol in his free time he gardens and frees the world of crime! Thank you for all the information you give. My friends think I'm a green thumb but I learned everything from TH-camrs like you. You are responsible for many people increasing their yields. In a way you are feeding us knowledge, that feeds us. :P
Excellent info as usual. Thanks!
Yes you helped me. Thanks
I wish I had half your gardening knowledge Luke, thank you!!!
bees and wasps and butterflies! must self pollinate sometimes :D get that moisture in the ground with some healthy mulch.
Great video. Thanks. I know this has been addressed in various videos, BUT it would be great to get a video that focuses solely on watering frequently and feeding frequently. At least that would be a great help for me personally. Thanks as always
very informative
No wonder ! My plants had to deal with extreme triple digits , here in California . Good to know
Thank you!
Ugh...I kept giving nutrients to my tomatoes because of blossom drop! Totally panicked. Now I know it’s the temps! it’s been consistently in the upper 90s for a couple weeks and isn’t ending anytime soon. Never seen this in my 6b zone before! My blossoms keep falling off my tomato that has blossoms...the rest are younger and just don’t have the blossoms growing. This crazy heat needs to end. Thanks Luke for all this critical info!
Great advice.Thanks.
Cool video, thank you! I was wondering why my peppers weren't flowering earlier this season. But it was absurdly hot for 3 weeks, and it sounds like that may have been the reason. They're flowering nicely now that we're back to the high 80s
Thank you so much
awesome video Luke thanks for sharing that
Thanx,good to know pepper plants are dropping flowers&fruit.Heat advisory in Pa
6. PH level.
Great video as usual, thank you!
Thank you so much for covering this issue. I am currently experiencing this with my tomato plants and trying to remedy the heat with shade cloth, provide calcium and cutting back on watering to see if anything changes. I tested my soil too and it had too much alkaline so about to remedy that with organic soil acidifier so hopefully I see results soon
Great, as always.
Thank u..needed those answers Luke!!
Nice video. Learned alot.
Dude I give you a 10 star rating this video was perfect for me thank you very much.
Make a lot of sense. Thanks for posting.
my pole beans this year were growing well and were about 8 feet tall with lots of growth but not a blossom one.
i got some bone meal and sprinkled it around the soil and worked it in a bit. a couple weeks later i gave them another dose and now my beans are producing like crazy.
bone meal contains phosphorus and calcium and it is the lack of phosphorus that keeps plants from flowering. the calcium helps to prevent blossom end rot as well as keep the plants healthy.
Excellent post your vdo, thank you very much.
Great video on blossom end rot. One of my favorite recent videos.
I just subscribed! Thank you.
You're the best! Thank you
I was happy to see this video. All my plants are doing amazing except my peppers - well the plants are probably the biggest I've ever had but no fruit and very few flowers. I'm not sure why although it could be one of the reasons you mentioned. We had really hot dry two months June and July and I was not sure they would even make it. Once we started getting rain they took off but still very little blossoms. I'm leaning towards too much nitrogen from the compost I put down when I planted or the heat we've had. I picked my first two banana peppers today and hoping more blossoms will start to produce before the weather gets too cold.
The heat in Michigan has been awful lately yuck. Great video.
so what type of calcium would you apply Luke?
Yeah, what kind?
Hi. Thanks for the great info! How do I add calcium?
Grind egg shells and add that to each plant.
@@wchayes8646 so do I add the eggshells to the soil ??
@@amberhaddad6338 yes. Grind the shells after they dry. Then add one whole egg shell to the ground around each plant. Work into the top of the soil , then water in. Good luck.
so helpful! Thanks
Ty so much helpful
Here in Minnesota it’s been 92% humidity 🥵
Thank u so much for ur advice it gave me some kind of hope with my tomatoes.
you always have the best videos at the best time
Wow Thankyou for this video not only did I learn about plants but the fact that we as humans behave just like them! All the problems you mentioned apply to us metaphorically too! Not only does this knowledge help my gardening but it brings me closer to my creator and confirms for me that me and these plants have one God! #Islam #onegod
Thank you, Luke! Yet another great video.
Very helpfulness! I'm a novice gardener (i.e. 3 months) in my new garden and have had a bit of trouble the last month or so. I am certain the heat (zone 10) 90-100 degrees in August was the primary issue. I'm just wondering if for next year, even with shading, I should just avoid summer growing. My plants were just scorched or stunted. Also, if a tomato plant just freezes in time and doesn't appear to be bouncing back like the other, should I pull it out? What I mean is that it has stopped doing anything and had 2 green fruits that have been hanging there, unchanged for 6 weeks.
It has been really hot here in the Midwest this year--the 90s with a heat index of 100 or more. Yet, my tomatoes are flowering like crazy.
Our bell peppers must not like the 90’s no matter how much water they get.. luckily we are going into the upper 70’s for the next week or more. Thank heavens!! Good to know about the organic fertilizer. I always use organic. My peppers always seem to take a very long time to produce fruit. Last year I made the mistake of pulling all of my pepper plants because there was so little flowering by late august and we had had a cool season. A neighbor had the same issue only he let his grow until frost. Things heated up in September!! He ended up with a good crop. This year Im going to be patient. LOL! Thank you for the information Luke! 🐝🐝🐝
I noticed that my spicy peppers handled the heat and fruited much better than the sweet peppers. You could also try okra, which loves heat to get an additional harvest.
Just keep your sweet peppers watered really well. They do best between 70 and 80 degrees. And they grow like crazy. As in size when the temperature cools down in September. Important! Always keep one bell pepper on your plant. Or it will quit flowering it won't do anything in September. No fruit... the plant decides to die. To get really serious. Always use. A small amount of blossom booster fertilizer water soluble every other day.
@@user-wc2bp7xo4xhot peppers do okay in flowering and setting fruit in heat but they do ripen and grow faster in cooler weather..
Thank you
Thanks for the info! You answered a lot of questions.
Thanks for the great informations, great help😄thanks for sharing 😄
Thanks
This was so helpful, since I moved from Florida to Colorado I have not been able to grow food. The plants grow but don't produce but we do hit those above 80° F summer months and it is way dryer here than FL . My tomatoes just sit there helping the carbon dioxide and oxygen system. I keep upgrading my composting methods and all but that has not helped, this information will be useful to fix my issues
I'm live in CO also and we get well above 80 in the summer...even now during spring we are almost hitting 80. With the unusually late frost and this hot spring, my plants are having a tough start for sure. Did your luck turn around with your plants last season?
Great video. My tomatoes are not flowing and i planted in late May. I am stumped but after your video I am going to try a free things. thank you....new sub❤🌱🍅
Excellent vid
My crimson sweet watermelons are growing at a great speed and look very healthy but no flowers yet. Highs have been around 75 degrees here in beautiful San Diego. My cherry tomatoes are flowering, my sweet peas are flowering, and most of my strawberries are flowering. My plum tree is harvesting.
Simple truth😊✌️❤️ my Fl garden! I feel the weather comin around😊
Everything in my garden is flowering EXCEPT the Biquinho peppers, and the mini bell peppers. 😔
Thank you, you are so timely. Just what I needed to know right now 💕
Thxu so much for these
In response to reason #1: I definitely relate to this! I live in Central/South Florida, and down here we don't even *plant* tomatoes until August or September because of the heat.
Yes, I can relate. I bought some heat tolerant tomatoes at my local nursery and it didn't make a difference.
lol I learned this same lesson the hard way after planting a few tomato plants in feb in south FL only to have the heat destroy them come april :) now i wait until november down here to plant tomatoes as its still 80F today in late november
Nice pumpkins in the back ground. Was a very informative video.
Good Video,Good Info.
Hi Luke, I’m in 7b and now it’s cooling down . Now my issue is I have a lots of flowers and fruit, but they’re not ripening. One or two cherry tomatoes a day and I pick them ( they’re delicious) but with four bushes, I don’t even have enough to share.
Nice harvest!
Will shade cloths help?
yes it sure would.
For sure
Absolutely, it works for me every time.
In some areas the plants must just adjust to higher temps? Here in Georgia our temps go from high of 40s in March to 50s-80s in April then 100s through the end of August. But people are growing tomatoes, melons and other fruits prolifically. Thank you for the good tips!
By the thumbnail I half expected an update on the 100 year old tomato, or how ever old that thing was. LOL
Lol.
Mine are producing flowers but they are drying up and falling
My peppers were doing the same so I use Epsom salt and they recovered and start producing fruit.
My cukes are doing same thing... and have never had this problem b4... finding a ton of ants all over all my plants. Wondering if that the problem???
@@ericashelnut9052 DO you have aphids? they may be tending the aphids
Erica BamaMommy ants are little junkies, they use chemicals from aphids to get high..seriously. They pull the wings off aphids, carry them to a food source so they can eat and rub up against them to get high. Check for tiny dots on your plants and wash them off with running water and make ant traps with borax and sugar. It works 👍🏼
Nikki Cooper You are the best! This tip is saving my garden! I went away for a week and asked my neighbor that is also a gardener to take care of my babies for me. I came back to an absolute horror. I lost 11 squash plants (so far) my cukes are looking awful, I'm not sure how my sweet potatoes look so awful, it was just an awful mess all around. I've tried to salvage what I could to end the growing season, this has helped quite a bit. Many thanks!
Spread it brother. Great vid. Informative, helpful and to the point. A true rarity on TH-cam these days. Subbed ❤️
Thank you! I kept watering my squash and was confused why it was still limp. Now I know!
I'm in Mississippi where it is 100 to 110. 85 would be balmy!
Same. In TN
Great video,! Just wondering if adding shade cloth over the plants would help. Here in North Texas, 85° - 90° comes early in the year....
Thanks for the info it's just what I was looking for. Out of 35 yrs. I've never had this problem so I was stumped . Thank you