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 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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Youre GREAT, your gardening advice is extreemly helpful
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
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.
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 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
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
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.
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. :)
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.
@@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.
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!
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.
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.
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... ;-)
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
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.
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!
I'll put this before I see the video. But with zucchini I've run into where the heat will make the drop flowers before it can fruit. Have to make sure to grow them early enough to give them time. Not sure if there is a way to work over the heat to get them through the summer to let them keep fruiting though.
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
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.
I can't speak for MI Gardener... but I personally cut all the weeds / grasses as short as possible. Cover with recycled brown paper shopping bags. Cover the bags with mulch - I prefer wood chips (looks nice and lasts the longest), but grass clippings or chopped up leaf mold will work too.
We've gotten a lot of rain lately, and the tomato plants grew and flowered like crazy, but the blooms dried up and fell off. Never set any fruit. Do you think the problem is too much rain?
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!
Should I remove dead flower clusters off the stem of tomato plant?? Flowers are sterile from either heat or lack of pollination. If I remove them will it encourage more flower clusters along the main stem?
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.
Hi Luke , I am interested in Apple trees. I have planted 3 different kinds Mackintosh, Gala, granny smith. And I planted them about 3 years ago, they are about 12 feet apart from each other they stand over 10 feet tall. My question is how long must I wait for fruit and what can I put in the soil to help them grow strong? Thanks
Amazing information. I live in Malaysia and it’s always hot and humid here. How may I add organic calcium to the plants and is it safe to spray organic Foliar spray before the plant stars flowering
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
You mentioned about the heat and we are in our third heat wave. When the weather cools down, will the plants resume with blossoms and fruiting or are they done ?
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?
What about putting a little organic matter down in the dirt? Peanut shells a chunk of watermelon etc? Almost like a mini compost section the roots can seek out
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!
You said you had calcium to your garden all the time regardless, how exactly do you had calcium to your garden, thanks for the video, I'm having this problem, so very helpful
@@412Myco thanks for taking the time to answer back, I'll look that up and see how to make that, I do add eggshells, but like most organic items it takes time to break down, so we are going that route but in the short term I'd like to get something in that can help with the plants or the grounds deficiency, I really appreciate it, thank you again
Thanks for info- im pretty rookie season gardener and u grow mostly in pots. So, What about fixes for most of those issues? I understand what problems could be but idk what to do about them?🤷♀️
Crushed eggs works but it's over time not immediately. Get some garden lime and add 2 handfuls to a gallon of water and mix it up to make a slurry. For a plant grown in a container like a 5 gallon bucket, which is what I've done, add 2 cups of the slurry to the pot. I used a red solo cup. This gives your plant immediate calcium. In a container plant you only need to do this once maybe twice during the season.
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.
What about purple leaves, what causes that, giving water, taking them in when raining too hard. Only thing I can think of might be stress? Had tomatoes in there small pots from garden centre for a couple of weeks, then planted three together and realised the pot was too small, so planted each one now in 60cm container. ... Wondering what factor it might be and hoping they recover
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❤🌱🍅
I've been saving and crushing up all my egg shells. Are they a good way to add calcium? Would it be better to powder them in a food processor or is crushed ok? Thanks!
Not if you just put them down. (Won't deter snails either.) Long run (like for next year) add them to the compost and let the soil microbes do the work. You can make a water soluble and available calcium leaf spray with vinegar (dry the eggs in the sun first) but I was double checking my chemistry - I try not to rely on my memory alone for passing along advice - and the first article I read ( www.permaculturenews.org/2012/09/08/adding-calcium-one-egg-at-a-time/ )has a few [buried] details worth keeping in mind: - calcium you spray on the leaves isn't going to move around, but it does let root-available calcium go to the rest of the plant - check the soil ph - if it's out of the right range then the calcium can't be taken up (this was the reason why they were spraying, ammendment to the right ph was actually going to be more work) Thanks for writing this by the way, you reminded me that I need to follow up with the big picture advice I'm about to give you: get the soil tested by sending off samples to a lab. It takes time so this is more a fix for next year than right now, but it avoids the guesswork about what to do. (Try to find a localish recommendation from an agriculture school.) I'm leaning towards putting the egg shells in the compost and just getting a ready-made leaf (foliar) spray. The reason for using organic fertilizer is that it works with the (much slower, but better regulated) natural uptake roots were built for. If you are going to spray something all over the plant a commercially made inorganic spray will save you a lot of work, salmonella risk, and the plant won't know the difference. (I just had issues with two plants in very different soil patches so I suspect it's the recent heat, but I'm considering spraying it just in case.)
Yeah tomatoes love water and can easily get blossom end rot in this heat. I'm thinking a great solution is to get some deep clay pots to place in the soil to fill with water and then let slowly wick to the tomato plants so they always have some constant water
@@ceciliahoward2119 right I've never actually done it but I've only heard good things and I'm definitely going to do that method and I'm sure Luke would benefit sticking some in the corners and middle of his beds so he wouldn't have to dig up his beds for Hügelkultur...
I see some are posting that Epsom salt adds Calcium to the soil. Epsom salt does not add calcium to soil. Epsom salt is magnesium sulfate, so it contains magnesium, sulfur, and oxygen (along with some water).
Great video but what’s the solution for less nitrate and perhaps more calcium??? My geraniums totally stopped producing blooms because, I believe, it’s waaay too hot. HOWEVER, it COULD be too much nitrate. How do you fix it? Move the plant inside? Then it won’t be hot enough, right? And how do you reduce the nitrate??? I was hoping to find answers to fix my geranium plant. The leaves are thick, green, hearty…so I’m pretty sure they’re getting the amount of water they need. But it’s been hot (95-high humidity) but they did good last year same temp. 🤷🏼♀️
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
Thanks for the good information. Does shade cloth help much and can you tell me what I would use to get calcium into the soil if I need it? I enjoy your videos. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
I had same issue so purchased shade cloth from Amazon to cover my plants when the temperature is above 90. I watched another video where it was suggested to use Tums so tried today to resolve calcium deficiency in my plants. Hope this helps!
I want to start by saying thank you for your videos, they are so informative. I do need some advice on my garden boxes,if you could please. My boxes are 4x4x12” deep. I bought ultra soil from living earth soil company to fill them , it’s supposed to be fertilized, it seems sandy with some mulch in it , lots of bark. I’m thinking this not working, nothing is flowering or growing , it is just living ,barley. I’m in south east Texas ,heat might be an issue, but water is fine , I added plant food and it sparked a change so I’m thinking soil is the problem . How can I amend this soil, start over with new soil or what path should I take ? Thanks for any input, I’m new and clueless to gardening.
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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
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 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.
Awesome video! It explained why my tomatoes are not flowering.....TOO HOT in Texas....no tomatoes this Summer 2023....
“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 😆
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.
You have a nice way of explaining things...never thought of roots being like the digestive system but it makes sense...
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Youre GREAT, your gardening advice is extreemly helpful
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
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?
TQ for sharing info n tips abt other veges/plants too.
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
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
12 best minutes of gardening help iv ever got on youtube. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
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
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.
Thanx,good to know pepper plants are dropping flowers&fruit.Heat advisory in Pa
I love ur video u explain everything so well thank u for taking time out of ur day!!!! Greatly appreciated.
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. :)
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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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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
No wonder ! My plants had to deal with extreme triple digits , here in California . Good to know
You answered ALL my questions, thanks so much!!! Very good!
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.
Thank you! I love the video. Very informative and thorough.
so what type of calcium would you apply Luke?
Yeah, what kind?
bees and wasps and butterflies! must self pollinate sometimes :D get that moisture in the ground with some healthy mulch.
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!
Great video, very informative! Thank you
Great video,! Just wondering if adding shade cloth over the plants would help. Here in North Texas, 85° - 90° comes early in the year....
I'll put this before I see the video. But with zucchini I've run into where the heat will make the drop flowers before it can fruit. Have to make sure to grow them early enough to give them time. Not sure if there is a way to work over the heat to get them through the summer to let them keep fruiting though.
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
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.
What you put around the peach trees to prevent weeds from growing?..please make a video on how you do that without using herbicides. Thanks
I can't speak for MI Gardener... but I personally cut all the weeds / grasses as short as possible. Cover with recycled brown paper shopping bags. Cover the bags with mulch - I prefer wood chips (looks nice and lasts the longest), but grass clippings or chopped up leaf mold will work too.
Hostas and other bulb plants work really well and look nice around the base of my fruit trees
I wish I had half your gardening knowledge Luke, thank you!!!
Excellent post your vdo, thank you very much.
Thanks again from Missouri. Always good information.
What do you think about a fruit set spray? Is it bad it eat those tomatoes if you used a blossom set spray?
Good job explaining thank you
We've gotten a lot of rain lately, and the tomato plants grew and flowered like crazy, but the blooms dried up and fell off. Never set any fruit. Do you think the problem is too much rain?
Yeah add NPK
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!
I’m new to gardening, so... I have many questions, but the most relevant one here is: what type of compost make the best calcium fertilizers?
Finely grind egg shells and mix them into your compost. Smaller pieces will break down and be readily available faster than larger pieces.
YOU are the best! thanks for your knowledge!
Should I remove dead flower clusters off the stem of tomato plant?? Flowers are sterile from either heat or lack of pollination. If I remove them will it encourage more flower clusters along the main stem?
I'm wondering the same thing!
Will shade cloths help?
yes it sure would.
For sure
Absolutely, it works for me every time.
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.
I have planted in the ground some fruit trees last spring the trees still a life but not producing any leaves is that ok ! Thanks
water them slow trickle for 20-30 min each!
Hi Luke , I am interested in Apple trees. I have planted 3 different kinds Mackintosh, Gala, granny smith. And I planted them about 3 years ago, they are about 12 feet apart from each other they stand over 10 feet tall. My question is how long must I wait for fruit and what can I put in the soil to help them grow strong?
Thanks
Amazing information. I live in Malaysia and it’s always hot and humid here. How may I add organic calcium to the plants and is it safe to spray organic Foliar spray before the plant stars flowering
I'm in Mississippi where it is 100 to 110. 85 would be balmy!
Same. In TN
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
You mentioned about the heat and we are in our third heat wave. When the weather cools down, will the plants resume with blossoms and fruiting or are they done ?
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?
Thank u so much for ur advice it gave me some kind of hope with my tomatoes.
What about putting a little organic matter down in the dirt? Peanut shells a chunk of watermelon etc? Almost like a mini compost section the roots can seek out
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.
Here in Minnesota it’s been 92% humidity 🥵
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!
You said you had calcium to your garden all the time regardless, how exactly do you had calcium to your garden, thanks for the video, I'm having this problem, so very helpful
You can make a liquid calcium called calphos or add eggshells to your soil
@@412Myco thanks for taking the time to answer back, I'll look that up and see how to make that, I do add eggshells, but like most organic items it takes time to break down, so we are going that route but in the short term I'd like to get something in that can help with the plants or the grounds deficiency, I really appreciate it, thank you again
What do you suggest for calcium ?
Dude I give you a 10 star rating this video was perfect for me thank you very much.
The heat in Michigan has been awful lately yuck. Great video.
Make a lot of sense. Thanks for posting.
Thanks for info- im pretty rookie season gardener and u grow mostly in pots. So, What about fixes for most of those issues? I understand what problems could be but idk what to do about them?🤷♀️
Yes you helped me. Thanks
very informative
What about herbs, berries etc? Do you want to cut off the showering?
Great advice.Thanks.
awesome video Luke thanks for sharing that
So what is the best way to add calcium to existing plants?
Crushed eggshells
@@terresab618 Awesome we use lots of eggs here.
Crushed eggs works but it's over time not immediately. Get some garden lime and add 2 handfuls to a gallon of water and mix it up to make a slurry. For a plant grown in a container like a 5 gallon bucket, which is what I've done, add 2 cups of the slurry to the pot. I used a red solo cup. This gives your plant immediate calcium. In a container plant you only need to do this once maybe twice during the season.
Thank you! I kept watering my squash and was confused why it was still limp. Now I know!
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.
what do you recommend as a calcium builder.
I have fans circulation in green House grow light also have overhead fans
What about purple leaves, what causes that, giving water, taking them in when raining too hard. Only thing I can think of might be stress? Had tomatoes in there small pots from garden centre for a couple of weeks, then planted three together and realised the pot was too small, so planted each one now in 60cm container. ... Wondering what factor it might be and hoping they recover
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 info as usual. Thanks!
I've been saving and crushing up all my egg shells. Are they a good way to add calcium? Would it be better to powder them in a food processor or is crushed ok? Thanks!
Not if you just put them down. (Won't deter snails either.) Long run (like for next year) add them to the compost and let the soil microbes do the work.
You can make a water soluble and available calcium leaf spray with vinegar (dry the eggs in the sun first) but I was double checking my chemistry - I try not to rely on my memory alone for passing along advice - and the first article I read ( www.permaculturenews.org/2012/09/08/adding-calcium-one-egg-at-a-time/ )has a few [buried] details worth keeping in mind:
- calcium you spray on the leaves isn't going to move around, but it does let root-available calcium go to the rest of the plant
- check the soil ph - if it's out of the right range then the calcium can't be taken up (this was the reason why they were spraying, ammendment to the right ph was actually going to be more work)
Thanks for writing this by the way, you reminded me that I need to follow up with the big picture advice I'm about to give you: get the soil tested by sending off samples to a lab. It takes time so this is more a fix for next year than right now, but it avoids the guesswork about what to do. (Try to find a localish recommendation from an agriculture school.)
I'm leaning towards putting the egg shells in the compost and just getting a ready-made leaf (foliar) spray. The reason for using organic fertilizer is that it works with the (much slower, but better regulated) natural uptake roots were built for. If you are going to spray something all over the plant a commercially made inorganic spray will save you a lot of work, salmonella risk, and the plant won't know the difference. (I just had issues with two plants in very different soil patches so I suspect it's the recent heat, but I'm considering spraying it just in case.)
Yeah tomatoes love water and can easily get blossom end rot in this heat. I'm thinking a great solution is to get some deep clay pots to place in the soil to fill with water and then let slowly wick to the tomato plants so they always have some constant water
ollas work great for tomatoes and peppers.
@@ceciliahoward2119 right I've never actually done it but I've only heard good things and I'm definitely going to do that method and I'm sure Luke would benefit sticking some in the corners and middle of his beds so he wouldn't have to dig up his beds for Hügelkultur...
John Doe have you tried the clay pots filled with water and did it work?
I see some are posting that Epsom salt adds Calcium to the soil. Epsom salt does not add calcium to soil. Epsom salt is magnesium sulfate, so it contains magnesium, sulfur, and oxygen (along with some water).
Thank you, Luke! Yet another great video.
Great video but what’s the solution for less nitrate and perhaps more calcium??? My geraniums totally stopped producing blooms because, I believe, it’s waaay too hot. HOWEVER, it COULD be too much nitrate. How do you fix it? Move the plant inside? Then it won’t be hot enough, right? And how do you reduce the nitrate??? I was hoping to find answers to fix my geranium plant. The leaves are thick, green, hearty…so I’m pretty sure they’re getting the amount of water they need. But it’s been hot (95-high humidity) but they did good last year same temp. 🤷🏼♀️
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
Thanks for the good information. Does shade cloth help much and can you tell me what I would use to get calcium into the soil if I need it? I enjoy your videos. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
I had same issue so purchased shade cloth from Amazon to cover my plants when the temperature is above 90. I watched another video where it was suggested to use Tums so tried today to resolve calcium deficiency in my plants. Hope this helps!
I want to start by saying thank you for your videos, they are so informative. I do need some advice on my garden boxes,if you could please. My boxes are 4x4x12” deep. I bought ultra soil from living earth soil company to fill them , it’s supposed to be fertilized, it seems sandy with some mulch in it , lots of bark. I’m thinking this not working, nothing is flowering or growing , it is just living ,barley. I’m in south east Texas ,heat might be an issue, but water is fine , I added plant food and it sparked a change so I’m thinking soil is the problem . How can I amend this soil, start over with new soil or what path should I take ? Thanks for any input, I’m new and clueless to gardening.
Nice video. Learned alot.
Thank you so much
Great video on blossom end rot. One of my favorite recent videos.
Would be great if you could also include Celsius numbers!