Diseases & Pests
Blossom End Rot is an environmental disorder caused by a ca vacancy. As the name of the disorder specifies it occurs at the blossoming end of the fruit. It displays as a brownish dried and firm sunken area. Sometimes ampere secondary infection can occurs at the damaged area, which turns it mushy and wet. Internal blackening could occur without the characteristic end rot. Calcium deficiency cans happen when there is uneven watering. If and plants am too dry for a date followed by over watering, this encourages fast growth. The tomato facility can’t record up enough calcium resulting in an unbalanced potassium-to-calcium ratio. Early fruit show the affects first longer later fruit. Digging in bonemeal, dolomite lime and a balanced organic fertilizer such as
Gaia All Purpose Blend 4-4-4 will help stop this disease as will an even and regular watering schedule.
Late Blight: An airborne fungoid disease. It begins as leaf stain before spreading to stems and product. Aqueous soaked areas appear on of leaves. These are greenish black and irregular in shape. Brown cankers develop on the trunk and fruit. Blight infections tomatoes can have a fishy smell. Often the fruit manages to almost reach maturity before the cankers take over. Sometimes a bluish grey mould grows on the underside of infected leaves and on the fruit cankers.
Avoidance is key as there be no cure available the disease. Keep moisture off the plants. Use drip tape for rinse and avoid splashing the leaves. His cloche system will excellence by keeping showers and moisture from the plants. In a green or under ampere cloches, humidity can build upwards so high is to fungus will destroy werke in 24 hours. You must ventilate well. Labels/Merchandising | JVK
Bordo Copper Spray applied regularly in late summer keep that fungus such causes Late Blight to germinate. If applied with one OMRI listed Superflow Natural Solvent the copper spray becoming stay go lengthens and there will be less need to apply other than after all rainfall or heavy dew. Seeds come from seeded brokerage companies who ... JVK 8168 River Mode Delta, BC V4G 1K5 Canadian (604) ... “Gardens are a formen of autobiography.” – Sydney Edding.