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Post by keith on Feb 4, 2020 3:01:16 GMT
I am trying to get a good feeding system for feeding my two tomato plants 1 mini Roma & 1 small cherry type. Both plants are about 7ft tall in a garden bed.
I have been using Blood and bone and Plant food N14. P1.4 K9.0
How much and how often per plant of the Plant food and the Blood and Bone
At the moment the lower leaves are dying off.
Keith
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Post by SueA on Feb 4, 2020 9:51:23 GMT
The only thing I tend to use on my tomato plants is seaweed feed which I just dilute as per the instructions on the bottle & water in about once a week & you can get tomato feed to use in the same way, mine are grown in a greenhouse though so you may need a different regime outdoors. I normally just pull off the lower leaves when they start dying off & some higher up as well to allow the light to get to the fruits & ripen them & pinch out the tops of the plants to stop them growing any higher & wasting energy on new leaves & fruits which won't get a chance to ripen in our dodgy summer weather but it could be different where you are with your long hot summer weather?
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Post by Cherry on Feb 4, 2020 12:39:39 GMT
The tomatoes don’t need as much nitrogen as you are using. This would suit leafy plants, which are grown for their leaves. The phosphorous needs to be high. A fertiliser especially for tomatoes would be best. I fed my tomatoes when the first fruit set. Blood and bone is slow release and would be more useful well before planting. A tomato fertiliser would give the rate and I fed very often.
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Post by sweetpea on Feb 4, 2020 13:58:32 GMT
Best in my opinion is Phostrogen closely followed by a seaweed based liquid feed. Both can be used as foliar and root feed. However in my own situation I grow my tomatoes using ring culture just occasionally growing directly in soil. With ring culture you just water the base and feed the rings. A very simple and effective way of growing tomatoes even on a solid surface like concrete. Of course growbags are another system but requires careful watering.
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Post by keith on Feb 4, 2020 22:30:41 GMT
Thank you all for those replies I will stop using the Blood & Bone. I will keep up the Tomato food and the Seasol which I have been using for many years but not on the tomatoes this season. I have been removing all the lower branches to let more light in also to see the tomatoes easier.
Keith
Edit 11.07am The Seasol I have is for Tomatoes and Vegetables.
Keith
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Post by Cherry on Feb 5, 2020 9:39:11 GMT
Seasol is great keith. I was known as the lemon and lime Queen when I brought a Bunnings lemon ‘Eureka’ into fruit after 3 years. I don’t hold Bunnings plants in high regard and thought it would never fruit. The lime ‘Tahiti’ went mad and I picked bunches of green ones for a long table decoration for St Andrews day on Magnetic Island. It really grew and loved the Seasol. Of course, in Queensland the shrubs grow twice as fast as Victoria. Can’t wait to hear how you get on with the tomatoes.
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Post by sweetpea on Feb 5, 2020 10:45:03 GMT
Don't think there's any Bunnings stores in South Wales unlike NEW South wales.
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