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After returning home on Sunday I was oh so proud of my seven tomato plants, with three in particular looking so big and strong I couldn’t believe my beginners luck at growing these from seed.
On Sunday and Monday with the temperatures 18 – 20 degrees and lovely strong sunshine, I put all of my tomato, red pepper and chilli plants into the blow away with the door slightly opened for the day. Giving them some much needed fresh air and a gentle breeze to toughen them up a little. I brought them in at night to stay warm and cosy with the night time temperatures still dropping quite low.
On Tuesday temperature were lower during the day (about 14 degrees) so I decided to put the tomatoes in the blow away but leave the chillies and peppers indoors. I have also begun watering all of my plants ‘from the bottom’ into the trays they are sat in rather than into the top of the pot in an attempt to make sure I don’t over water them. This seems to be working well.
So what is the problem I hear you cry? Well, getting home from work on Tuesday evening and moving my toms indoors I notices that some of their leaves have lost their intense lovely green colour and started to turn a rather pale green / yellow. I had thought they looked rather bleached and hoped that putting them outside hadn’t caused all of this.
Looking online I think I may have discovered the problem to be a magnesium deficiency. Hmmmm. The tomatoes were down on 21.02.2011 and I thought the compost would have enough ‘food’ for about 8 weeks which will be in about a weeks time. So how do I fix this magnesium problem?
a) Begin feeding my tomatoes with Tomatorite which has added magnesium? I though however that you were not supposed to start adding extra feed to tomatoes until they begin to fruit?
b) I have read about Epsom Salts (dissolved into water in a spray bottle, spraying the plants leaves to give them the magnesium they need). My question is though, do you spray the whole plant? Just the leaves affected? How often? How long for?
Also, lets say I go for option B, should I still start to feed my tomato plants something at the moment as the compost will have run out of ‘food’ and if so, what? Tomatorite? Or something else entirely?
I will upload some photos when I can later this evening.
On Sunday and Monday with the temperatures 18 – 20 degrees and lovely strong sunshine, I put all of my tomato, red pepper and chilli plants into the blow away with the door slightly opened for the day. Giving them some much needed fresh air and a gentle breeze to toughen them up a little. I brought them in at night to stay warm and cosy with the night time temperatures still dropping quite low.
On Tuesday temperature were lower during the day (about 14 degrees) so I decided to put the tomatoes in the blow away but leave the chillies and peppers indoors. I have also begun watering all of my plants ‘from the bottom’ into the trays they are sat in rather than into the top of the pot in an attempt to make sure I don’t over water them. This seems to be working well.
So what is the problem I hear you cry? Well, getting home from work on Tuesday evening and moving my toms indoors I notices that some of their leaves have lost their intense lovely green colour and started to turn a rather pale green / yellow. I had thought they looked rather bleached and hoped that putting them outside hadn’t caused all of this.
Looking online I think I may have discovered the problem to be a magnesium deficiency. Hmmmm. The tomatoes were down on 21.02.2011 and I thought the compost would have enough ‘food’ for about 8 weeks which will be in about a weeks time. So how do I fix this magnesium problem?
a) Begin feeding my tomatoes with Tomatorite which has added magnesium? I though however that you were not supposed to start adding extra feed to tomatoes until they begin to fruit?
b) I have read about Epsom Salts (dissolved into water in a spray bottle, spraying the plants leaves to give them the magnesium they need). My question is though, do you spray the whole plant? Just the leaves affected? How often? How long for?
Also, lets say I go for option B, should I still start to feed my tomato plants something at the moment as the compost will have run out of ‘food’ and if so, what? Tomatorite? Or something else entirely?
I will upload some photos when I can later this evening.
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