How to water tomatoes? "Reading" their leaves...
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- čas přidán 10. 07. 2020
- In this video we show how to read the leaves and identify if your tomatoes need (or not) some water.
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Very helpful. Thank you!
You've answered all my questions regarding my tomatoe plants. Thank you.
Excellent!! Happy to help. :)
Helpful and to the point. More videos like this. Thanks.
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You are amazing! This is the most helpful video on tomatoes I've seen! Thank you!
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Wow thank you for helping me help my plant.
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Great information, thanks!
You're welcome! Hope it's helpful. :)
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Awesome video!
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thank you - super helpful!
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This was so concise. That you so much. I'm drowning mine 😓
You’re welcome and I’m glad that it’s helpful.!It’s hard to fight that instinct to water everything that we love. 😂 I do it with my seedlings every year, despite knowing better.
We've been on winter season and watering them twice a day. On plant gave out 3 tomatoes, one was bigger than the other two. They all had infection, blight. A friend said its cos they don't get enough water but been watering them twice a day for a long time now.
One plant showed me a yellow leaf, I checked it today. So I came here for solutions and I see that I over did the watering. Most of them are in the process of fruiting, they have buds and have green leaves. I'll take a week without watering them cos I've been doing it daily and twice🤦♂️
Did it help? Now I need an update 😂
Me too i need an update bc i live in La county California and i did the same thing you did i have 2 tomato plants new to growing its been a struggle from garden gnats to white butterflies
It has been 95 degrees here in Mo for the past two weeks. I water them every other day and the soil is dry. They are in pots outside. Well drained. Put em in 1st week of may and they are fruiting. One is beefsteak the other is midnight cherries. They still look pretty raggedy. I dunno.
Pots dry out way faster and 95 is ROUGH; sorry. They’ll drop flowers at those temps. 😕
@WellGroundedGardens Should I maybe water them every day then? Dont want to overwater them either.
Been at it a few years and with the high norcal temps moisture retention is a big issue. You prefer wood chip mulch toms or perhaps a mix? Rice straw helped but not 'mulch' lol
Great vid thank you 💚
Love the pun 🤣. For mulch my prior favorite was grass clippings or ideally (once fall comes) a mowed-over mixture of leaves and grass-to compost in place. Over time I’m shifting to living mulches, instead, and used mustard this year. Great for pollination 👍
@@WellGroundedGardens same! Looking at rat tail radish white Dutch clover and mustard coincidentally... I think comfrey is also a good one :)
Nice! I haven’t tried radish other than in a fall blend (peas, oats, tillage radish)
My branches are drooping but my tomato plant is healthy dark green with a little curl, no beige colour, they feel soft too i worry if i might of over water it. The soil is not too moist and cool, its not because of the heat because i live in canada the weather lately was not hot at all but humid and cool, i really don't know what it is at least my plant is still flowering properly and nicely.
That sounds possibly like overwatering or possibly a bit of transplant shock-did you plant them, recently?
Could you explain the difference between leaf cupping from pesticide drift vs leaf curling that plant needs water? My husband sprayed Spectracide to get rid of clover in the lawn. I covered my raised beds with old bed sheets but I'm not sure how effective it was since it was porous. It was warm, low to mid 70's and the plants were covered approximately 3 hours so they got warm. The leaves do look similar to yours but I'm being overly cautious and want to make sure. If you can help with pesticide drift and when I could safely replant if necessary it would be greatly appreciated.
Hi! I haven’t had pesticide drift, myself, but from what I’ve read the main difference is that when you have curling from pesticides the leaves can’t be flattened to a normal shape and then when it’s from heat or low water, the curled leaves CAN be flattened to a normal shape. Hoping that’s helpful…I also found this resource from the University of Tennessee. They show Dicamba (ingredient in Spectracide) on page 5. extension.tennessee.edu/publications/Documents/W295-B.pdf
@@WellGroundedGardens Thanks so much! I'm looking at as many resources as I can, OSU Master Gardener, Pesticide Agencies, etc. I may end up pulling all my plants but I hope I can find answers to reassure me.
@@sherimetschan961 you’re welcome! I’d water thoroughly and see if they uncurl, if so, it’s probably not pesticide exposure 🤞
@@WellGroundedGardens Thanks again. I will water and I will still call my extension service when they open this morning.
Hey, I had a question. I'm growing an okay-sized cherry tomato and a beefsteak. The thing is, the beefsteak seems a bit stunted, even though I water it every morning until it drains out the bottom. By the next day, if I check the soil, it's pretty dry. I'm in Virginia, and lately it's been between 80 and mid 90s. My leaves are a little droopy, with a couple slightly yellow or brownish leaves towards the bottom. The beefsteak is also quite a bit smaller than I believe it is supposed to be. I don't have good soil where I live, so putting it in the ground wasn't an option, so I put it in a five-gallon bucket with some decent soil I got from tractor supply. Do you have any advice? Most of the plant seems to be fine, I guess, but just droopy instead of the stems being fairly straight down the curve. not to a drastic degree, but just a little. I also noticed that even though it's maybe a little under a foot tall, it has a tomato on it. It has more blooms, but it seems the flowers on it have shriveled up and dried out.
Are you fertilizing it?
@@WellGroundedGardens didn't figure i needed to, it was a nutrient rich soil i used said it was would continue nurturing up to a 100 and smth days
Does this apply to toms in pots too ?
Same principles but you’d want to check more frequently since they dry out, faster
Will a drooping wilting leaf indicate too much water?
This is one of those “probably annoying” answers but they’ll droop with too much water and with not enough. If you let the soil dry out a bit, see them droop, then see them recover when watered you know it was the latter. In general I try to err on the side of slightly too little water as that’s easier to remedy.
Can anyone share with me what she's calling the leaves that are squeezing out a little water.... sounds like gatasian. The transcript says guitar and that's not right😄 It's a term I haven't previously learned and would love to know more about. Thanks!!!
Guttation 😁
@@WellGroundedGardens thank you so much! I hoped you would respond since the video is older. I appreciate it. Good to keep learning!
Can i send you pics of my tomato plant leaves? I'm not 100% sure what the issue is. Thanks!
Happy to give it a shot! You should also ask your local Master Gardener extension service (ours is really good); most of them have email and chat options where they’ll look at photos, and they know the relevant local issues. But yes, I’m happy to try, too. :)
Very informative. I’m in Southern Ontario and we’ve had more rain than usual. We have 5 large planters and the plants have really slowed in their growth and they’re not producing fruit. I’ll watch for that leaf curl beginning today. Aug 5/23,thank you.
I’m glad it was helpful!
i was wondering about the leaf curl had me worried
The leaves at the top of my plant are green but drooping/limp from the top to the bottom...leaves are not curled. Is this a sign of over watering?
Do the leaves perk back up at night?
No. They are still limp but very green. Not yellow or brown or leathery.
If they aren’t yellowing, or recovering at night, then that suggests it isn’t fusarium wilt, and you’d also expect yellowing if they were overwatered; it’s hard to tell from a written description but if you’ve already tried giving them more water, my only thought is a different disease. Only one plant is affected?
I would have like to have seen yellow leaves vs early blight, but of course you wont allow that in your garden so we dont see it , but many people do see it.
So far we’ve avoided early blight, but I’m sure it’ll come for me someday. I did get verticillium wilt two years ago and it’s the pits
Only question left--how much water do we give when water is needed?
I aim for them to get 1” of water a week; I have a rain gauge and use that to estimate how much more they need in any given week.
GENIUS 💪⚡🍻🙏
What about potted cherries?
Same basic principles but they’ll dry out faster and I keep a closer eye on them in dry spells and hot weather.
What if they are limp and soggy?? 😢
If they’re limp/droopy and sitting in damp soil I’d worry about fungal diseases 😬