15 Tomato Myths (BUSTED)
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- There are many tomato growing tips, but not all of them are supported by research and experience. Gardener Scott bust 15 common tomato myths. (Video #479)
00:38 Yellow leaves are bad
01:48 Tomatoes need a lot of water
02:35 Fruit needs sun to ripen
03:21 Remove all suckers
04:30 Best to ripen fully on the vine
05:15 Tomatoes turn red when ripe
06:07 More sun is better
07:10 Flowers need bees to pollinate
08:02 Add calcium to cure blossom end rot
08:57 Add sugar for sweeter taste
09:29 Add Epsom salt for better taste and to cure BER
10:20 Only paste tomatoes can make sauce
11:33 Companion plants affect flavor
12:18 Hairs on stems grow roots
13:16 Shouldn't refrigerate tomatoes
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Some of the myths frustrate me when I hear them. Great video mate
Thanks, Tony. The frustration can be overwhelming.
Another brilliant video Scott
I grinned when I saw it appear
Agree with all. BUT...I do lightly tap the small branch of my perfect flowers. A preference, a habit, a need in a very humid climate where the air/wind gets "stale" - sure. The epsom salts...great to use in the bath after working in the garden all day (that's the best use of epsom in dealing with the garden).
I enjoy gardening. Two thumbs up Gardener Scott. Enjoying my Box Car Willie tomatoes in BLT's, soooo Good😋.
Thank You for clarifying what the myths are for growing tomatoes. There sure are a lot of them out there.
Thank you for this video. I am having debates with someone over most of these. It's driving me nuts.
As I'm relearning. Balancing soil moisture? Mulch! It's so abundant in my cooked lawn now. Mulch is the top inch of each planter.
Thanks Scott!
I found that in my garden, my tomatoes like afternoon shade.
I wind pollinate my tomatoes with a leaf blower on the lowest power setting.
If you keep the stem on the tomato (and unbruised), it lasts FOREVER on the counter unrefrigerated.
Ok, so it wasn’t just a fluke! At the end of last season I brought in a huge truss of currant tomatoes in anticipation of a frost and they stayed fresh and slowly ripened over the next month. It was wonderful! Great tip for any time of year, thanks!
Thank You for the last tomato myth. I have never placed any tomato in the fridge, believing it would loose flavor. How many times have I eaten 1/2 of a ripe tomato only to come back the next day or so it is soft and mushy.
Now I got it, once ripe, its OK to refrigerate.
Stay Well!!!
Excellent compilation of myths about Tomato growing. Spring is about to start here and I am preparing my seedlings for our summer now. Thanks for all the information and tips.
I always learn something from every video! TY!
Thank you! The hairs thing, I learned something new tonight!
Always great advice based on real gardening experience. Extremely valuable
Awesome tips! Thank you... Direct sun is a real issue... I always have sunflowers that act as canopies for them.. Otherwise, they will get fried to a crisp.. and this is true throughout my garden in this drought and heat zone... Now we are fighting 110f+ weather and the tomatoes do not like this.. of course the only thing that likes this heat are the weeds... We are going on 2 weeks now of 95f+ but the end is in sight... I will need to go through with my machete and start the recovery process!..
@GardenerScott,
You're the new Bravo Sierra busting sheriff in town. These videos are great! 👍 Please make more like this.
Another suggestion would be to do some Myth Buster style videos. With actual experiments. Then at the end of the video, the myth would be ruled as busted, plausible, confirmed, whatever. You could even do collaboration videos with some other intelligent, well-informed CZcams gardener. The Garden Myth Busters.
As far as the last myth about refrigerating tomatoes, there's some merit to what you say, but that one's kind of iffy. I question whether it makes that big of a difference. Pretty much all refrigerated tomatoes taste nasty regardless.
And companion planting basil with tomatoes makes the tomatoes taste SO much better. Yeah right. I'm glad you included that one.
Thanks for the suggestion, Donny. Garden Myth Busters is an interesting idea.
I've got a 1/8" steel rod 2 ft long. I'll tap around my tomatoes and peppers if I feel they need pollination help ,and I believe it's working well.
As always, you do know a lot about plants
I'm happy I had not heard many of those myths! The rest I am happy to report I have not fallen for though I do like a fertilizer high in calcium. 😕
Thank you for fact based and substantiated information.
😊😊😊
Great tips
I diluted lime in some water and a tad bit of vinegar. It stopped my blossom end rot in its tracks.
You can harvest at breaker stage...but i WILL HAVE exponentially more solinine in the fruit. If you let it fulllllllyy ripen on the vine the vast majority of the solonine will cycle back in to the plant. As someone with lupus this is the biggest reason i started gardening. My home grown tomatoes vine ripened do not affect my joints the way grocery store tomatos do...but also my homegrown tomatos picked at breaker stage at frost time i absolutely have the same problem in my joints as i do grocery store tomatos.
As soon as I put up 40% shade cloth, I saw more blossoms appear that turned into fruit in this heat. My grape tomatoes were spindly and slow growing, but then they filled right out and have tons of blossoms after putting up the shade cloth, too. I just make sure there's plenty of airflow, nothing hanging on the ground..
Everything you just went over is alot of common sense. I have heard of everything you have gone over. I have believed alot if them. Thanks for explaining. Especially planting the tomatoes and shsaking the plant etc i feel silly
Oh thank you ❤
😂😂Now post this on Tic Toc and watch it explode😂.
I think the 😂 wackiest thing I’ve heard was telling people to take and electric toothbrush to each tomatoe blossom to pollinate them 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂. Don’t know if that person was invested in electric toothbrushes, but give it a break. Seriously?!? Who has the time for one and the other, well, it involves professional help.
I’ve only prune the bottoms and sometimes throughout summer for air. I’ve learned drip irrigation works excellent in my sandy soil and thick mulch. I have little chance of overwatering in sand and .5 gph emitters every 6”. We had 109* yesterday and 103* today and thankfully it’s moving out right now. I was so happy I installed drip as I tuned it on for both gardens for an hour or so each morning. I have a ton of tomatoes and peppers and this current system has increased volume and size.
I don’t believe these myths are area specific, but hey, if it works for you, have at it. If it sounds whacky it probably is.
All true and a great video. I'm curious on how to ripen your tomatoes that are just not ready. I have a first little round of tomatoes not all by choice. Had a storm come through and knocked some off. From haft to a quarter green. Of course the ripened onces too. Going to have my hand at making sauce. I'm going to put the not ready tomatoes together with a banana in a paper bag. Any thoughts?
Thanks! Once they start changing color they can continue to ripen on a table or counter. The banana works to hasten the process and an apple works too.
Somewhat off topic but this has me stumped. I have a cucumber plant growing very well and grown from seed I should add. the problem is it only has male flowers. Not one fruit in sight and this plant is growing gang-busters. What can I do to encourage female flowers? Or should I just discard this plant to the compost as a non-productive producer? Thanks.
Poor soil nutrition and environmental stress are the most common causes. If it's been hot for you, cool weather should produce female flowers. You can try pinching off some of the male flowers to promote female ones.
Thank you, yes it has been hot here in 9b Sacramento. @@GardenerScott
My plants are 6ft tall and not a single tomato has grown! Something is wrong with these big box store seeds
The first time ever I had a crazy problem. The grape tomato sent out bouquets of blossoms and maybe a few tomatoes. It was quite strange.
May need more Potassium. Too much nitrogen makes a beautiful plant, but little to no fruit. I had that problem my 1st year growing.
SCOTT Why are most of my San Marzano tomatoes outside diameter maybe 2.5-3" and only a few are full and maybe 6-7" around? Can you show yours?
Mine are still small and green. High temperature, plant stress, too much nitrogen and too many fruits can explain why some may be small.
I grew them last year and wasn’t impressed by small size. I usually don’t have problems with blossom end rot, but one SM did. I didn’t have irrigation then and lack of water could have been an issue as I’ve noticed increase in size of Amish Paste this year since we installed it.
@@GardenerScott 90% of mine were about 3-4" long and about the diameter of a medium carrot.
@dustyflats3832 The larger San Marzano were like the size and shape of an amish paste tomato
Oh yeah and watering with milk! Complete myth and a waste of good milk.
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