Tomato Plant Experiment - Over and Under Watering
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- čas přidán 15. 05. 2019
- I ended up sowing so many tomato plants this year that I thought it would be cool to sacrifice a few and do a little experiment. I was surprised at how resilient these plants are and gained some valuable knowledge in the process. I hope this helps a bit with your watering issues (if you have any). I watered (A) almost every other day, (B) when the soil looked dry, and (C) I only watered 3 times in a month. Perhaps I will do more trials like this with other plants in the future, as I learned that tomatoes don't need that much water. I have definitely been overwatering mine for years, leaving them more susceptible to diseases and just simply stressing them out.
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i dont comment much, but love this video.... tells me more then reading and trying to figure it out
This is a real helpful experiment. Thanks for all the efforts you have put in this experiment. Bring more real time experiments like this
I've been looking all over online for a good answer if my tomatoes are under or over watered. Thank you. I'm under watering!
I think this video proves that your intuition is probably more right than watching videos and reading things because sometimes you don't 'feel' like you should water, and sometimes you 'feel' like you should but you do what you've read or seen. I think you kind of somehow know when you should water them and when not and looking at this, i'd probably have gone instinctively to water like the B one.
This is a great video. Thank you for making it. This was extremely insightful.
That was really cool to see! Been having trouble figuring out water ratio for my plants so this is helpful
I've also been reading different sources online on watering. Is it best to do a deep watering every other day for cherry tomato plants?
Zynara Ng I water once a week very heavily.
Great video. Thanks for taking the time sir
Muchas gracias!!!
Very helpful. Thanks ks a lot. 👍👍👍
A - over
B -
C- under
thank for the video! useful for my own tomatoes
Great lesson, tx
Very helpful to us new gardener
Interesting
I added some beautiful compost to the 17 gallon tubs I’m growing tomatoes in this year. Unfortunately, I must not have mixed it well with the potting soil. I check the moisture level before watering. Early on I realized my tomatoes were staying wet for days. I haven’t watered them in over a week and I drilled holes almost as large as a quarter, in four places about two inches above the bottom of the tubs. I have all of the tubs on lifters so the containers can drain. The leaves are dark green, there are lots of blossoms and some tomatoes on above 1/2 the plants, including two beefsteaks, and a better boy. Yesterday I noticed some partiality wilted leaves, near the top of all my tomatoes. Some were just the tip of the leaf. Others, one whole leaf wilted. I checked for spider mites, a real problem in Southern California. None, thank goodness. I looked for various types of tomato worms and caterpillars, pretty rare in my gardens. None. I’m pretty sure my plants are drowning. Short of trying to remove the plants, add vermiculite (or something else?) mix everything up well and putting the plants back in, is there anything you would suggest? Should I just unpost, mix and add and replant? Anyone with experience, feel free to chime in.
R K it sounds like they are drowning- I would stop watering first off, you can correct an under watered plant very quickly, not so much the other way around. Perhaps some peat moss or coconut hull would be beneficial in soaking up excess moisture? Tomatoes have fairly shallow root systems so maybe digging around the sides of the containers and stuffing it with that will help to start the drying process. Or a rope dug in a ways down and then draped over the side. Your drain holes may be too high up the sides as well, I would drill some at the very bottom of the pots. I wonder with a container that big- what if you added some earthworms to help aerate the soil? Maybe use a dowel and poke some holes in the soil to simulate the effects? Just some thoughts- good luck!
Hi, I’m a newbie in planting tomatoes. I planted 3, and only one is actually fruiting for the flower. The other 2 are flowering, but the flower dropped. I tried tapping the flower to help pollination. Is flower drop a sign of too much or not enough watering? I water every other day. In the last week, I had cut back watering to every 3-4 days. I appreciate your insight in this. Thank you.
52WT T is this plant outside or inside?
I'm guilty of overwatering after I transplanted to very dry soil that I super-saturated. Will back off for a few days to see how things look.
Hello please I need help I have a tomato plant that is about 6 inches tall and has many leaves its bush like. And I'm growing it indoors with a grow light as I am in a building with no balconies. And the leaves are starting to. Curl but all are very strong branches and strong main stem. What can I do to help the plant and why is this happening to my poor plant 😔
ezzat jabban start watering your plant once a week from the bottom with a tray. Fill the tray with water, allow the pot to soak up enough that the topsoil is damp, pour out the excess water and wait until next week to water again. I would also add a fan to the setup if you don’t already have one. A small one that will circulate a light breeze, not directly on the plant.
Mine look overwatered with the new leaf stems curling under, hopefully that's all.
why did the underwatered one not recover after the last water?
lazy carper it did... I shot the final sequence about 15 minutes after the last shown watering. Two days later that plant was doing fine and went on to produce a healthy yield that summer in the garden. 😁
What if you have a mix of over water look and under water look in the TomAtoe plant ?
Then you should step on them.
Perhaps it’s a disease rather than a watering issue-
My toms just started looking like C (underwatered), we had a rainfall the day after i watered it early this week... so I'm scared to water it! but the soil seems dry even a couple inches down. All the leaves are very flimsy. It has flowered lots and I have 2 fruit starting but the droopyness has me scared!
Any insight is extremely appreciated as I have my very first fruit starting!!
xperrience if the soil is dry and you haven’t been watering a lot I would water them. The flimsy leaves make me think it’s dry... are they in pots? I would water very heavy once a day, about a gallon... if the soil is extremely dry it will take awhile for it to accept the moisture- once it gets to a certain point it almost repels water rather than absorbing it, keep that up for 2-3 days until the soil is saturated and watch the plant. Then maybe water, heavily, about once a week.
@@greeneacreshomestead I took a gamble anyway with my gut and gave em a good watering and the next day they rebounded pretty well! I was only nervous because I have watered them a couple days before that and we got heavy rain. Right when this all happened
xperrience glad to hear it! Happy growing!
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I grow mine in pots.. some large and some smaller. How often would you say I should water them? And should I water shallowly or deeply each time? I live in England so we get a fair bit of rain but I know that not all that rain gets to the compost as the leaves act like an umbrella. Also.. we recently had 31C (90F) sunny hot weather and the leaves have curled up a little - and the leaf sets itself (the whole set, not the indivisible leaves) seemed to have changed its angle upwards (imagine the angle from which the set arise from the main stem, previously it was going up about 30 degrees but now they’re up to 70-80 degrees, almost parallel to the main stem!) - strange phenomenon. Any ideas? I thought it might be stress from the unusually hot and sunny two days we’ve had..
robrosy I would recommend bringing your pots out of the rain if possible or maybe cover them with some sort of tarp setup that you can clip up and take down when needed, perhaps a small poly tunnel. A lot of water on the plant itself causes numerous issues. Try to just water the roots. Since they’re in pot try to use trays and water from the bottom (fill the tray) and allow the pot to soak up water until the topsoil is damp. I would water heavy once a week, I like Saturday myself.
Greene Acres Homestead Thank you.. I didn’t mention that I garden on a large rooftop terrace which occasionally gets a big windy so I don’t think a poly tunnel is feasible - as it might get blown away by the wind...? I think I may have been overwatering.. I’ve been doing that once every two to three days...
Water them daily in the morning . Dont bring them inside as they love rainwater . Feed as directed on the bottle . It is nigh on impossible to overwater tomatoes in pots or grobags so long as there are drainage holes .
@@kenmorley2339 That's what I do, except I am not too good at following directions on bottles. He has got me thinking I water way too much. I might try putting one container on a once a week and another on every other day watering.
@@watermelonlalala If they are in 10 litre pots give each plant around one litre per day . Then feed , as directed , every third day .
Can someone explain why my tomato plant stems turn Woody and whether that’s good or bad thing?
Flo Dabest I have had tomato plants that were very vigorous and the main stem had almost a tree bark look to it... it produced very well and I had no other issues with the yields. If I remember correctly it was a cherry tomato that was about 7 feet tall. Not sure what caused it, at the time I attributed it to the size.
Greene Acres Homestead thank you so much. I haven’t been able to find any information on this and I don’t know the name of it
Wowwww! I have some seedlings that are Taking so much time to grown the real leaves. I think im overwatering... How many times a week one should water the seedlings?
Juan Torm that depends on the soil, humidity, air temp... I would say maybe once a week? One thing the test showed me was to error on the side of less. I found the plants bounced back much quicker and with more resilience if they were lacking water than if they had too much. Also initially keep the temp around 70 when the plants are young, might help. Good luck!
So if the temperature outside is 90 and over, is it better to have it inside? I have a baby one that seems like its not growing quick
JC you may want to put a shade cloth over it at the hottest point of the day if it’s in direct sun.
@@greeneacreshomestead They are in shade. I put fertilizer too. It just seems like as soon as it gets pretty leaves, the leaves start to dry and curl.
JC How often are you watering the plant? Also you may have used too much fertilizer and are burning it.
I still can't tell if mine are over or under watered. The branches are twisting then popping off and leaves are curling up and in. They're also barely growing. What am I doing wrong. It's getting really frustrating and I almost don't want to grow them anymore.
That actually sounds like disease more than over/underwatering
I would agree with sergeant-
This is tomato plant abuse. I will be turning you into to the tomato police so that they can “catch up” with you.
My tomato 🍅 is dying but I put baking soda
What happen when you put baking soda?
I overwater. Crap.
Welcome to the club!
@@greeneacreshomestead Thank you. I’m out in the garden watching it dry. lol Thanks for your channel.