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- From: "Marlin & Christine Burkholder" <burkholders AT glenecofarm.com>
- To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: [Market-farming] Tomato transplant disaster!
- Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 05:26:59 -0400
I am having what amounts to a major disaster in my high tunnel planted tomatoes this spring! I am having die off of plants transplanted three weeks to a month ago. Inspection of the roots reveals that about an inch of stem below the soil line has begun rotting and collapsing causing sudden death of the plant. I would estimate that I have lost upwards of 1/3rd of my plants in one house and it looks like I am going to lose more. I posted here one day last week and several responded that it is damping off. The damp off I am familiar with happens in the greenhouse soon after young plants have come up. I don't think you would see damp off of 18 inch to two foot tall plants, some of which had tomatoes on approaching the size of golf balls. I have heard of warnings about putting fertilizer too close to stems at transplanting. I had put about two tablespoons of "Plant Tone" (an all organic product) mixed in the soil around the top of the roots at transplanting. I have done this for years and never had trouble. Once about 15 years ago I had a similar problem when I transplanted tomatoes through plastic mulch into ground that had one foot tall red clover plowed down about a week or two before. I figured that that was triggered by too much bacterial activity in the soil breaking down the clover and also attacking the tomatoes. The soil in one high tunnel had been amended, tilled, and plastic mulched last fall and did not have an excess of freshly decomposing organic matter in the root zone. The other high tunnel had not been mulched and was planted to over wintered spinach last fall and it had lettuce plugged into it in very early spring. I had seen about 5% die off of lettuce soon after transplanting to some similar type of root rot but it was nothing to be alarmed about. There is some tomato loss in that house but not nearly as bad as in the plastic mulched one. |
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Carla Maness, 05/12/2012
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Re: [Market-farming] Flower Bouquets,
idyllwild farm, 05/12/2012
- Re: [Market-farming] Flower Bouquets, Carla Maness, 05/12/2012
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Re: [Market-farming] Flower Bouquets,
Todd Lister, 05/12/2012
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Re: [Market-farming] Flower Bouquets,
Carla Maness, 05/12/2012
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- Re: [Market-farming] Flower Bouquets, Carla Maness, 05/12/2012
- Re: [Market-farming] Flower Bouquets, Carla Maness, 05/19/2012
- [Market-farming] Tomato transplant disaster!, Marlin & Christine Burkholder, 05/20/2012
- Re: [Market-farming] Tomato transplant disaster!, idyllwild farm, 05/20/2012
- Re: [Market-farming] Tomato transplant disaster!, Road's End Farm, 05/20/2012
- Re: [Market-farming] Tomato transplant disaster!, MAsteveINE, 05/20/2012
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Re: [Market-farming] Flower Bouquets,
Carla Maness, 05/12/2012
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Re: [Market-farming] Flower Bouquets,
idyllwild farm, 05/12/2012
- Re: [Market-farming] Flower Bouquets, Todd Lister, 05/12/2012
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