I could just cry! My indoor cherry tomato plant is dying right now, as I sit here.

pengillian101

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Wed Mar-03-10 11:26 PM
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I could just cry! My indoor cherry tomato plant is dying right now, as I sit here.

Honestly I am just sick about this. I was so happy to have some living thing actually growing indoors in the dead of Minnesota winter, and now it's just curling up and dying---wah! Wonder what's wrong? The stalk has bumps on on it and I have never seen that before.

Seriously - it is deteriorating by the minute.

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Zoigal

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Thu Mar-04-10 02:12 AM
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1. Have you considered repotting it? Maybe it has run out of nutrients..z

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pengillian101

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Thu Mar-04-10 02:55 AM
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2. Thanks for your reply.

I am using an Aerogarden system that is foolproof (?) a light reminds you for that - every two weeks you add it. It was just today that things went sour.

It's maybe a fungus or a flying insect who just showed up and is buzzing around. But I think the light killed that flying insect. It's gone now.

I'll just go and :cry: in my pillow, now that it's so late.

Happy gardening to all!

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LiberalEsto

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Thu Mar-04-10 11:17 AM
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3. One suggestion

Take it out and swish the entire plant in lukewarm water with a spoonful of mild dish detergent for 30 seconds or so. Then gently rinse in a container of lukewarm water and put it back in it's place.
This sometimes helps.

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pengillian101

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Sat Mar-06-10 02:15 AM
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4. Thank you so much.

I'll try that.

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Zoigal

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Sun Mar-07-10 11:05 PM
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5. So, is your cherry tomato plant feeling any better?...z

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ConcernedCanuk

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Wed Mar-10-10 07:05 PM
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6. I'm assuming they are getting lots of sunlight - - so

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try this

eggshells poked about 1/2 inch into the soil

wood-ash spread around the base about 3" around - 1/4" thick

water twice daily(rainwater preferred) replace wood-ash when not visible(about every 4 days) and add more eggshells (about 3 eggs worth) every week

worked for me

by the way

THAT'S ONE PLANT that you are looking at growing through the roof

oh - watering? read up on mixing urine with water for plants - 10% is safe for anything - think nitrogen

Being a male, and a beer drinker, well - you figure it out :silly:

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No purchased fertilizers or pesticides were used

I got over 500 cherry toms off that one plant/tree!

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tjwash

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Sun Apr-04-10 10:12 AM
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10. Nice...I just got my roma-seeds out from my little mini-greenhouse into the main garden.

Edited on Sun Apr-04-10 10:13 AM by tjwash

Now that the nights are consistently above 50 degrees here, its safe to plant them outside. Really looking forward to the canning that's to come in July.

And ash work wonders...I have 2 cords from the fireplace spread over the garden as well. Also...a something people don't realize about eggshells, is, in addition to providing calcium (that gets rid of that nasty bottom-rot in tomatoes), is that they keep the snails down as well. Snails can't crawl over the sharp edges of the eggshells.

Problem is...the dog LOVES her some eggshells when I spread them around in the garden.

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pscot

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Tue Mar-23-10 11:40 AM
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7. Those look like root nodes

I think you are probably over watering. The plant is trying to compensate by putting out more roots. Let it dry out some and see if that helps.

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kurtzapril4

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Sat Apr-03-10 01:50 PM
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8. Those bumps are called

internodal, or adventitious root origins. Meaning, if you sunk the the stem into the soil up the the first set of leaves, roots would grow out of those bumps.

Also, tomatoes can be grown in water. That's where we get all those yucky mid-winter tomatoes from..hydroponic farms.

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tjwash

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Sun Apr-04-10 10:01 AM
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9. Too much water...you have root bumps.

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