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Ailsa Craig and location Kent England.
I have a couple of dozen plants in an outside plot and they are doing very well. An overflow I planted in a dozen large clay pots. Almost every fruit is suffering from a split skin. I am obviously doing something wrong. What is it? Alistair |
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Alistair Macdonald wrote:
Ailsa Craig and location Kent England. I have a couple of dozen plants in an outside plot and they are doing very well. An overflow I planted in a dozen large clay pots. Almost every fruit is suffering from a split skin. I am obviously doing something wrong. What is it? Alistair Might be over watering. |
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On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 11:53:50 +0100, "Alistair Macdonald"
wrote: Ailsa Craig and location Kent England. I have a couple of dozen plants in an outside plot and they are doing very well. An overflow I planted in a dozen large clay pots. Almost every fruit is suffering from a split skin. I am obviously doing something wrong. What is it? Alistair Uneven watering. |
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Phisherman wrote:
On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 11:53:50 +0100, "Alistair Macdonald" wrote: Ailsa Craig and location Kent England. I have a couple of dozen plants in an outside plot and they are doing very well. An overflow I planted in a dozen large clay pots. Almost every fruit is suffering from a split skin. I am obviously doing something wrong. What is it? Alistair Uneven watering. Uneven soil moisture is the reason I've always read too. Clay pots would only exacerbate the problem -- they are great for cacti and other succulent plants which want to dry out completely between waterings but this would be the worst possible thing with tomatoes. -- John McGaw [Knoxville, TN, USA] http://johnmcgaw.com |
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On Jul 26, 6:53 am, "Alistair Macdonald"
wrote: Ailsa Craig and location Kent England. I have a couple of dozen plants in an outside plot and they are doing very well. An overflow I planted in a dozen large clay pots. Almost every fruit is suffering from a split skin. I am obviously doing something wrong. What is it? Alistair I have read that an abundance of sun combined with heavy watering will do that. Chris |
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"Chris" wrote in message ... On Jul 26, 6:53 am, "Alistair Macdonald" wrote: Ailsa Craig and location Kent England. I have a couple of dozen plants in an outside plot and they are doing very well. An overflow I planted in a dozen large clay pots. Almost every fruit is suffering from a split skin. I am obviously doing something wrong. What is it? Alistair I have read that an abundance of sun combined with heavy watering will do that. Chris A good rain in the middle of summer does it also if the plants aren't used to that much water. In the case of the OP, a heavier then usual watering is all it takes. |
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On Jul 26, 11:11*am, "Zootal" wrote:
"Chris" wrote in message ... On Jul 26, 6:53 am, "Alistair Macdonald" wrote: Ailsa Craig and location Kent England. I have a couple of dozen plants in an outside plot and they are doing very well. An overflow I planted in a dozen large clay pots. Almost every fruit is suffering from a split skin. I am obviously doing something wrong. What is it? Alistair I have read that an abundance of sun combined with heavy watering will do that. Chris A good rain in the middle of summer does it also if the plants aren't used to that much water. In the case of the OP, a heavier then usual watering is all it takes.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - well, considering they're living in Kent, England, and it rains a lot in England, and yes, clay could affect the plants and fruit (but clay dries out better whereas plastic pots don't and would have caused a whole different batch of problems, cracking is natural, doesn't affect the taste of the fruit. I just successfully moved a huge GROWN vine of heirloom potato leafed tomato, it was loaded with unproductive flowers over to the bed where I had the rest of the tomato's planted that are doing just fine. Nasturtiums at the feet, radishes planted on outskirts, and harvested already, rhubarb a few feet away, two cow horn peppers at the feet along with late planted sweet bell pepper plants (we'll see if they set any fruit). Harvesting assorted tomato's that have cracked skin and these are in soil. It's just moisture and heat and sunshine that does it. no worries. don't over water them if you have dry spells, yes, clay pots dry out quicker, but I like clay better than plastic. having said that, I've grown successfully tomato's in five gallon buckets for years because of lack of a good place to put the plants in the ground..............(and only bright sunny spot with eight hours of sunshine was on the deck) Here's another one........I just found out that blossom end rot is unavoidable, and if you wanted to, you could eat the undamaged area of tomato. Oh, another little tip, that would help regardless (not cracking, nor blossom rot) water tomato's and peppers with weak solution of Epsom salts in two gallons of water (about 1/4 cup to two gallons of water) they apparently love it.......... maddie gardening now in the city, in real soil, in a "green bowl" surrounded by the Cherokee National Forest and the Appalachian mountains in Eastern Tennessee (closer now to North Carolina and Virginia than ever before) zone 7b, Sunset zone (as far as I know) 36........MUCH warmer |
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Thanks all. I am much more knowledgeable now than I was before I started
this thread. In fact I feel I could write a book on the subject, if copyright is not registered! "Alistair Macdonald" wrote in message ... Ailsa Craig and location Kent England. I have a couple of dozen plants in an outside plot and they are doing very well. An overflow I planted in a dozen large clay pots. Almost every fruit is suffering from a split skin. I am obviously doing something wrong. What is it? Alistair |
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