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How much lime to treat blossom end rot?
I don't know much about much... but I've been reading a lot,
and someone correct me if I'm wrong. For a long time I've known that certain vitamins are needed to make other minerals and vitamins work. I'm going off on a branch into the human body now, but bear with me... In the human body, there's a B vitamin called PABA, which is something like para-amino-benzoic-acid (or somesuch), and it prevents a head of hair from turning gray. One lady I was doing some work for, indicated that everyone in her family had gray hair, yet she had very beautiful dark brown hair that went down to her waste. She indicated that PABA helps in preventing gray hair, but she said, that PABA alone won't work, as it must be taken with other B vitamins (B6 and B12 ?). I just did a search on the Internet for these words: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22gray+hair%22+PABA and lo and behold, it's all over the Internet. I was told this by a lady in or about 1994. And now back to plants... I've been reading that in order for Calcium to be absorbed, a plant needs magnesium as well. Epson salt is a recognized source of magnesium... and I've been messing with some tomato plants for the last three months but they all seem to be going wacky on me. They started off great though using epson salt sprayed on the plant and in the soil and using calcium tablets. And they've been hit by cabbage worms and couple other things. I left for a week and when I came back all their leaves had turned brown. I chopped off the leaves and some of their stems are turning brown, in fact I chopped off some stems as well. Now some leaves are growing back and they are hanging in there. Some of my problems are that one particular tomato plant is in full sun (90 degree F temps +) 9 hours (++) each day, so it needs watering a couple times a day. Even when the plant is in the shade at later parts of the day, it's getting a lot of sun because the sun is reflecting off of white stepping stones. It's been a month since I've given the plant calcium and epson salt and it's growing very very slowly now. I don't know if it has blossom end rot or not. The leaves are coming in very green, but some of the stems are turning brown around the very ends of the tips. It did appear that the epson salt and calcium tablets were working but there's some other things going on and I do plan on keeping this tomato plant going, but I've reached a point that has got me stumped. I'm currently testing out some 1-2-1 fertilizer with trace amounts of other minerals, and have stopped with the calcium and epson salt. -- Jim Carlock http://www.votetoimpeach.org/ Post replies to the newsgroup. |
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