Sick Plants - With Pictures.

[SarahSarah]

Any ideas how I can help these guys?


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The tomatoes have curling leaves. I've tried giving them a bit of fertilizer, but they didn't perk up.


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I mentioned these guys in another thread previously. These haven't started rotting yet, but I plucked them because all the other ones that rotted out looked like this. Any idea what is causing it?

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These beans look not healthy. Also put some fertilizer in here and nothing changed.

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These are the sickest of the sick. Should I just toss these guys or are they savable?

THANK YOU!!
Sarah

[hit or miss]

What did you use for soil? I've always treated yellow plants as nitrogen deficient. What fertilizer are you using, 0-0-0 would be the formula we're looking for but with different numbers. Are they waterlogged? How often do you water?

I hate answering questions with more question but we need more info.

[SarahSarah]

I used a potting soil called "Bumper Crop" that I bought from East Bay Nursery.

The fertilizer that I used is this brand.
https://osh.shoplocal.com/osh/Default.aspx?action=detail&storeid=2432387&rapid=0&listingid=-2086822880&offerid=
I don't have the bag because a friend is using it on her garden right now. I should have it back later today.

The water the plants once daily. They are on a drip sprinkler system that runs for about 15 minutes.


I should have included this all in the original post Sorry

[hit or miss]

Thanks for the added info. Make sure the fertilizer has a good amount of P, that's the second number. It is affecting such a variety of plants I can't imagine it being a disease. Check very closely for insects on all plants. Right now, I'd recommend waiting it out and see what happens if no insects pests are found.

The squash is probably a pollination problem. Use the search function to learn how to help them along. I personally don't worry too much about it as they outgrow that problem quick enough.

Anybody else have any input? Let me know if I'm off base on this!

[gixxerific]

If it were me I would leave the squash alone till something happens. You never know if it will come back or not unless you give it time. To me they don't look all that bad but the pic is pretty small.

[DoubleDogFarm]

Bumper Crop® Organic Soil Amendment - A blend of composted fir bark, rice hulls and forest humus fortified with 15% chicken manure, worm castings, bat guano, kelp meal and beneficial mycorrhizae fungi. pH balanced with dolomite and oyster shell lime. An all purpose planting and garden soil amendment. Excels as a nutrient-rich top dressing and mulch.

15 minutes seems to long for potted plants. What size emitters Are these pots part of a larger system We always keep container plants on their own zone.

Your fertilizer maybe a slow release type.

[applestar]

I love Bumper Crop, but as DD quoted, it's not soil but soil AMENDMENT and will not support plant growth by itself. In fact this is the very ingredient for my FAILED potting mix this spring which was 50% Bumper Crop and 50% all purpose sand. That tells me that it is not the same as my own home made compost at all, which CAN be mixed in the same ratio with sand for good growth. I also had the pale chartreuse foliage color.

For a quick first aid, try fish fertilizer -- I used Neptunes Harvest hydrolyzed fish. You could also try top dressing with worm casting as my plants started to show signs of recovery when placed directly on the ground and earthworms moved in. But you'll need to repot them as soon as possible. You can use the same mix they're growing in but add at least 1/2~2/3 by volume some inexpensive potting soil. Another option is to repot in Bumper Crop's sister product GARDENER'S GOLD which is their premium potting soil, and place that carries Bumper Crop probably sells it as well. I'm in love with this potting soil and have been using it when I don't have enough finished compost on hand to make my own mix.

Ugh. On reviewing your photos I see your plants are pretty big already and not easy to repot. I don't have enough container growing experience of vegs to tell you the best way to handle this. May be dig out vertical shafts of existing potting medium along the container wall with a trowel and replace with good potting soil? ( Could that be done with out overly damaging the roots?)