Both are Punta Banda’s one gets the tomato tone and bone meal (in slide 3) and the other one (that one is my first tomate ever!) doesn’t but they both have this going on. Should I just snip those stems and carry on?
MarieAntsinmypants
Don’t see an issue in the first pic? In the next two it kind of just looks like old leaves, this happens as the plant grows but it’s hard to tell without a pic of the whole plant. Could possible need nitrogen, maybe something more immediately bioavailable than what you are feeding it.
tomatocrazzie
Bonemeal and tomato tone are slow release fertilizers that got them to this point. Now that the plants are fertilizing, you may want to consider regular applications of a water soluable fertilizer with good P and K numbers to carry them through the season.
carlitospig
As your plant produces fruit, it no longer requires the leaf ‘power’ of the leaves under it so they begin to die back like the cotyledons. Your plant will continue growing leaves above the trusses which it’ll use to power the plant.
CitrusBelt
Like tomatocrazzie said — the plants tend to start showing nutrient issues right when they start loading up with fruit, so that’s a good time to start upping the ferts. Something with a good amount of **available** potassium, as well as some **available** nitrogen (also keep an eye on the leaves for a magnesium deficit; that’ll often be the next thing to show). If “organic” is a concern, you’re probably looking at a liquid fert; most “organic” dry stuff will take a long time to break down & have the nutrients actually become available to the plants
Just remove the crappy looking lower leaves, and plan on upping the fertilizer now that they’re fruiting.
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Both are Punta Banda’s one gets the tomato tone and bone meal (in slide 3) and the other one (that one is my first tomate ever!) doesn’t but they both have this going on. Should I just snip those stems and carry on?
Don’t see an issue in the first pic? In the next two it kind of just looks like old leaves, this happens as the plant grows but it’s hard to tell without a pic of the whole plant. Could possible need nitrogen, maybe something more immediately bioavailable than what you are feeding it.
Bonemeal and tomato tone are slow release fertilizers that got them to this point. Now that the plants are fertilizing, you may want to consider regular applications of a water soluable fertilizer with good P and K numbers to carry them through the season.
As your plant produces fruit, it no longer requires the leaf ‘power’ of the leaves under it so they begin to die back like the cotyledons. Your plant will continue growing leaves above the trusses which it’ll use to power the plant.
Like tomatocrazzie said — the plants tend to start showing nutrient issues right when they start loading up with fruit, so that’s a good time to start upping the ferts. Something with a good amount of **available** potassium, as well as some **available** nitrogen (also keep an eye on the leaves for a magnesium deficit; that’ll often be the next thing to show). If “organic” is a concern, you’re probably looking at a liquid fert; most “organic” dry stuff will take a long time to break down & have the nutrients actually become available to the plants
Just remove the crappy looking lower leaves, and plan on upping the fertilizer now that they’re fruiting.