Fertilization tips to get more production out of peppers, tomato, and eggplant production. Nitrogen is important at the beginning for plant growth. However, once these crops start flowering, it is time to switch to fertilizers heavier in phosphorus and potassium which support flowering and fruit development.
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here’s my fertilization technique to help you get more peppers tomatoes and eggplants nitrogen is important at the beginning stages of the development and growth of the plant and helping the leaves be nice and green but too much nitrogen means the plant will dedicate most of its energy to producing lots of leafy greens instead of flowers and fruit as soon as your plants start flowering you need to stop with all the nitrogen fertilizer if you’re looking for a fertilizer that has more phosphorus and potassium compared to nitrogen at the beginning of its growth I like to use a tomato specific fertilizer like espoma brand tomato tone but once it starts flowering and all of that I switched to something that focuses more on the potassium and phosphorus like this tiger bloom right here this is a liquid fertilizer I feed it to my tomatoes about once a week there are tons of other fertilizers that you can find that have higher potassium and phosphorus numbers than the nitrogen
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I'm so glad you did this one! Thanks!
How did you get all this knowledge?
My plants are 4 months old when I'm planting them now because my season is so short. Some already have little tomatoes and peppers on them. I'm mixing in bone meal with the worm compost and soil I set the plants in. Maybe next year I'll mix in wood ashes for potassium.
Why do you wait until bloom to change to phosphorus? The plant will change to making flowers if ready. U can push it.
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Do you use water soluble synthetics? I’ve been going back and forth on whether or not I want to switch to become 100% organic or not. Unfortunately my indeterminate tomato bed I used a bunch of cheap “garden soil” bc I didn’t quite know what I was doing yet, and it seems like the entire thing is filled with sawdust, really really finely ground up wood chips lol. So I think I actually should have been fertilizing my tomatoes even more than I have been since I doubt the soil is very nutritious.
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If and when I use a liquid fertilizer it’s Down to Earth . I use their 5% calcium liquid to ward off blossom end rot on my tomatoes
I used to use tiger bloom on cannabis, it's nice.
I've been ganja free for two years now though!
Awesome video. Can you do a video about your fertilizer injector?
So when first plants tomatoes… do you just fertilize with tomato tone once a week
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FoxFarm nutrients is ok for synthetic nutrients. I prefer an organic water soluble nutrients like Advanced Nutrients or Roots Organic . I only use this when transplanting or the plants needs a fast acting nutrient, otherwise is granular organic fertilizer. One or twice a month. Liquid nutrients get flushed out every watering or when it rains
Would be nice to try this by giving nitrogen all along the fruiting vs the phosphorus and potassium to the same variety of tomate on the same soil and conditions whether soil or container to see if this theory works and do it with 3-4 sample plants of each of the 2 fertilizing categories in case one dies or to make sure results are repeatable. Using compost extract for old grown forest floor by squeezing the fistful in a bucket of rain or filtered watere without fertilizer can improve the plants a lot as I’ve seen so far but still will try to the fruiting by appliying once a month or so because I’ve dealt with basil and a conifer as testimonials but haven’t measured doing it with tomatoes to see what’s best
Thank you
I think all this "gardener" you tubers just watch other you tubers and just repeat the same exact thing.
Which fertilizer do you use for nitrogen?
https://youtu.be/kl3xtUSzXOw?si=qwCTRZdnTvpZFuFq
I've got a 6-8-12 fertilizer. Tomatoes are flowering. Will that do or should there be no nitrogen at all?
Wow!! Please never wear silly hats.
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Hi there, i bought hi yield blood & bone meal mix.. its a 2 in 1.. i have spent daysss trying to figure out how to use it for my tomatoes.. i just learned it should be bought separately but i have it now & dont want it to go to waste. I bought it along side of Jobes vegetable & tomato fertilizer.. i feel like i messed up and wasted money.. any suggestions?
I have one that's the same brand, its called grow big. Should i use it on early vegetative growth?
You're killing your soil with that EXTREMELY high salt based "tiger bloom" fox farm fertilizer…that is one of the highest EC ferts I've tested when professionally growing. The build up with that fertilizer quickly locks out other nutrients if not flushed with yucca every month…