Tomatoes don’t like to be overfertilized. We will discuss a critical mistake many gardeners make when fertilizing their plants.
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As a first time gardener, I greatly appreciate all the wisdom you share with everyone!!! I'm learning so much! THANIK YOU!
This year, some of my garlic had thick stalks and so I thought big bulbs, well some were nice and large but others were smaller compared to the stalk thickness. I did notice that those that were smaller did seem to come from one main part of that patch.
Why is ever9ne so overthink8ng this? Food….appropriate to it cycle, water, light. There isn't a "one fix".
We here in N.J. have had a terrible spring. Lot's of rain and cold temps almost the spring that wasn't. That said, I'll probably use some bone meal and green sand to fertilize along with a low NPK liquid fertilizer. I learned to back off the nitrogen when the plant is about 4' tall. Thanks Luke. 👍
I have used fish emulsion for years and have great harvests
Last year I tried to save money on potting soil- I added broken up sticks and leaves and grass, didn’t add fertilizer. Most of the plants except a few did well. My tomatoes were terrible. I eventually bought fertilizer but it was too late.
This year I bought extra potting soil and added fertilizer for each plant (hollytone from Costco) and I already have blooms on my tomato plants and my plants are doing amazing. Don’t try and be cheap when it comes to gardening get the fertilizer!
This vid got me right on time! I was about to go out there and zap my tomatoes again. Thanks Luke!
Fruits are the plants form of breeding. Species that suffer breed more, even with humanity as life expectancy grew our birth rate deminished. So, make your fruiting plants suffer a little so they produce more.
Been gardening since the 60s and I've never used commercial fertilizer. I use compost covered with soggy wood shavings alongside the veggie rows. Works great except this year it's still too cold and cloudy to get much growth, however there's still 4 more months to go.
This is such an unstructured video. Not very informative at all.
Watch the bottom leaves turning yellow too. Nitrogen is a mobile nutrient which means the plant can "steal" the nitrogen for new growth from the older leaves.
As you were talking about Trifecta, all I could think of was Frank's Redhot, "We put that s**t on everything 😂
Cutting off nitrogen after the plant reaches maturity is a light bulb event. that may explain why some of my tomatoes are 9' tall! So, yes, I did learn something. thank you!
Luke you mentioned pot ash, gypsum, bone meal & calcium.
😢 I didn't understand this.
How much of each one of these do I use per plant? Do I use all 4 of them, or just one or just two? Which two do I use? Lost me.😊
Thank you! I always watch videos of fertilizing and they never mention when to stop! I’m new gardener. Maybe my 3 rd year and I’m still learning each time. Super resourceful vids you do.!
Since I planted my tomatoes, do I still want to top dress the tomatoes with Trifecta, do I still want to top feed? They were planted in April and had planted them with Trifecta. I do spray them every 2-3 weeks of Neptune's Harvest Tomato and Vegetable.
I bought your fertilizer last year and I know very little about fertilizer. I'm glad you said not to use after August and that makes total sense. Is there anything I shouldn't use it on? I'm thinking I should put some around my peppers, my tomatoes, but didn't know when it was too late to add with my potatoes, and if I should put it around my onions and beets?
What about using weeds, comfrey, stinging nettle fertilizers that have been in water buckets for 2 weeks?
How much is too much? How many times can you use it?
Yes it helped so I was will not add any more nitrogen , I will add bone meal now
I'm in Canada and can't get Trifecta …..can I use 12-16-12 fertilizer?
Very helpful thankyou
I grow giant tomatoes for competition and Luke is spot on accurate with the fertilizer recommendations
Dude I literally just got in from fertilizing my tomatoes… -_-
It's the first application of fertilizer this season, other than the fertilizer that I mixed into the soil before planting! But I'm not sure how much of that fertilizer actually made it into the plants since I'm a noob and mixed all my soil a few months too early.
What do you think about coffee grounds and egg shells?
Worm castings
Only… schmidt vegg food…fertilizer
Canada😮❤
Not able to order cause of tarrifs😢
Can I use water from potatoes and the water from where I've boiled my eggshell
Or too much water
Very informative – thanks. But does this rule apply also to container planting – i.e. in grow bags?
this year I planted in the ground and in grow bags. I've watched other videos where they recommend fertilize twice a month, when planting in grow bags, maybe more depending on how much rain or watering you get.
Last year I didn't, and got poor results as I didn't fertilize, and over watered, and planted in too small of bags. This year I am using 15 gallon bags and fertilizing and doing great. My plants haven't reached the 4 4.5 ' height yet…..
The organic fertilizer I am using is 3-4-4 with added bone meal, and I also water with miracle gro plant food and fish emulsion.
Right now my grow bag tomatoes are in the blossoming stage, with some tomatoes setting on, and are about 3'+ high………..
I live around Sacramento California so we get hot windy dry summers……
Thanks for your videos…
Joe
I would have bought trifecta from you but your shipping was too high and slow. Dr Earth is cheaper, just as good if not better ,imo, free shipping and arrived the next day. Sorry, competition sucks, keep up the good work. I do value your experience and growing advice however. Thanks.
Big help, thanks!
So do you fertilize at time of planting? Or wait a couple weeks to top dress?
I'm in MI as well and we've had a cooler spring. My tomatoes are about where Lukes are. I'm experimenting with a fertilizer regimen something like this video. For my root plants I planted bone meal in the holes. I also spread out blood meal. These are slower acting. My corn emerged and it seemed yellow to me. I then started spraying fish emulsion every week or so till these young plants can get their roots under them. Everything is green and looks better than any garden from previous years. Gonna give everything some bone meal once they get more mature and back off the fish. I like to experiment. This garden has come a long way!
I add a 1/4 cup of trifecta and 1/4 of homegrown egg shells and 2 tums tablets in the hole and plant my tomato plant on top of that. Been doing it that way for years with really good results.
Luke’s setup is uber perfect! He could probably not fertilize at all and still get mammoth production. I grew a tomato one time. Super small one too. It told me “ bro, I’d be like 30 times bigger if Luke grew me”
trifecta+ is a very good fertilizer. my burpee hybrid cantaloupes taste a lot better when i use it.(and other plants too) ive been growing these cantaloupes for 30+ years
Luke…what do you think of homemade seaweed /kelp tea as fertilizer?