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Re: Stan's hot tomato

I sometimes get a little purple in the leaves if I water too much.  I'm
often gone for a week at a time and so I have to leave a lot of water in
the tray so the lil' fellas don't dry out, but it interferes with their
nutrient uptake.  It usually doesn't seem to have a long term effect,
but I really don't have a set of control plants to compare with.

Steve  (Maritime...)


Michael D. Cook wrote:
> 
> At 07:37 AM 3/27/98 -0600, you wrote:
> >     However, they didn't grow hardly at all since I originally put them
> >out there, and their leaves are turning purple.
> 
> Stan, when tomato leaves turn purple (at least on the undersides) they are
> suffering a nutrient deficiency.  A shot of weak liquid fertilizer should
> fix it.
> 
> I used peat pots to start tomatoes and peppers one year, and every single
> seedling suffered from nutrient deficiency.  I have never had that problem
> with seedlings in plastic pots.  Does the peat pot have anything to so with
> it?  What with the mold, the too soggy/rapidly dessicated/no happy medium
> quality, and the impenetrable walls that were supposed to give way to
> roots, I will never use those pots again.
> 
> Sheila Smith
> mikecook@pipeline.com
> Z 5/6
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