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How I feel about AI......

Nancy Reading wrote:It's late in the season, I suspect magnesium deficiency.

Do you intend to keep the tomatoes going much longer? A dose of Epsom salts is the quickest/available source for a pick you up. If the frosts are due soon I wouldn't (personally) bother as the plants will die then anyway.

I do plan on keeping them until they croak. We have below freezing temps every night, but the greenhouse is staying pretty warm, so the tomatoes and a couple of holdout peppers are still hanging in there.
My wife came home today with a quart bag of Epsom salt from one of her yoga students who has a fabulous garden. I'll see her tonight and ask how to apply it. If you have any suggested methods, I'm all ears.

May Lotito wrote:Do they look like these:https://permies.com/t/165424/Ack-brandywines-dragon-scales
How about the newer growth? Are leaves and flower clusters getting smaller with uneven fruit maturity within a cluster?

Yes! That's exactly what they look like. I'll go out tomorrow and cut all the affected stems & leaves off.

Anne Miller wrote:I would try this:

1 gal water, 1 T dish soap, 1 T baking soda.

I put it in a spray bottle to make applying it easy.

Some recipes call for adding oil. I have never found a need for the oil.

What ailment is this supposed to treat?

C. Letellier wrote:spotted wilt virus?

go to the second picture down.spotted wilt

It does look very similar, but the articles did not have any treatment ideas or plans.

Nancy Reading wrote:It's late in the season, I suspect magnesium deficiency.

Do you intend to keep the tomatoes going much longer? A dose of Epsom salts is the quickest/available source for a pick you up. If the frosts are due soon I wouldn't (personally) bother as the plants will die then anyway.

These are all inside the greenhouse and most of them are heavy with fruit. I still haven't had that rush of harvest one would expect by this late in the season.
So, I was expecting to keep them going for a few more weeks.
I'll see if we have any Epsom salt.

I never did update this during the year, and the truth be told, I kind of forgot to take many pics along the way.
This building worked very well for growing stuff. Almost too well actually. The tomatoes grew completely out of my control.
I had poor luck with beans and most of the squash, but I put that down to poor planning on my part.

Here we are in late October.

Okay hivemind.
What is this stuff on my tomato leaves?

Some of it is purple on very green leaves.



Some of it is getting purple on yellowing leaves

I know I have been away for a while, but life has been very busy since I retired from the rat race.
I'm not sure where this post should go, but the flowers forum seemed like the right spot. My wife and I just got back from a European vacation and while we were in Paris, we decided to go see Monet's house and gardens.
Here are a few of the pics I took while in the garden. It was surprisingly vibrant for October.







To get an idea of the size of this garden (it's one of many) this is halfway down one of probably a dozen paths.



The arbor trellises were everywhere



It was as thick as thieves in there.









There was a small stream running through one area and along one side. It ended at a beautiful lily pond.



This was one of the highlights in a two-week trip across Europe.

Josh Diehl wrote:

You could look into a "soft start" device for your HVAC, which will ramp up the current instead of the huge inrush.  Compressors are some of the most notorious inverter-breakers.

Any suggestions or recommendations for what soft-start unit to buy?
Anyone else out there have this issue and solve it with a soft-start module?