New Question?

Talon1189 · June 16, 2011

I have only 5 tomato plants. 4 are in Earthtainers. I have been spraying Daconil on the plants over the last 2 weeks for PM care for my plants. I figure that spraying "only the new growth" every other day would be a good for disease control with a hand pump sprayer. Last season Septoria Leaf Spot got to many of my plants. Is this a good idea? Thanks for your input

dice · June 17, 2011

You mean if it does not rain and wash the Daconil off of your older
leaves?

tam91 · June 17, 2011

I was wondering about rain. Since it seems to want to rain every other day here lately, I was wondering how effective Daconil would be. Or does one re-apply it more often, like almost every time it rains?

dice · June 17, 2011

I do not use it, so I do not know.

(I dislike spraying tomato plants. I will do it early in the season for mineral
deficiencies, and I will occasionally spray them with neem oil and soap to
repel bugs, but I refuse to spray weekly or more often for a whole season
with anything. "Survival of the fittest unsprayed," is my tomato growing philosophy. I suppose that in some locales, I would have no tomatoes ever
doing this.)

les matzek · June 17, 2011

hi talon,
i was spraying ever other week
with exel lg and then serenade
and then a soil drench with
actinovate but i still lost six of
my tomato plants, it must have
been because of the cold
weather here ??, good luck.

les

b54red · June 19, 2011

Dice, you might get a few cherries down here but not many. Another thing you wouldn't get many of is bell peppers. We have some kind of spot disease that hits them very early and right up til the fall. It is really frustrating picking a nice big bell pepper and not finding a single square inch of it that is fit to eat. I have been spraying weakly with Daconil and the early blight has been minimal this year. I did have to use the bleach spray several times thanks to a bad attack of gray mold. If there was a spray for fusarium I would use it but alas that is the one thing that seems impervious to all recommended treatments so far.

dice · June 19, 2011

I think I if I lived where spraying was the only way to get a harvest,
I would either build a greenhouse, use mosquito netting, and grow
indoors, to keep wind and rain and bugs off of my plants, or install
misters on underground pipe throughout the garden that would spray
everything on timers, so that all I had to do was dump today's solution
into a reservoir once or twice a week (some sprays should not be mixed
with anything else, and one might need to use more than one).

June 16, 2011	#1
Talon1189 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Farmington, Michigan. Zone 5b/6a Posts: 421	New Question? I have only 5 tomato plants. 4 are in Earthtainers. I have been spraying Daconil on the plants over the last 2 weeks for PM care for my plants. I figure that spraying "only the new growth" every other day would be a good for disease control with a hand pump sprayer. Last season Septoria Leaf Spot got to many of my plants. Is this a good idea? Thanks for your input __________________ Always looking for a better way to grow tomatoes ..........

June 17, 2011	#2
dice Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: PNW Posts: 4,743	You mean if it does not rain and wash the Daconil off of your older leaves? __________________ -- alias

June 17, 2011	#3
tam91 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Crystal Lake IL Posts: 2,484	I was wondering about rain. Since it seems to want to rain every other day here lately, I was wondering how effective Daconil would be. Or does one re-apply it more often, like almost every time it rains? __________________ Tracy

June 17, 2011	#4
dice Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: PNW Posts: 4,743	I do not use it, so I do not know. (I dislike spraying tomato plants. I will do it early in the season for mineral deficiencies, and I will occasionally spray them with neem oil and soap to repel bugs, but I refuse to spray weekly or more often for a whole season with anything. "Survival of the fittest unsprayed," is my tomato growing philosophy. I suppose that in some locales, I would have no tomatoes ever doing this.) __________________ -- alias

June 19, 2011	#7
dice Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: PNW Posts: 4,743	I think I if I lived where spraying was the only way to get a harvest, I would either build a greenhouse, use mosquito netting, and grow indoors, to keep wind and rain and bugs off of my plants, or install misters on underground pipe throughout the garden that would spray everything on timers, so that all I had to do was dump today's solution into a reservoir once or twice a week (some sprays should not be mixed with anything else, and one might need to use more than one). __________________ -- alias

June 17, 2011	#5
les matzek Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Landers, CA Posts: 191	hi talon, i was spraying ever other week with exel lg and then serenade and then a soil drench with actinovate but i still lost six of my tomato plants, it must have been because of the cold weather here ??, good luck. les

June 19, 2011	#6
b54red Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Alabama Posts: 7,068	Dice, you might get a few cherries down here but not many. Another thing you wouldn't get many of is bell peppers. We have some kind of spot disease that hits them very early and right up til the fall. It is really frustrating picking a nice big bell pepper and not finding a single square inch of it that is fit to eat. I have been spraying weakly with Daconil and the early blight has been minimal this year. I did have to use the bleach spray several times thanks to a bad attack of gray mold. If there was a spray for fusarium I would use it but alas that is the one thing that seems impervious to all recommended treatments so far.