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Monday, September 22, 2025
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Little Ketchup
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Grittyville, WA
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Entry 264 of 269 |
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The 8 lb tomato was grown on the SICK (brown) side of this vine, circled orange. The others (5 lb and 6+ lb?) I just picked were off this rotted out stump plant. The plants can have some rot and still produce decent tomatoes. But the more diseased the plant is, its harder and harder to tell what the plant actually needs, nutrition wise.
I kept trying to figure out the mineral issues... but this is impossible to figure out when the xylem/phloem is infected the plant will never appear totally healthy. But maybe I was doing a decent job of guessing and thus got the best result I could have on a sick plant.
Don't know the source of the disease. I thought it was contaminated alfalfa but I had it last year too so it wasn't necessarily from this year's alfalfa compost. The good news, if there is any, is that my horrible litttle 8.68 (one that I wanted so badly to remove earlier this year) might be one of the only disease free plants. It might have some resistance. Its weird how often I could say to my tomato seedlings: "The one who is least among you shall be the greatest." Thats Luke 9:48.
Remaining photo: hands finally compare
favorably to Rick's. I'm back on track to catch him next year. Maybe.
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