From

Location

Message

Date Posted

Yukon, Canada

Got a hot tip from someone today. They run lamp wick from a bucket with water/fertilizer solution in it, to their tomatoes. They make a slit in the stem near the ground and place the wick in it and wrap cheese cloth around to keep it in place. Eventually the plant grows around the wick. They say they grow titanic tomatoes this way and that it also works on pumpkins. Anybody heard of this? Or tried it?

6/28/2002 7:20:41 PM

Liverpool , England

Yo Yukon,
Tried it..load of crap.

Alun

6/28/2002 8:30:30 PM

Sask, Canada

This is one of those too good to be true methods, any type of invention like this or slitting of punkin vines and injecting it with milk is exactly like Alun says "it's a load of crap." and only does more harm and no good to your plants.

Stick with the proven methods of good soil, good care and good luck.

TTYL
Ernie
Giant Veggies
Giant Tomato Growing Website
http://www.members.shaw.ca/giantveggies/

6/28/2002 8:44:12 PM

Cornwall UK.(50N 5W)300ft.

I can remember my Dad telling me he used to do that with sugar/water on Marrows.That must have been about 50 years ago so its a real OLD wives tale lol.

6/29/2002 1:34:26 AM

Liverpool , England

Yo Yukon,
When a plant takes in water and nutrients it takes them in as ions which are pure and sterilised. Now if you use the wick method you are putting in water and feed that by-passes the plants natural process. This water and feed are not sterilised and contain microbes which will attack the sugars that make up the fruit..it then rots away. I know..I've tried everything you'll ever hear about..only feeding the plant through the roots or foliage will work. But if you do find anything that works..there are thousands of us out there who would be intested.


Alun

6/29/2002 8:28:59 PM

Yukon, Canada

Thanks a lot everybody!

6/29/2002 11:23:29 PM