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Plant rotted (fungus) during long shipping. Help
▲ 2 r/strawberry

Plant rotted (fungus) during long shipping. Help

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What it looks like after trimming excess rotted leaves. That's how it looks like after 2 days.

So I bought some exotic strawberries that took way too long on shipping and they are rotted pretty bad. So it got quite a bit of mold.

So far:

  1. I cut off damage/rotted leaves. Thrashed dead crowns.
  2. I spray it with copper fungicide on whole plant, left it for 20mins. Then I rinsed it with water so it doesn't leave residue.
  3. then repotted in the cardboard as a quarantine kinda. stop spread fungi? They seem okay and might survive.

Right now am thinking since it has stabilize (last photo looks like it got life in them). I am planning to

  1. uproot them and move them again to 18oz cups to start rooting and recover. Before actually putting them into my 2gallon pots.
  2. uprooting allows me to inspect them again and trim off excess molded roots, check for any mold left. Spreading or future issues?
  3. Just read I can do 1:3 ratio of hydrogen peroxide to treat rotted roots.

Is this a good idea? Should I just trashed them all before they spread to my nice tomato garden?

Any help/suggestion would be much appreciated it!

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u/Cow_cat11 — 5 days ago
▲ 110 r/tomatoes

My apartment management doesn't appreciate my tomato plants on the balcony 😂. Balcony grower.

They sent out a mass email warning that nothing that is not "outdoor" is allowed on the balcony. I know plants are outdoor for sure and not against the lease😂.

All are fruiting nicely (NC 8a).

2x Sun golds: I bought 3 from a hippie on fb (as shown on last pic, I culled 1 and kept 2) (around 14-18inches, I trenched most of the long stem). No one sells sun golds around here. They turn out alright even tho they came unhealthy and very skinny stem. Tho they are still skinny compare to others but the upper stems are very thick. Leaves are not that spread out, mostly growing on one direction for some reason. ~14+tomato per cluster.

1x Super sweet 100: Home depot (10 inches). The best and most prolific plant. Leaves are in all direction getting best of sun light. Stem from base to top is thick! ~20 tomato per cluster.

1x Black cherry: Home depot (6 inches). I thought this seedling was the best even tho it was short, thick stem, rigid green leaves. Turns out I think this seedling has some kind of issues, the rigid looking leaves kept it's profile even tho it is ~2.5 ft tall now. New leaves curls badly during the night (temp 55-60f). I should have picked something regular like super 100 but that thick stem and dark green leaves made me think it was good. The plant is very hard and feels like it is in a defense mechanism all the time if that makes any sense. ~14 tomato per cluster.

Not sure when they will ripe, first time growing and on a balcony with ~6-7hrs of sunlight.

Potting mix is very expensive! 16-18 a bag and doesn't fill a 15gallon pot. I cheap out and fill about 65% full. Fert and other random stuff add up! Currently easy $200+ on the low estimate. BUT very happy 😂

u/Cow_cat11 — 10 days ago
▲ 1 r/tomatoes

I got these dark green or black spots on top part of my stem and leaves. Is this 1. Insects 2. Humidity growth 3. Defense mechanism because of the wire ties?

For context it's only on the top sprouts and it's rough and hard when I scrape it. 3 out of 4 tomato plants have spots. The one plant that doesn't have spots was never tied. It was rainy for like 3 days but it's not humid at all in charlotte 20 to 30 humidity. Anyone have any idea?

u/Cow_cat11 — 21 days ago