I haven’t been to the lakefront in years, plus I don’t know where they shoot off the fireworks from. Any tips would be so helpful!
I’m so in love with the fancy needlepoint patterns I see with all those crazy Rhodes types stitches, but dang that canvas is so expensive. Might invest in a single sheet of it one day, but I’m not there yet.
Poll!
I am realizing as the flat mites tear through my collection that I need to be snapping pics before I inevitably paint this whole thing is sulfur and ruin the farina. I pulled one pup stem off this weekend that I think had the mites. Moral of the story: don’t ever get mites.
These are my grandma’s little plants, I’m not a tomato grower myself. Outside only plants, SE Louisiana zone 9a. She’s gotten these grocery store babies for the last few years and they make tomatoes like crazy, but their leaves start looking like this after a while, earlier so this year. All leaves started out rich green. The soil is what they came in still. They get watered every other day and have drain holes. Some tomato fertilizer mixed with their water every now and then. They get almost full sun. We put them on our covered porch for a week or so while we had full cloud cover and heavy rain, then back out to the sun (maybe sunburn?). The plant pictured here has more main branches than her other plant and has fewer perfectly healthy looking leaves. I haven’t checked to see if they’re root bound, not sure if tomatoes care that much? I don’t see any pests on them. I’ve looked at photos of deficiencies and diseases and they are all too similar for me to really tell. Is this just what old/unneeded foliage looks like? Thank you so much for any help y’all can offer!
SE Louisiana zone 9a, these two trees (10+ years old?) are in the ground and get watered only by the rain. They don’t get 100% full sun, partly shaded out by taller grown up trees around them. I’ve only been their mama for two years and they looked the same last year (no changes, just more rainfall by this point in the season). The new leaves come in lush and green, then yellowing begins from between the veins. For the most part the leaves do not turn completely yellow and they don’t fall off, just stay splotchy, more so for the leaves with more sun exposure I think. I’m not good at describing soil; you can see in the second photo upper left that it’s nice and brown. It gets lots of decaying pine needles and oak leaves. They don’t get fertilized, but I’d be happy to change that.
I’m too lazy to take a pic that really shows its state. It looks worse without flash and the lower leaves look like they’ve got flat mites. I think the mother plant to these two succumbed to flat mites; these (~1yr old) were looking flawless for a while but now we’re back to bumps and depressions. I definitely have mites in my collection rn, but the lower leaves on these don’t fall off as easily as others with mites. And yes, well draining substrate, watered when lower leaves get pliable, but I guess with the weird state of the lower leaves I’ve probably watered too soon on occasion and got some edema on upper leaves. Such a pretty hybrid, but I’m giving up if these two don’t make it.