u/tealeaf_egg

I’m having trouble dealing with my excessive mycelium growth because every thing i search is like “it’s great!!!! don’t worry about a thing!!!” or like…”i’ve never experienced it but here’s my guess!” so reddit, I come to you… my tomato plants have died somewhat mysteriously, and the soil they were living in appears to the human eye to be 90% mycelium, from just below the surface to 8 inches down. The picture shows a circle where i’ve moved the mulch and very thin layer of compost out of the way, but it’s in the whole area. The medium is originally a mix of perlite, compost, and “raised bed mix“ and a hefty layer of mulch (random leaves and stuff from the yard).

Plants in the affected area show wilt across the plant on a classic water stressed way, and the mycelium mass is clearly hydrophobic. It looks soft but it’s quite hard. breaking up the soil gently with a claw thing and chopstick have only mildly improved symptoms, but the daily wilt and lack of turgor are alarming. Has anyone experienced this and fixed it?

consider this a scrub post, this is my first year actually having some kind of long term tomato success. my raised bed plants are having greta production (yayy!!) anyway, this isn’t about them

im practicing starting seeds with some free beefsteak seeds (the packet was not more specific) and decided to try a sneed snail. seed snail. the little guys are on their second set of true leaves and there is one truly special guy who is a little bigger than the rest but is also flopping over terribly in an imitation of what looks kind of like damping off. his stem is bald at the root level, as you can see. however, its leaves are turgid and jolly and bigger than the others. it has looked bald and floppy for a good week and has always looked otherwise healthy, so it’s not some sudden onset thing. is this just something some seedlings do as a hobby?

I have a ridiculously compact celebrity tomato, where the flowers on one sucker are growing right on top of the fruit from a different truss. I anticipate there may be problems when both trusses are fruiting, as the trusses seem kind of inflexible. However. I don’t really prune much and it’s determinate, so maybe I should leave it alone. What would you do?

I need some help!

Pertinent info: zone 10a, sunset 22, weather is 55-85 lately, young mammoth basil in a raised bed with raised bed bagged mix / compost / perlite Morning sun from 7-2, afternoon shade afterwards.

I want to grow this mammoth basil but it is flowering, or at least budding. The classic advice is to pinch the bud and let the side shoots grow. Right. It reduces apical dominance and all that. But there is no space to pinch the bud. You can see in the picture that I pinched the plant, the side shoot has grown, and immediately budded without growing out at all. I could technically pinch this bud but I’m so pessimistic about it that I’m posting on Reddit instead. What am I supposed to do here? If this keeps going in this pattern of bud pinch bud pinch, I end up with no basil, just twice as many flower pinches every week. (This is not a joke, I did that last time I tried to grow basil. Not fun!!)

I don’t believe it’s heat. the highs are only 85 and the plant is in half shade. It’s getting watered deeply whenever the soil is somewhat dry. There’s no pest pressure at the moment. I’m using high nitrogen fertilizer on the packet schedule.

My dream is for someone to hold my hand and go, tealeaf egg, don’t worry, that bud is actually just tricking you and if you just do nothing it will turn into basil leaves. You are driving yourself insane for no reason.

Anyway, if you got down here, thank you so much. Please drop your basil growing advice.

O Redditors, I come seeking guidance on this big ass pimple on my tomato. It’s firm and dry and around half a cm wide. Googling white spot on tomato shoulder doesn’t yield anything that actually matches the description. this is a cherokee carbon hybrid. The tomato has one cat facing but is otherwise healthy (and needs to turn color soon dammit!!). i’m in sunset 22 zone 10a. temps have been 75-88 high lately and 50s low. it’s in a raised bed with deep watering every 5 or so days. the rest of the plant looks pretty good.