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All vegetables are drying up
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Mon, Jun 2, 14 at 16:29
Well now I find that all my vegetables are drying up.
What its going on
I stopped the over watering and I sprayed withe vinegar and water.
Look at my pictures
help I need suggestions |
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RE: All vegetables are drying up
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| Vinegar is an herbicide. If you spray your vegetables with vinegar it will kill them. |
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| Oh man :( who told you to spray them with vinegar? sad face... |
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| Yes, unfortunately those look done. Am also curious about why you sprayed with vinegar? Can you pull them and plant new? |
RE: All vegetables are drying up
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| Don't know where you got the idea or where you read to spray with vinegar (can you give a source?). I'm afraid they are toast. Edited to add: After a quick search I found a couple of other posts by the OP. Tomatoes leaves drying up Mealybugs Rodney |
This post was edited by theforgottenone1013 on Mon, Jun 2, 14 at 17:09
RE: All vegetables are drying up
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| Vinegar? You just killed your plants! |
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| I've seen quite a lot of posts here and there on this site touting vinegar as a "natural" solution for whatever. Seems to be a meme going around, and this is what happens. |
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| I've successfully eradicated morning glory with vinegar so I can imagine what it would do to tomatoes. What a bummer! |
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| Maybe you read something about adding vinegar to water to lower the pH of the water to water plants with. But as a foliar spray definitely a no no. |
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| It was someone posting about using vinegar as a fungicide. |
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I also added a Top soil the cheap one from Home Depot and after that they started dying .
Could be be it? |
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| No. With 100% certainty, what killed it was spraying it with vinegar and water. I searched this forum and could not find any post where that was recommended. Very confused by that one. |
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| The main stem actually still looks pretty healthy. It's possible that you'll get new leaf growth. Just immediately stop with the vinegar spray. You can also take a backup plan and remove some of the plants and start over with plant starts from the store. Leave a few of your originals to give it a chance to recover, if you want., |
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| Well now you know. Vinegar is not good for live plants, but it is very good at killing live plants. Since you really have no other option, I am with gardenper. Try to salvage them by flushing them with clean water, a lot of water. Do a foliage flush and a root flush. Throw your vinegar solution away! After flushing them, trim any branches/leaves that are completely dead/obviously on their way out, and then I'd give them a batch of fertilizer. I don't typically spout the use of miracle grow, but go for it!! There is a possibility that they have enough energy stored up to make it leafless for a couple weeks. The miracle grow may give it enough nitrogen to start immediate leaf growth. I had a hibiscus this year that got a shot from the neighbors herbicide and I had to do this exact same method. It has rebounded amazingly! There is a chance the fert will finish her off, but you really don't have any options. You need new healthy growth asap! |
RE: All vegetables are drying up
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| I also noticed that my cucumber are deformed look at the pictures is that normal? |
RE: All vegetables are drying up
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| Occasionally cukes are deformed like that. However, in the photo, I see no leaves except for one. And that leaf is brown and shriveled up. That is not normal. On a healthy cucumber plant there should be a lot, and I do mean a lot, more leaves than I see. You didn't spray with vinegar again, did you? Rodney |
RE: All vegetables are drying up
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| That cuke also looks like it may have sat too long on the vine without being picked. Did it look better a week ago? |
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