Posted by EVP MAN on December 30, 2010, 11:23 am
I think it can help indeed. Last season Penn State university was
warning about another bad year for late blight in our area. I started
all my plants indoors from seed. Gave plants to many of my neighbors
and not one of these plants were hit with late blight or any other
disease! I think when you buy your plants from a nursery or chain
store, you take the chance that your plants may be diseased when you
take them home. These growers raise their plants on a much larger scale
and in my opinion, it increases the risk of disease spreading
throughout their plants. What do you think?
Rich
Posted by cshenk on December 30, 2010, 1:35 pm
"EVP MAN" wrote
> I think it can help indeed. Last season Penn State university was
> warning about another bad year for late blight in our area. I started
> all my plants indoors from seed. Gave plants to many of my neighbors
> and not one of these plants were hit with late blight or any other
> disease! I think when you buy your plants from a nursery or chain
> store, you take the chance that your plants may be diseased when you
> take them home. These growers raise their plants on a much larger scale
> and in my opinion, it increases the risk of disease spreading
> throughout their plants. What do you think?
I've experienced exactly that from the commercial growers seedlings. Last
year was not a good one to get healthy plants.
Posted by mj on December 30, 2010, 2:12 pm
On Dec 30, 11:23 am, White_Nois...@webtv.net (EVP MAN) wrote:
> I think it can help indeed. Last season Penn State university was
> warning about another bad year for late blight in our area. I started
> all my plants indoors from seed. Gave plants to many of my neighbors
> and not one of these plants were hit with late blight or any other
> disease! I think when you buy your plants from a nursery or chain
> store, you take the chance that your plants may be diseased when you
> take them home. These growers raise their plants on a much larger scale
> and in my opinion, it increases the risk of disease spreading
> throughout their plants. What do you think?
> Rich
I have always started them from seed and have yet to produce a good
tomato crop. Does anyone know if acidic water would cause blight or
wilt? I water with lake water that is acidic, not exactly what the ph
is.
MJ
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> warning about another bad year for late blight in our area. I started
> all my plants indoors from seed. Gave plants to many of my neighbors
> and not one of these plants were hit with late blight or any other
> disease! I think when you buy your plants from a nursery or chain
> store, you take the chance that your plants may be diseased when you
> take them home. These growers raise their plants on a much larger scale
> and in my opinion, it increases the risk of disease spreading
> throughout their plants. What do you think?