I gave my plants MG tomatoe fertilizer but it ended up being too much and a few new leaves look burnt and wilted. They are all in 5 gallon buckets. Today I put 1-2 gallons of water through each plant and let it drain out the bottom. Should this be sufficient or do I need to put more water through them?
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Define "too much" - if you followed the directions on the package the flushing you've already done should be sufficient; just give them plain water for the next couple of weeks and they should recover. Likely the old growth won't return to normal but the new growth coming in should be fine. And clearly back off the amount you do use when you return to using the fert. However, if you got over-enthusiastic and added more than the directions indicate, you probably ought to flush a couple more times.
Caveat - the age of your plants makes a difference, too. Very young plants can only handle very small amounts of nutes, so would require more flushing even if you mixed according to the package directions. I am assuming that your plants are reasonably grown at this point since you are in California and not the "great white" (snowy) part of the country.
Caveat - the age of your plants makes a difference, too. Very young plants can only handle very small amounts of nutes, so would require more flushing even if you mixed according to the package directions. I am assuming that your plants are reasonably grown at this point since you are in California and not the "great white" (snowy) part of the country.
Each plant got about 2/3 gallon of 18-18-21 so 12-12-14. The plants are this biggeeme said:
I was fertilizing them in hopes of fixing the flower drop problem but I just messed things up more. Gonna leave them alone once the fertilizer is flushed out
Water came out the bottom until the buckets were just very damp.sp33d said:
