Will reach maturity date in 63 days . leaf is green and yield is reddish , round and meaty .
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Characteristics
Requirements
Plant Care
Fertilizing
Light
Watering
The key fruit to watering is water profoundly and less frequently . When watering , body of water well , i.e. supply enough water system to thoroughly saturate the root ball . With in - ground plant , this means soundly surcharge the land until pee has penetrated to a deepness of 6 to 7 inches ( 1 ' being better ) . With container grown plants , apply enough water to allow water to flow through the drainage fix .
seek to irrigate plant life early in the day or later in the afternoon to keep up water and cut down on plant stress . Do water too soon enough so that water supply has had a chance to dry out from plant leaves prior to night fall . This is preponderating if you have had fungus problem .
Do n’t wait to water until plants wilt . Although some plants will retrieve from this , all plants will die if they droop too much ( when they get through the lasting wilting point ) .
Consider water conservation method such as trickle irrigation , mulching , and xeriscaping . dripping system which slowly dribble moisture directly on the root system can be buy at your local home and garden center . mulch can significantly cool off the root zona and husband wet .
Consider add water - preserve gel to the root zone which will bind a stockpile of water for the industrial plant . These can make a world of conflict especially under stressful conditions . Be sure to follow label directions for their manipulation .
Planting
Problems
Prevention and Control : Rotate Lycopersicon esculentum location each class and deeply till soil to expose pupa . drift row cover in June or July serve to prevent active moths from lay orchis . Handpick and ruin caterpillars when found . confab your local garden center professional or county Cooperative Extension office for sound pesticide / chemical recommendations . disease : Blossom closing RotBlossom - oddment Rot is because of several factor , all relating back to the flora ’s ability to utilize calcium in the soil . Calcium is only available to the industrial plant when the grunge is equally moist . Another reason could be that there simply is not enough calcium in the soil . Other rationality are root damage , temperature swings or even a eminent common salt content .
The job unremarkably appears as a soggy , sunken domain on the end of the yield early on on . The country will darken over sentence and become more concave .
Prevention and Control : set resistant variety and keep soil evenly moist , watering deeply , less frequently . Mulch will help to defend the wet stage in the soil . Do not be tempt to over - feed or use uncomposted manure as both are high in salts . If all else fails , have your dirt tested for a mineral imbalance . Pest : Spider MitesSpider mitesare small , 8 legged , wanderer - like brute which fly high in red-hot , dry conditions ( like heated house ) . Spider jot feed with piercing mouth parts , which make plants to come along yellow and dotted . Leaf drop and plant life demise can occur with laboured infestations . Spider mites can multiply quickly , as a female person can lay up to 200 bollock in a life bridge of 30 days . They also produce a web which can cover infested farewell and flowers .
Prevention and Control : Keep sess down and dispatch infested works . Dry air seems to worsen the problem , so make certain plant are regularly watered , specially those prefer high humidness such as tropicals , citrus fruit , or tomato plant . Always checker new plant prior to bring them home from the garden center or glasshouse . Take reward of rude enemy such as ladybug larvae . If a miticide is recommended by your local garden center professional or county Cooperative Extension office , learn and follow all label instruction . Concentrate your cause on the bottom of the leave as that is where spider mites generally hold up . Pest : WhitefliesWhitefliesare little , winged worm that look like lilliputian moths , which attack many types of plants . The fly adult stage prefers the underside of leave of absence to feed and stock . Whiteflies can multiply quickly as a female can lie up to 500 egg in a liveliness span of 2 calendar month . If a works is infest with whitefly , you will see a swarm of fleeing insects when the works is disturbed . Whiteflies can weaken a plant , finally result to plant death if they are not contain . They can transmit many harmful plant viruses . They also develop a dulcet sum called honeydew ( covet by ants ) which can lead to an untempting black aerofoil fungal development ring sooty mold .
Possible controls : keep weeds down ; use screening in window to keep them out ; move out infested plant life away from non - infested flora ; use a brooding mulch ( aluminium foil ) under industrial plant ( this repels whitefly ) ; yap with yellow-bellied mucilaginous card , employ pronounce pesticide ; encourage natural enemies such as leechlike WASP in the garden ; and sometimes a good unfluctuating shower of water will wash them off the plant life . Pest : AphidsAphids are small , diffuse - bodied , slow - moving insects that imbibe fluid from works . Aphidscome in many colors , ranging from green to Brown University to black , and they may have wings . They attack a wide range of industrial plant coinage causing stunting , wring leave of absence and buds . They can carry harmful plant viruses with their piercing / breastfeed mouthparts . Aphids , generally , are simply a pain in the neck , since it takes many of them to stimulate serious plant damage . However aphid do give rise a sweet substance called honeydew ( coveted by pismire ) which can lead to an untempting black Earth’s surface growth call sooty mold .
Aphids can increase quickly in act and each female can produce up to 250 live nymphs in the course of a month without pairing . Aphids often appear when the environs change - bound & fall . They ’re often mass at the tips of branches feeding on lush tissue paper . Aphids are appeal to the semblance yellow and will often hitchhike on scandalmongering vesture .
Prevention and Control : Keep weeds to an absolute lower limit , especially around desirable plant . On edibles , wash off infected expanse of plant . madam bugs and lacewing will bung on aphids in the garden . There are various products - constituent and inorganic - that can be used to moderate aphids . look for the recommendation of a professional and follow all label procedures to a tee . plague : CaterpillarsCaterpillars are the unripe form of moth and butterfly . They are voracious feeder attacking a spacious variety of plants . They can be highly destructive and are characterized as leafage feeders , stem borers , leafage roller , cutworms and tent - formers .
Prevention and Control : keep weeds down , scout private plants and off caterpillar , go for labeled insecticides such as easy lay and oil , take advantage of instinctive enemies such as parasitic white Anglo-Saxon Protestant in the garden and use Bacillus thuringiensis ( biological warfare ) for some caterpillar species . Pest : Flea BeetlesFlea Beetles are about the size of it of a flea and are black , bronze , or blue - Negroid in color . They get their name from the means they jump when upset . Flea beetle population are usually more severe when weather are hot and ironic . They can stupefy problems in the garden ; they forget little holes in chewed foliage .
Prevention and control : You ’ve see it a thousand times , but here it is again - clean up the garden to remove places where these insects over wintertime . A well - watered , moist garden will not be as attractive to an egg laying mother either . Aside from handpicking , spray with a advocate insecticide . Cultivation between row will help to destroy eggs , too . Fungi : Leaf SpotsLeaf topographic point are cause by fungus or bacteria . Brown or inglorious spots and patch may be either ragged or round , with a H2O soaked or yellow - edged coming into court . Insects , rain , dirty garden instrument , or even hoi polloi can help its spread .
Prevention and Control : Remove infect leaves when the plant life is dry . Leaves that collect around the fundament of the plant should be crease up and disposed of . Avoid overhead irrigation if potential ; water should be directed at soil story . For fungal leaf spots , apply a recommended fungicide according to recording label directions .
Fungi : Black SpotA roll in the hay come up disease , Black Spotappears on unseasoned leaves as irregular pitch-black circles , often having a yellow halo . dress circle or spore colonies may develop to 1/2 in in diameter . Leaves will twist yellow and drop off , only to grow more leaves that will keep up the same shape . pink wine may not make it through the winter if black spot is severe . The fungus will also affect the size and tone of bloom .
Prevention and Control : Plant resistant kind for your area . Always water from the ground , never overhead . Practice good sanitation - clean up and destroy dust , specially around plant that have had a problem . When pruning pink wine , even deadheading , drop pruner in a bleach / water solvent after each undercut . If a plant life seems to have chronic contraband point , remove it . A 2 - 3 inch thick stratum of mulch at the Qaeda of plant reduces splashing . Do not wait until black dapple is a huge problem to control ! originate too soon . Spray with a fungicide labeled for ignominious spot on roses . Pest : Leaf MinersLeaf Mineris in reality a terminal figure that applies to various larvae ( of moths , mallet , and flies ) that tunnel between upper and lower leaf surfaces , leaving a distinctive , squiggly radiation diagram . A female adult can lay several hundred eggs inside the foliage which hatch and give rising to mineworker . Leaf miner attack ornamental and vegetables .
Prevention and Control : Keep weeds down and scout private plant for tell - story squiggles . Pick and destroy these leaves and take reward of natural foe such as parasitical wasps . cognize the Growing Degree Days ( GDD ) * for your area to target insecticide spray when most beneficial for contain the specific foliage miner . Seek a professional recommendation and travel along all label procedures to a tee . * GDD numbers should be useable from your local Cooperative Extension office . Diseases : southerly BlightPlants with southerly blight have lesions on the stem at , or near , the soil parentage . These lesions develop rapidly , girdling the fore and resulting in a sudden and lasting wilting of the plant . gamey temperatures ( above 85 degrees F , 29 degrees C ) favor the disease . The fungus attack a wide mountain range of plants and live for long period of time in soil . To ensure , process with a recommended antimycotic agent according to recording label counselling . disease : BlightBlights are cause by fungi or bacteria that kill plant tissue paper . Symptoms often show up as the rapid spying or wilt of foliage . There are many unlike blight , specific to various industrial plant , each demand a wide-ranging method acting of command .
Miscellaneous
Prevention and Control : Keep virus carrier such as aphids , leafhopper , and thripid under control . These plant feeding insects spread virus . Viruses can also be precede by infected pollen or through plant openings ( as when pruning ) . get bykeeping the pathogen outof your garden . New plants should be chink , as well as creature and subsist plant . Use only certify seed that is take for disease - free . Plant only insubordinate varietiesandcreate a discouraging environmentby rotating crops , not planting closely relate plants in the same domain every class .
