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Old September 7, 2010   #25
b54red
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I've been to LA a couple of times and the climate seems wonderful. Imagine what it is like trying to grow tomatoes where the temps and humidity can hover near 100 for weeks on end. Some mornings your plants are so wet from the high humidity that water is dripping off of them like right after a heavy rain. It's really hard to keep the foliage diseases at bay under those conditions and like you I became despondent about ever having a successful tomato growing season.
I was to the point where I didn't care if the treatment finished off my sickly plants or not when I first used it. Some of them did die because the plants were so thoroughly infected but the ones that survived got a new lease on life and I got a new lease on tomato growing. There are now very few days from mid June to Christmas that I can't go out and pick a fresh tomato. Now if I can just find a solution for fusarium wilt and whiteflies.
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