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Jul 2017
4:59pm, 15 Jul 2017
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sallykate
[AR my MiL was like that...we had a big thirsty willow in a pot and we used to come home to half the leaves having fallen off because it had got so dry!]
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Jul 2017
8:01pm, 15 Jul 2017
27,165 posts
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alpenrose
[I have a friend who will drown my houseplants when I go away so I give her strict instructions not to water any orchids, even if it's 3 weeks.]
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Jul 2017
9:17pm, 15 Jul 2017
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Nightjar
Lol, didn't read NDWDaves earlier post 
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Jul 2017
11:22am, 16 Jul 2017
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sallykate
A few pics - the self-sown one is about 2.40m now
The bigger one in the pot is 2.50m
It's getting tricky to measure that one, my stepladders aren't high enough!
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Jul 2017
12:42pm, 16 Jul 2017
27,175 posts
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alpenrose
Perhaps that's the trick then, plant them somewhere shady so they have to grow tall looking for the sun.
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Jul 2017
1:46pm, 16 Jul 2017
5,116 posts
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sallykate
These are in sunny spots, south-west facing so they're in the sun all afternoon.
On the subject of feeding them...plants focus on three things: roots, shoots, fruits (or roots, leaves and flowers) - in that order. Fertilisers contain nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium (NPK), each of which will help in different ways.
Nitrogen: For green leafy growth
Phosphorus: For healthy root and shoot growth
Potassium: For flowering, fruiting and general hardiness
(Nicked from the RHS.)
Tomato fertiliser (at least, the one I'm looking at now) contains 4% N, 3% P and 8% K, whereas my ordinary liquid plant food has 4-4-5. A high N fertiliser can prohibit flowers as the plant just focuses on leafy growth instead but it's useful in the early stages to get the plant going. I suspect that Tomorite is good for tomatoes partly because the high K also helps the plant to manage stress, which might be a problem for container-grown tomatoes (or ones in Gro-Bags) if they dry out at all.
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Jul 2017
5:44pm, 16 Jul 2017
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alpenrose
Hmmm, that could be why my tomato plants grow over 10 feet tall..........
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Jul 2017
5:51pm, 16 Jul 2017
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Nightjar
Just measured mine as 221cm or 7'3".
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Jul 2017
6:17pm, 18 Jul 2017
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bigleggy
Get watering them plants people. Mine were wilting when I got home from work :-/
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Jul 2017
7:43pm, 18 Jul 2017
27,212 posts
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alpenrose
I watered mine earlier and the rain's just watered them again now.
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