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I'm giving my tomato plants fertilizer like every two or three days partially because they seem to love it and partially to offset the spider mites sucking them dry that this stupid fucking spider mite spray isn't killing. Anyway, it's real satisfying watching them respond to it and shoot out the lushest most verdant emerald greenery you can imagine

I'm doing the same thing with my lemon tree basically and whenever it gets its plant foods it's like YESSS and starts shooting out all kinds of new growth like crazy. It's got this one bit of new growth that's got leaves as big as my fucking hand like omg i love it. Did you know lemon leaves and shoots smell lemony?? wow, amazing. Too bad I don't live in a zone where it can reliably survive the winter in the ground

(My plan is to keep taking cuttings and keep it going as a line of clones until climate change lets me plant it)

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Yeah I was going really good but then my cherry tomato plant got mites really bad, i noticed nothing and then within 3 days they were all webbed up and very visible. Then i put off treating them. But i got some bullshit spray that plugs into my hose because it specifically said it gets spider mites, but i think it's either weak af or more of a fungicide treatment. It's halted their tearing through my plants but they're still there, fuckin them up.

I thought about buying predator mites but they're so fucking expensive it's like ughh i might as well just buy tomatoes. Ive only got two plants in pots, a roma tomato plant and the cherry tomatoes. Thankfully they're not destroying the roma plant as bad but they're still infesting the cherry tomatoes

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