Questions About My Tomatoes And Peppers

mugan

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ok i have 3 ques so instead of 3 threads i just decided to make one :) , ok so i have grown tomatoes before and usually stick to 'greatest of all' at least thats what they call it here, it does well and it gets pretty large, well this time i added a strawberry tomato, this thing is mutating( PIC A) am worried about it going over its set area( i spaced them 2ft) and its roots are way into the others space. any way first que, has any one grown this thing before and should i pull it to save 3 others. second question , i found these white aphids ( pic b) on one of my tomatoes leaves, is it a problem i thought tomatoes were insect proof there weakness being fungus, ( i put fungi side not insecticide on them) there also seemed to be no major dmg on the leaf .

ok last que i have had these peppers in the ground for over 1 1/2 years now, they fruit constantly there is always a pepper on each or most of the time a bunch of peppers, but for the last few months the leaves have began to curl, no discoloration no drooping just curl, i herd this was a kind of virus that affected them but it was also supposed to effect the fruit which in this case is just fine in fact they have been extremely large and always like 10 a branch. so what do you guys think can i save them or should i pull them? (PIC C,D)

and this is not important but i got this other tomato seed from some guy and its real good , not to big but taste is real strong and it has diff shaped leaves can any one identify?
 

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mugan

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this is not hydro, but humidity is a problem here and i do spray the tomatoes my question is more about the plant and the aphids
 

Cali chronic

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Tomatoes in my experience don't choke one another out. A good rule is to have then about 3-4 feet apart due to the canopy needs space.

Your Peppers could be either hitting a spot of nutes that you put in the soil--like if you tilled gardeners calcium and the root hit a spot. Usually when that occurs it is NOT the whole plant. A plant will curl up when it gets to much sun or to hot as well. Try making a tent canopy with shade netting over then and se results.

Aphids are hungry and you put food out. You should use a spray if you have neem oil and some dish soap mix it together in spray bottle and spray at dusk (evening) after sun is going down or will burn them if sun is up.
Use about a tbspoon of soap and 2 tbsp of neem oil. BT might do it too Bacillus Thorengenius...
Hope this helps
CC
 

mugan

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nice ( done) i din't have neem oil but i do have access to a young neem tree so i did the leaf extract and mixed it with lavender and pepper, then mixed it with soap. i guess al just wait and see what happens to the peppers.
 
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