Safe to eat ?
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Justin00
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you should be fine eating it whenever its ripe. =) nutes don't really work the same as pesticides and stuff, you cant wash them off and they don't hurt you, nutes are just what the plant is turning into tomatos. in fruit and veg growing a lot of ppl like to drop off the nitrogen near the end and increase potassium to increase the flavor. or at least thats the explanation they give for why they cut nitrogen near the end.
hope it helps - key point -> "nutes" are not toxic after being absorbed into the plant and turned into fruit... no matter how many you use or how long you use them. don't go feeding it mercury or anything but with normal nutes you have nothing to worry about.
hope it helps - key point -> "nutes" are not toxic after being absorbed into the plant and turned into fruit... no matter how many you use or how long you use them. don't go feeding it mercury or anything but with normal nutes you have nothing to worry about.
PIPBoy2000
Active Member
So what, tomatoes for breakfast?
Mmmmmmm BLT.
Mmmmmmm BLT.
CaliMackdaddy
Active Member
Carrot, zuchinni, and celery juice.. that's my breakfast.
PIPBoy2000
Active Member
My breakfast - Golden Yunnan, kashi cereal with grassfed milk, oh and I ate that grapefruit from my Beer thread update.
Carl Spackler
Well-Known Member
This is spot-on advice. A tomato plant, (or any other plant) are remarkable little chemical processing factories that use both macro and micro nutrients for their ultimate goal...reproduction and continuation of the species. In this case, the fruit of the tomato. Whether the nutrients are natural and "organic" or, synthesized by other means the plant neither knows or cares how they were made available as long as they are in correct proportion for healthy, vigorous growth. For example, a naturally occurring molecule of N,P or K is identical to one produced synthetically.