and welcome back to moore approved I'm James I actually picked up this tomato plant
from my local hardware store it is an indeterminate species and it was on
clearance and as you can see it has had some better days so before I take this
into my indoor garden there's a couple of things I want to do I picked up a
bottle of this Miracle Grow nature care three-in-one insect disease and mite
control and I want to make sure that I fully spray this down before I take it
indoors because if this does have a disease or an insect or something along
those lines on it I do not want it to infest
the rest of my plants so I'm just going to take this nicely hold it on the side
just saturate this down and I'm just going to set that aside while I prepare
my soil does this build I am just going to be using a three gallon plastic
bucket I've cut a screen and I'm going to put that into the bottom to keep the
dirt from coming up from the bottom the other thing I am going to do is I'm
going to set this in a container and give it a nice liberal coating of water
because this is pretty dried out it looks like they've stopped taking care
of them at the stores and that is probably most of the problem with the
condition of this particular plant I'm going to use a combination of the Fox
farms ocean forest and happy frog the happy frog is going to be up towards the
top and then the Fox farms ocean for stuff is going to be down at the bottom
and I'm going to pre-soak that and get that ready for that to go inside
happy frog because if he's not happy you're probably eating him I'm just going
to give it a little top-off with some more of the ocean for stuff now I have
to do is soak this down strip off that container and then plant it and I'm
going to take and cut off some of these bottom leaves because I'm going to plant
this down a little bit deeper than what it is right now now if you're looking
you can see that there is some damage to the bottom of the foliage here and I
actually want to plant this down probably another inch from where it was
because I want this to throw out a lot of different roots so I'm just going to
go ahead clip these lower branches off so all that's left is to figure out
where we want this so I'm going to go ahead pull the nice portion of this up
move it off to the side and even though I pre soaked this you can see that this
soil likes to stay dry so I'm going to put a little bit of water down the
bottom there go ahead cut this by the biodegradable and
plastic container off it seems like it's going to rain here pretty quick so I
gotta make this fast so the plastic container is off now all we have to do is peel
off this biodegradable portion of it because I want these roots to really fan
out try searching for new water sources and
get established you want to very gently do that you know the disturb too much of
the root structure and on the bottom here you also want to make sure you take
this off I have omitted doing that portion before and it just stunted the
overall growth of one of my tomato plants have never recovered now take some
water put it into the bottom of there and we're going to rough these roots up
a little bit sort of break it get it
uncompact stick that down into place firmly try to get it facing upright fill in all the soil
around the edges all right now we have him into place we're going to go ahead
and water this quite vigorously make sure everything is looking good another
thing to be aware of if you do see any blossoms or fruits that are growing on
these plants if you buy them later in the season on clearance before they
throw them out make sure you cut all those off you want it to focus all of
its energy on building that root structure in its new home nice healthy
thick stalk the leaves are a little bit yellow I suspect that this is
malnourished it just blew through all the nutrients in the potting soil but it
was grown in it looks like it had a little bit of damage from some chewing
insects that's why we sprayed it down with an anti insect and fungicides but
thanks for watching moore approved I will give you guys updates as this guy progresses
until next time I'm James
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