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Posted by Honu z11 HI (My Page) on Sun, Jan 2, 05 at 16:08
| Hi, has anyone had success growing Arkansas Traveler tomatoes organically here? I know lots of people grow cherry tomatoes easily, but I'm trying to grow a good tasting slicing type tomato organically. I started the seeds in June. More than 6 months later, plants look tall and healthy, has lot of flowers, but never got fruit. I have red clay soil here in Honolulu, but amended with organic compost, greensand, eggshells, rock phosphate, dolomite lime, foliar feed w/ epsom salt, and have red plastic mulch around each plant base. Seems like we have the perfect temps for tomatoes, plants are tall and healthy looking, yet I can't get any fruit. Can't figure out what's the problem. Too much rain this year? Too windy? The Arkansas Travelers are supposed to be heat, humidity, and disease tolerant, as well as good tasting. Do you know another variety that is also good tasting that I should try? Also, once it starts fruiting, how do you protect the fruit without using chemicals? Thanks for any advice! |
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| at 82deg or so tomatoes wont set fruit, but if it flowered. i say be patient and plenty of sun hope it helps you |
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| I wish I could grow tomatoes, but I have constant leaf miner problems with tomatoes and can not find a way to get rid of the problem. I've given up. I'm glad that someone can grow them without the same problem. My guess for no fruit would be not enough sun. |
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| Does the 82 degrees mentioned mean minimum or maximum? |
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- Posted by Honu z11 HI (My Page) on
Tue, Aug 23, 05 at 19:21
| Thanks for the replies! With the help of the nice folks at the tomato forum, I discovered my mistake was over-watering and over-fertilizing. I finally was able to grow my own tomatoes organically this year. I would love to hear from anyone growing tomatoes in Hawaii, what varieties you tried, and your growing experiences. |
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| Aloha Honu, Any indeterminate small fruited variety of tomato seems to do well. The determinate varieties give one round of fruit and then die off, but then, that's what they are supposed to do. The larger fruited varieties get stung by fruit flies and then they don't set fruit or if the do it falls off before it gets ripe. Roma does well as well as the small cherry varieties. A hui hou,
Cathy |
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