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| Here is a rough draft of my 012 list. It will change some. I will grow more hybrids this year than I have is many years. With no sign that the drought is ending many of the hybrids perform better and have better disease resistance. Now that I have a lean to greenhouse I will start several plants earlier. I plan on growing the dwarf's and several of the determinate's in containers. My plan is to plant 20-30 grafted plants in the ground and also to wintersow 5-8 plants. My wintersown plants have outperformed my others several times. I will end up with 50-60 plants in the ground and 20-25 in containers. Jay
Rough draft 1-1-012 All around varieties- 8 #670
Cherries -7 Ambrosia Giant
Plum,Pear and other small varieties - 6 Bedouin - Pear 3-6 ounces - Dark
Reds med -large - 9 4th of July Hybrid
Pinks/Darks -14
Bi- Colors - 3 Ana's Noire - Usually a heavy producing large 10-16 ounce slicer.
Orange/Yellow - 3 1884 Yellow Pink Heart
Emerald Evergreen - The best GWR I've grown Container plants - 5 Dwarf's/Small Determinates/Ect Dwarf Beryl Beauty
Grafting stock
D - Determinate
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- Posted by highalttransplant z 5 Western CO (My Page) on Tue, Jan 10, 12 at 19:47
| That is an impressive list! I think the only two on there that I've grown before are Black from Tula, and Cherokee Purple. I haven't even started working on my tomato list. Peppers come first for me, since they need an earlier start. I will probably use pretty much the same list as last year, since I never really got to try any of them. We had a late start to spring, and I wintersowed them all. They germinated so late that I ended up buying plants. This year, I'll sow some indoors, and still wintersow a few, just to have back ups. Bonnie |
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| Impressive - yes, it is! Right now, I just want to say that Jay is an inspiration! Thank you for sharing so much information with us here. Steve |
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| I'm still thinkin' about it. As usual, this time of year I'm convinced I'll only plant like 3 or 4. Then when I actually get around to planting seeds, I end up planting 20 different kinds. Jay, Vorlon is one of my perennial favorites, and I usually have at least a dozen plants. At the farmers market, I sell that tomato exclusively, and its developed a real fan club. The only difficulty is 'splainin' the name (character from SciFi) and then getting into pontificating about a stabilized cross between Cherokee Purple and Pruden's Purple. Its a good tomato that seems to have *some* resistance to the annual crud/curly top virus. I'm sending you an email, re potential seed swap. |
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| David if you sent an email I haven't received it. I looked in my trash ect and didn't find anything. Jay |
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| I used the email link on your "My Page" - this morning around 10:00 am - Would you mind trying to send me on via the link on my GW page, and I can respond to that?
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| David I sent you an email. Let me know if it went through. Maybe my IP provider spam filter is stopping it for some reason. Jay |
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| Got it, Jay, and replied. |
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| Ha, now I'm curious to try Randy's Brandy and JD's Special Pink Heart. I'm searching around for a place that sells these seeds but haven't found anything yet. Any ideas as to where to order them? ~Rodney |
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| Rodney, I don't think you will find either for sale anywhere. I was going to send you a message but it doesn't give that option on your profile. I have plenty of seeds for Randy's Brandy. I'm the only source of seeds for JD's Special Pink Heart. I haven't shared seeds of it with but one person as I'm still not sure if it is stable or not. Once stable I will share seeds. But if you desire seeds of Randy's Brandy just drop me a message. I'm attaching a link for Tomato Man's Daughter where you will see a description of it and some of the other varieties I'm growing that came from the Tulsa area. Grandma Suzy's was impressive here last summer also. Jay |
Here is a link that might be useful: Tomato Man's Daughter
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- Posted by highalttransplant z 5 Western CO (My Page) on Wed, Mar 14, 12 at 15:48
| Okay, I finally wintersowed tomatoes today. Here is my 2012 grow list: Amish Paste I may still sow a few back-ups indoors in another week or so, just to be safe. Last year, the spring was so cold, and wet, that germination was almost a month late. The sprouts were so tiny that I ended up purchasing plants. I don't really expect that this year, since it is much warmer and drier, but I'd rather not take any chances. Bonnie |
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| Much smaller list than normal this year but I got them planted today: Aunt Gerties Gold |
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| Last week, I was pawing through the chest freezer in the garage and found a frozen quart of half-dried Aunt Gerties Gold tomatoes - there was some recipe I was going to try with them, probably tomato jam, but never got around to it. Anyway, I thawed them out and put them in the food processor, grated a clove of garlic, added just a bit of dried oregano and some dried ancho pepper and turned it into a spread - my thats good. I planted my seeds yesterday. Coldset and a new pear/cherry tomato that I can't recall right now but got from Sandhill. I'll set out about 80 plants, about 30 Vorlon, 20 Thessaloniki, and the rest as trials. |
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| I'm also growing Pritchards Scarlet Topper, which is a cross between Marglobe and something, but the blurb says it grows pretty big then stops, so like a rambunctious determinant. |
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| My tomato seedlings are visiting the greenhouse this afternoon. It is still 72F in there right now but I'll have to rescue the little darlings here in a few minutes because . . . I am NOT turning the furnace on in there just yet! It is nice to see Azura's posts, again. Steve |
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