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Shorties

Posted by The_Grub Sydney (My Page) on
Wed, Nov 16, 05 at 22:03

Young New Big Dwarf left with Mountain Princess right and Sophie's Choice is behind out of frame.

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Yeh, so wot. Roll.


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RE: Shorties

Hey Grub,

You've been having perfect temps. and sunny days. Let's see another shot of those babies now. Any fruit set yet?


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RE: Shorties

Too right about the weather, Brucy.

Kimberly is the first to set fruit. About three or four on a truss of opening flowers numbering six or eight, with more trusses of flowers opening. I have since read it's small fruited, like Stupice. Some PL leaves seem a tad yellow, as though hit by EB. Maybe it doesn't like the humidity?

New Big Dwarf has a huge, and I do mean huge, double flower setting a fruit and other open flowers. Ditto for Sophie's Choice, which is flowering very nicely. Mountain Princess is just showing flowers and I expect them to open in coming days. Totem, a tiny shorty, has some open flowers too.

Russian Red is slow, but I can see flowers are coming. Victorian Dwarf was only potted out the other day, but it is coming along nicely. I have doubles of most of the above in pots. Plus a Jaune Negib that was too healthy to not let live. And a couple of chillies. A two 7ft Sweet 100s in pots (sorry for that). That's it for pots.

In the patch, German Red Strawberry, Matt's Wild, Polish (Earl) and Red Brandywine are the first to show flowers, but I noted flowers are coming on just about everything. The plants are powering along but for those in one patch that's got me stumped. A cutworm sliced my one and only Reisentraube Yellow (possible X from Carolyn) at the stem yesterday. Damn things show no mercy.

Will take a pic soon as I can and post it here. Take care, :)Grub.


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