I didn't know of a gallery...should have looked. but hopefully this won't get so long that it would be very slow. Dial-up won't like this thread at all.. :)

More from Florida, here's some ripening fruit after 3, yes THREE frosts in SW Florida this winter. We gotta move SOuth!
Florida 91
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Dr. Carolyn
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Green Zebra
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Talladega
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Tumbling Tom
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PotYard
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Cindeea,

You have Dr. Carolyn's! I am growing these this year and am excited for these and a couple other varieties.

How do those Dr. Carolyn's taste? Give us a review on the taste and anything about those types of plants too....

Great pictures everyone

If this thread eventually gets too long, I can start a Part 2 either here or in the gallery (depending on which gets more traffic).

Oh my gosh, make it stop!! I can't take any more tomato porn! I'm starting to drool

Cindeea,
You have Dr. Carolyn's! I am growing these this year and am excited for these and a couple other varieties.

How do those Dr. Carolyn's taste? Give us a review on the taste and anything about those types of plants too....

Hi Alamo, not sure where Cindee is but she and another Florida gardener turned me on to the Dr. Carolyn's. I grew them this past fall for the first time, didn't take a single picture of them but wish I had. Very productive indeterminate cherry with wonderful taste, the boss (my wife) has demanded I start some for late spring through the summer as she love the taste and it appears to be one of the few cherries we can actually grow here through the summer here.

Tom

catman529 what kind of light is that? what is the setting? i have a shop light over a work table i was thinking i could use that for my seedlings

I'm using a cheap 4' shop light fixture from Walmart. I have 2 of these fixtures and each has 2 GE "Plant & Aquarium" tubes in it. These tubes are supposed to produce light high in reds and blues which plants need to photosynthesize. So far they are working well.

thanks catman, i'm not sure if what I got will work or not.I don't even know the type of tube that is in there. it was there when i moved in. how do i find out?

You probably have a regular cool white tubes; you can use these to grow plants as well. But if you want the P&A tube, just go to Walmart and buy a couple to replace the tubes you already have.

First year growing from seed and I'm having a ball!
Thanks to all that have helped!

Three days from sowing

About a week in

Two weeks old, moved to 10oz cups
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Three days after potting up, really growing well(Ch Purple)
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First feeding today 1/4 strength liquid soluable
Really looking like tomatoes now :)
Sungold
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Red Brandywine three weeks

The setup with Tomatoes and peppers
This is in my unheated garage, I converted a rack in my "Gorilla rack" into my mini growroom :)

This is a great thread!
I am going to try and post weekly pictures

Brian

Here's mine!

Oh wait...I haven't started them yet! :( Talk to me two weeks from now and I'll have something to show you!

Great pics Brian, and jleiwig, I know what it's like waiting to plant seeds..I started mine at the earliest recommended date.

When this thread gets too long I'll start a Part 2, and maybe a Part 3 later in the summer, depending on how popular it gets and how many pictures are posted.

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Update on my tomatoes:

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March 3

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Black Plum, March 4

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Ready to transplant on March 6

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Seedling

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Had to choose 30 seedlings out of about 80 to pot up. All the others had to be...I can't say, because it's too painful.

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Under the grow light.

So far everything looks good! I've sown a couple more varieties late, which will be potted up in a couple weeks.

Catman,
Is this one that you transplanted? I'd be afraid of damaging the roots, or is it just one you had to cull.

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That's a transplant, yes. I know the roots took some stress. But the plants look fine and started growing very soon after they were transplanted. Haven't had any die-offs except for the ones I culled ;)

They sure can take a lot of abuse. When I transplanted from peet pellets, I ripped the netting off along with lots of roots and they did just fine

Here is my 4 week update.
They seem to be doing quite well. Not sure if they are small, large or average for four weeks.
Maybe on the small size as they are growing in cold conditions

Pulled off the shelf to sit in the watering tray

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A shot of the lights from the end

Closeups of a few plants
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rj_hythloday - it looks like you used the plastic egg cartons too? That's what I've used this year and they worked really well.

Here is my lighting setup in the kitchen closet. It stays pretty warm inside since the furnace ducts run through the left corner of the closet. I am afraid my containers may be too wide and not deep enough, however everything else is doing well. Has anyone else used coffee cans to grow in?
Pic link is below.

Here is a link that might be useful:

Are you folks ready??? MY 2009 Tomatoes!

Aren't they LOVELY!

Here are my sungold seedlings, the picture was taken 2 weeks ago.

Same area as before with two more weeks growth

duajones

I can just taste those maters on a BLT hmmmmmmmm Everything is looking great for you. I'm behind on an early plant out due to Mother Nature and Mr/Mrs Stick fingers walking off with all my mature seedlings but I can make more and in doing so they will be produciting maters latter in Late May or early June. Won't catch up with you but atleast we will enjoy maters togetherr in the Summer.

George

Amazing pictures everyone I especially like the super closeups of the babies.

Here are mine as of Wednesday........

lookin nice, Opie. =) I'll prob start takin pics of mine when they grow their 2nd set of leaves. Right now they're all about 2 inches tall & first set is getting to be a good size.

Hello, i am new here...and started my tomatoes about 3 weeks ago, they took a week to germinate, and they still dont have ANY true leaves. after looking at everyone elses tomatoes, i dont understand why they havent gotten any leaves yet?? i did pot-up some of them because they were getting really tall and their little roots were poking through the bottom of the cups (i put them in too small of containers-oops!) they look really healthy, with big cotyldons (spelling?) and strong stems, but i dont think it is because i transplanted them that they dont have leaves, because even the ones still in the little cups dont have anything yet.

my set up: just kept them covered and in a back room (stayed about 70 in there all the time) and once they germinated put them in a sunny window. i know i said that tehy were tall, and i am sure a lot of you are saying well they are leggy because of too little light, but they arent leggy, just too big for the little cups i was using.

p.s. the ones i transplanted are looking really good, dark leaves and thicker stems...i just dont know if they are "behind" or what. kind of frustrating, lol.

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Here is just one shot, my winter tomatoes are coming to an end, but I did find blooms on my spring tomatoes in my garden today YEAAAAA.

Ok I do not know what I am doing wrong, I copied the instructions above, but still all I get are little boxes with a red dot. Can someone please tell me how to get my pictures from flickr to here, I copied the url on the flickr website then pasted it where it says "insert picture here" with img src=http:
//www.flickr.com/photos/13673162@N00/3337363976/
> without the spaces of course. Can some one PLEASE type out a step by step of what I should do. I have managed to post stuff on other forums before, but cannot figure out this one, I can however get links to post so here is my flicker link so you can see what I have so far. "winter tomatoes in the desert"

I'm not sure if flickr is the same as photobucket, which I use

When viewing the thumbnail page, if you scroll over an image, four seperate options drop down beneath the image.
One of them is HTML code.
You simply copy the HTML code, and paste in the text of you message here.
This site is different than most forums I have been on where you click on a image icon in your message box and paste the "diect link"(one of the other three options with photobuckst) and paste it in there

I have seedlings stared from different dates, but this is my batch from 3/1. I just potted them up into these 160z cups yesterday. A few of the varieties were quite leggy, but I potted them all right up to the cots so they have uniform height (for now!).

I have a few plants out in the garden, and I'll post those pics soon. Everything prior to this batch was done without the knowledge that I have gained from reading throughout the past few months, so we'll see how they fare against those that were started sooner in less than ideal conditions. :o)

~RTG

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Up close
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Hopefully these will work!

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sammiek,

You put the URL of the web page and not of the image in your <img> tag. To get the URL of the image, right click on the image and don't copy the URL from the address bar in your browser. Your image URL should end with ".jpg" which is an image extension for the JPEG file type.

Hope this makes some sense...

Transplanted these to conrtainers today. That way i can get the benefits of being outdoors with the ability to come in for frost days.

Looks awesome everyone!

I might start a Pt. 2 of this thread sooner than I was planning...

This tomato picture are them after 3 days of sprouting.

Also, what should I do seing as I over planted them? is there a way to move them or do I have to pluck them?

Here is a link that might be useful:

Same area as before but now we are at the 28 day mark

I don't have any yet but you guys are very serious tomato growers.these photos are really something .

don

These two trays were planted on Feb 28th and are ready to be potted up this weekend.

Rick

Ever determined to have the first ripe tomato on my block I planted this early girl out today. this is very ealry for my zone (7), but I guess I went nuts Notice my home made wall o waters experiment. Lol. if this does not work, at least I will have my early girl bush (in a bucket as noted above) to try to get me that first mater. Talk about obesssion.

i am adding more water and if it even gets close to frost temps I am adding covering via the cage.

thats interesting!!!!

sirdanny, what did you put in those milk jugs to make it black?

Looks like a nice healthy Early Girl to me. :)

Here are few shots of the tomatoes (and few other herbs and vegetables) I have in containers on my south-facing patio in a rooftop apartment in Germany.

The first pic is a partial family photo with granny yellow pear in the middle. She sprouted last october from fruit I had just left to rot. I brought her indoors where she grew very slowly over the winter. At times, it didn't look like she was going to pull through. Obviously, she survived:

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This side of the yellow pear:

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Notice the red-tailed bumble bee! Three of them are buzzing around like clockwork several times a day.

That side of the yellow pear:

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Next picture is of a patio tomato (together with a jalapeno) taken a few days ago before transplanting. Both plants were doing just fine until about two weeks ago: all new shoots and blossoms on the tomato became very weak as soon as the sun was shining. Several kind forum members advised me that my container (12 liters) was much too small and gave some good advice.

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Today after transplanting into a basket (32 liters) lined with mosiqito net:

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If the weather clears up any time soon, I'll hopefully be able to report progress in the near future.

Joe