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Suckers

bigpinks
9 years ago

First week of July I started 10 in suckers that I had babied in wet potting soil in large size Styrofoam cups since late June, Put these in quasi 5-1-1 mix and they set tomatoes after maybe 3 weeks. One was red/yellow bi color that set 5 large tomatoes almost in the same place and none since. I did pick one yesterday that needs maybe a couple days on the kitchen counter. @nd plant was Cherokee Purple and it has about ten fruit top to bottom and one is about ready to eat..maybe a 12 oz fruit. Third plant is Bear Claw(pink) and it too has maybe a dozen fruit spaced from top to bottom but none ripe. All three plants have early blight about halfway up or a little more and I suspect that there was some started on the three plants I pulled these suckers from but it could have been air spread. I thought the time frame would be interesting to some of the posters. Its an easy way to have a few late season tomatoes where blight is a bad problem.

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