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Wed, Aug 27, 14 at 14:56
| 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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| bigpinks, is there any question in your post ? |
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- Posted by PupillaCharites 9a (My Page) on Thu, Aug 28, 14 at 23:26
| Doesn't sound like there's a question, but it sounds like a job well done and I'll ask: Are you saying the 10 younger plants that are now bearing showed signs of the Early Blight on the lower leaves when you took the cutting from high up, or did you notice if the "mother" plants were disease free at the time you took the cuttings? |
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| Not positive but am pretty sure the mother plants had blight started down low when I pulled the suckers. I might grow the late ones under lights next yr but I really think the that the disease here in the Ohio River Valley is almost unavoidable after July 1 because its in the air. I could be wrong I guess. But anyway the three plants set large tomatoes before the blight appeared and the fruit kept growing. Two of the plants didn't set additional fruit after the blight was halfway up but the pink one is still setting little fruit. Pretty sure I will pick 15 nice tomatoes from these containers and they are of avg size for those cultivars. And then maybe some smaller ones too. There are 26 tomatoes still on and I have picked two 24 oz bi color from the yellow/red plant. Mr Stripey I think. |
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