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Guidelines for Emasculating and Pollinating Tomatoes
Posted by lubadub(5B PA)
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chewy2uUpdated Thank You Lubadub, Here is more on seeds and how to make crosses. however, I do not know how to leave the url under a click. so you will have to do a google search for this topic. It is available online for free. you can download ...
I can't believe what a difference powdered evaporated milk made.
Posted by jon_z6b
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chewy2uUpdated I am all Organic. and if I need something to save the crop, I lose the crop and choose to be all Organic and just do not grow that crop in the future. I see nothing wrong with losing a crop to not poisoning myself the land and all...
Maya and Sion Airdee Classic
Posted by sheltieche
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sheltiecheUpdated My friends selections of 2006 and 2009 years, grown by me this year were about a week earlier than Maya's and all of them were what I call early midseason. My friend gave some of her F2 seedlings to another friend who got her sele...
Has anyone grown these varieties for TYLCV resistance
Posted by corrie22
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fusion_powerUpdated If you read the blurbs, it is only intermediate resistance, not immunity. You MUST protect the plants to some degree or they will always go down with TYLC. There are some varieties available now that have more stacked resistance g...
Can't save threads to My Clippings.
Posted by daniel_nyc(7a)
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daniel_nyc(7a)Updated > You can't save whole threads, only posts in the threads. Yes, you save POSTS, but when you click on clippingâ title it will open the ENTIRE page - with ALL the posts, not only the one you saved. Which I like very much. I m...
Flowering in late October (zone 7a) [Long Island, NY]
Posted by daniel_nyc(7a)
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seysonn(8a WA/HZ 1)Updated Tomato plants, being genetically a perennial, do not have a sensor for seasons. I started pinching all buds/flowers starting lat August on my plants. Because I new that those buds are not going to make it. I was right. My plants a...
Pick The Best Tomatoe in each Category
Posted by greenthumbzdude
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lkzz(7b)Updated 1. Best tasting - Black Krim 2. Most productive - Large Red Cherry 3. Earliest producer - Large Red Cherry 4. Largest - German Johnson 5. Ugliest - N/A 6. Tallest (plant) - Large Red Cherry 7. Most prone to disease - Large Red Che...
Side Shoot (suckers) and vigor
Posted by PupillaCharites(FL 9a)
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bigpinksUpdated I grew 3 plants in containers started from suckers. I think the parent plants maybe alredy had a little blight at the bottom when I harvested the suckers and so the new plants did blight out sorta early. I pulled 10-12in suckers a...
What is this?
Posted by lubadub(5B PA)
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carolyn137(z4/5 NY)Updated Marv, I've looked at the picture several times and just cannot be sure of what I'm seeing since the magnification is not high enough to see the interior of the spots I see. And there may be more than one foliage infection as I see...
My indoor tomatoes
Posted by CaraRose
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delaware(Z7 DE)Updated Your tomatoes look wonderful. You should be proud! I'm just getting set up to grow greens and tomatoes under CFL lights. I'm hoping you can answer two burning questions I have. My fantasy is that I can grow successions of tomatoes...
Looking for Heirloom Gold Cherry
Posted by seysonn(8a WA/HZ 1)
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labradors_gwUpdated It seems like a good idea IF any of them were incredibly tasty, but it's disappointing that they don't list the varieties. Supposing you really really liked one and wanted to save and share the seeds with friends. You wouldn't kno...
Best hybrids for sauce
Posted by mike.t
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seysonn(8a WA/HZ 1)Updated I don't grow anything just for canning (Sauce, paste, whole). At the peak when we have abundant, I make some plain spaghetti sauce , with whatever there is. After washing, removing skin, core, most of seeds, Cut them to pieces, he...
Harvesting Tomatoes question
Posted by prairiemoon2 z6 MA
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seysonn(8a WA/HZ 1)Updated Here is my take: == Those with faintest suggestion of color will ripen inside ; on the counter, in box, in basement. warmer temperature (~70F) is better. == Then there those that have no hint of color but are at mature size. They ...
F1 stability/reliability question
Posted by nugrdnnut(6a n-c WA)
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seysonn(8a WA/HZ 1)Updated It bothers me when your opinions are not factual but wrong. Opinion is "opinion" . does not have to be "factual". And I don't claim mine are factual. yet you never show any interest in changing your "opini...
tomatoes on the vines
Posted by davids10 z7a nv.
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ediej1209(5 N Central OH)Updated Aww, man, we are DONE for the year except maybe a dinner or two with fried greenies as a side dish, if we can find enough still hanging on not too damaged. I'm so jealous!! Enjoy!!! Edie
35 degrees tonight should I worry
Posted by thebutcher(6b (Philadelphia area))
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thebutcher(6b (Philadelphia area))Updated Thanks Sey It turned out that the temp dropped to around 33-34 (from a weather station) and the only damage I noticed was the cherry tomato plant which was the tallest showed signs of damage but not ruined as you can see in the to...
Help i have no idea what im doing!
Posted by MammaWolf
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PupillaCharites(FL 9a)Updated MammaWolf, here we go again, looks like I'm going to have 18 total blossoms on this one. It's the same truss, one and two weeks after my earlier pics. So far, 9 tomatoes, 4 blossoms, and 5 buds. Ours both began flowering on the sa...
Burpee's new Supersauce
Posted by gr8heather(6b)
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mike.tUpdated What large heirlooms did you learn about? I might try SuperSauce next year but everything we've grown for the past 5 years have been heirlooms.
In Praise of Moravsky Div Tomato
Posted by woodcutter2008
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carolyn137(z4/5 NY)Updated One more thing: I grew both Stupice and Bloody Butcher. To me their fruits are almost identical in size and shape (lobed instead of round). &&&&&& If both were lobed and not round you either had the wrong s...
Anyone have a blight busting planting method?
Posted by buttercupia(zone4 IA)
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seysonn(8a WA/HZ 1)Updated On the diseas contol: I have come to the understanding that PREVENTION is the key. Having said that I believe in systematic, scheduled spraying with your fungicide , from the time you plant. I personally use both Daconil (syntheti...
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