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Thrill Is Gone, Baby !
Posted by seysonn(8a WA/HZ 1)
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DeebyUpdated I admit that right now I don't miss my ragged, yellowed tomato plants. Everything looks good, feels good and boy have I ever learned not to plant different tomatoes in one giant deep tub-they crossed or whatever and some reliable ...
Have You Saved Your Seeds ?
Posted by seysonn(8a WA/HZ 1)
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drew51 SE MI Z5b/6a(5b/6a)Updated I saved seeds earlier in the year, so not saving anymore except a few late peppers. I use both oxiclean and fermenting. I usually use oxiclean when time is limited. Both methods work fine for me. I still have many tomatoes to proc...
Starting EARLIER in 2015
Posted by daniel_nyc(7a)
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sharonrossyUpdated Linda thanks. I have this vision of the WOW collapsing in on my plants. I will take all this into consideration. Great info about artificial lights and cool temps. Thanks a million! Sharon
Tomatos in So GA-Help!
Posted by risa1(8)
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seysonn(8a WA/HZ 1)Updated In zone 8 GA, there is no chance. I know this, I have lived in ATL area for a number of years.Even your FFD delay till the end of November, You will have less than 50 days. here is your data: Last Frost Date (2014): 3/23 First Fro...
Did anyone have luck with tomatoes in shadier conditions?
Posted by atrox(7- N. Atlanta, GA)
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jwr6404(8B Wa)Updated Excluding this year I believe that less than 6 hours per day would be normal in my PNW area.
Protecting tomatoes from cold weather - A few questions
Posted by survivalgardener
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PupillaCharites(FL 9a)Updated You can save seeds, but it depends how green, usually a 70%+ mature tomato works and less doesn't. Just ripen like you are doing and then cut through the tomato you want to use for seed with a sharp knife. If the seeds get cut rat...
Tomatoes Grafting Question?
Posted by GrowThisNow(9)
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PupillaCharites(FL 9a)Updated socalgal, if you live in a dry climate it ios probably much harder, but here in Florida it is certainly possible to do especially in times of high humidity ... if you can be creative to support it and protect it from the Sun. Not ...
Different strains of Green Zebra?
Posted by bart1(6/7 Northern VA)
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bart1(6/7 Northern VA)Updated Thanks all. From looking at some of the google images, I see most shots are the round, "ping pong ball" shaped ones that I got this year, but there were a few shots of the more squat shaped ones too. I hope it was becaus...
have anyone grown upside down tomatoes?
Posted by keyki5
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antipodean(10b)Updated i've done it a couple of times, some success but yes there are problems as alluded to above. Wouldn't do i again unless there was a space issue. One problem is when watering the water runs out the bottom and all over the plant mak...
Rooting Tomato Cuttings Now For Spring Planting?
Posted by lola8325 zone5KS(zone 5)
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grubby_AZ Tucson Z9Updated On the surface of it, six months of biding time before spring is a really long time, but you'll never know unless you try. Maybe if they get too leggy you could take cuttings from the cuttings! Sounds like a 'speriment to me. Dope...
mulches, cover crops
Posted by sheltieche
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carolyn137(z4/5 NY)Updated Carolyn, it is interesting thought about soil being frozen to kill pathogens... but OTOH, the ever nasty C diff lives in the gut peacefully until opportunity arises... so if there is some small nasties that do overwinter in the so...
Tomatillo Problems
Posted by evoar
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seysonn(8a WA/HZ 1)Updated This is an old thread (2006). I also posted a comment in 2011, mentioning that my SINGLE tomatillo plant did fine previous year but my 3 plant are not fruiting, as of the end of June. Once again, there are posts written by the gar...
Anthracnose on stored tomatoes
Posted by danzeb(7a long island)
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Prachi(6b (NJ))Updated I'd love to know the answer to this one as well.
Arkansas Traveler
Posted by PupillaCharites(FL 9a)
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dbarron(z7_Arkansas)Updated I'm afraid I didn't know Joe's personal life that well. I was only a lowly undergraduate who watered his tomatoes for a year or so (lol). I do remember the Ozark Pink, but never liked it as well, I always felt my tomatoes should b...
Seeds from my volunteer's F1 Yellow Cherry - What to do?
Posted by llebetkin
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najanajaUpdated an easy solution: keep your current seeds. try one seed next year. if not successful, try another one the following year. if you have 10% seeds from cross pollination, you chance of having one bad seed is 10% and two bad seeds is ...
Looking for Tomato Seeds
Posted by tom9047
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seysonn(8a WA/HZ 1)Updated Tom, I have never come even close to growing any of those in your list and even most of the names are not familiar to me. But may I ask, what specifics about those that are of interest to you ?
Early Tomato Varieties
Posted by Bruneau
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seysonn(8a WA/HZ 1)Updated REPORT CARD: my 2014 EARLY ones, were as follows: --- Bloody Butcher: Wont repeat. It produced the very first ripe tomato. BUT the fruit size was too small, not that prolific, aggressive vine, PL prone to diseases (mildew ? mold ?...
How's the weather ?
Posted by daniel_nyc(7a)
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daniel_nyc(7a)Updated The cherries LOOOOVE being in the small hoop house...
suggestion for a costoluto-like variety
Posted by najanaja
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PupillaCharites(FL 9a)Updated Personally, I have a space saved for one of these three varieties, the first two are supposed to do ok right till 1st freeze, and Rio Grande is listed as a determinate but witnesses say differently: Rio Grande (semi-det., very pro...
Tiny Tomatoes
Posted by judyj(Z5 CO)
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judyj(Z5 CO)Updated Well then, I think next year we'll get two or three plants. We'll let one grow normally and prune the other two in two separate ways. That'll let me see how it works. These tiny tomatoes don't appear to have a main stem like the o...
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