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How long is the practical tomato season in southern California?
Posted by pennypond USDA 10 Sunset 21 CA
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jll0306(9/ Sunset 18/High Desert)Updated My Frost Free season extends from 15 Apil to 21 November,and I usually plant out early and extra early tomatoes around the first of April and then again the first of August. You should be harvesting tomatoes long after mine quit. ...
Tomatoes - mine are tiny, help
Posted by dogperson1975
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missingtheobvious(Blue Ridge 7a)Updated gary, I was funning you back. I wanted to add more metaphors, but couldn't think of any.
what's eating it
Posted by clairdo2(3)
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missingtheobvious(Blue Ridge 7a)Updated In my experience they often come in fours. So wherever you find one, look extra hard in that vicinity for his nasty siblings.
My Tomato Staking
Posted by behlgarden(9)
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terrybullUpdated looks good! looks like spiderman came by.;)
Please help!!
Posted by new_b_gardener(8a)
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natal(Louisiana 8b)Updated I had a lot early in the season. I cut off some of the leaves and then ignored the rest. Still had a great harvest.
Tomato woes
Posted by laurmela
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Djole(6)Updated Sucker myth is an old legend based on the belief of ancient Greeks that suckers (also known as additional growing tips, side shoots, and many other names) SUCK and draw energy from the plant, thus disrupting the energy balance in ...
some tomato plants not setting fruit
Posted by Cocogirl123
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missingtheobvious(Blue Ridge 7a)Updated Consider the DTM of each variety (Days To Maturity -- not from the time seeds are sown, but from the time you plant out): Fourth of July -- 49 DTM Bush Early Girl -- 65 DTM Goliath -- 65-85 DTM (no consistency) Momotaro -- 74 DTM ...
Soil Test in Tomato Bed: Question
Posted by garystpaul(4)
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SneakyP86(7B)Updated Maybe its just something as simple as the a difference in the fertilizers your using. My neighbor put his plants in the ground about the same time as me but a lot of his plants are about 8' while mine are around 6'. He is using a ...
Diatomaceous earth failure
Posted by dfw_gardener(7b)
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dirtguy50 SW MO z6a(6a)Updated DFW, when do you apply it? It works very well but it isn't an insecticide.
after the harvest... diseases!
Posted by raistlyn
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carolyn137(z4/5 NY)Updated No, they aren't heading for the grave. Your plants aren't old enough to be showing old age, as it were, when some of the bottom leaves normally turn yellow so I would think that it was due to the constant rain you referred to. Yes...
Excessive heat permanently stopping tomatoes setting fruit
Posted by knoxvillegardener(7a)
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dfw_gardener(7b)Updated Last year, after 70 straight days of 100+ degree temps, the super sweet 100s I nursed through produced hundreds of fruit once the heat broke. I also pulled over 40 hornworms off of those 12 plants. That a hard frost came through a...
Sun Gold is sickly (pics)
Posted by tomatotomata
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Djole(6)Updated Don't decrease N, just increase P. In theory and experienced practice one can use different ratios fertilizers at different stages of tomato growth to give it exactly what it needs at given time. Another thing that is important to...
white fly how to prep. soil for next yr.
Posted by nerak(6)
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garystpaul(4)Updated "Grow healthy plants and you will have few if any whitefly problems except late in the season when the tomato plants are stressed." This, alas, is not the case. Whiteflies can occur anytime in the season and, at least in...
cherry tomatoes instead of roma
Posted by ashley12106
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behlgarden(9)Updated All the more reason to start plants from your own seeds, its cheaper, and around May here in So Cal you dont even need green house, simply put seeds in the tomato bed and they take off.
Bottom branches
Posted by taras49(6)
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taras49(6)Updated Thank you;
Possible incompatibility between different tomatillo cultivars
Posted by WonderWeasel
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WonderWeaselUpdated Thanks for all of the info, everybody! According to the Purdue articles, any cultivar should be fine for pollination. I'll just have to wait and see!
Odd tomatoes
Posted by 1psychotic(8)
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terrybullUpdated "I think the same reasoning applies to catfacing." NO! the catfacing is pollination during cooler temps.
Fermenting information
Posted by noss(Zone 9a Lafayette, LA)
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missingtheobvious(Blue Ridge 7a)Updated Like larryw, I often eat the meat of the tomato and save the seeds. Consequently, the amount of tomato and water in each batch varies quite a bit, and not each batch ferments at the same rate. And I tend to save seeds in fits and ...
Big Boy tomatoes stopped growing
Posted by Blaby
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BlabyUpdated Thanks Dave & Carolyn. After looking at pictures, I may have planted Bush Big Boy tomatoes. I just surprised that there hasn't been any new growth in at least 3 weeks.
Aeroponics Grown Tomato Anomaly
Posted by imperium2335
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cole_robbie(6)Updated 30 degrees Celsius is 86 Fahrenheit. That is WAY too hot to keep a reservoir. I'm surprised the plants are still alive. Roots like it cool, not hot. Optimum temp is around 60 degrees F. Your reservoir solution will hold the max am...
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