General discussion regarding the techniques and methods used to successfully grow tomato plants in containers.
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October 23, 2009 | #1 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Lorne, Australia
Posts: 188
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Help with Plant size in Container?
This might be an odd question and it may also have little to do with Tomato spicies and more to do with Container size and/or training, but i have a selection of Tomatos in Containers and each Container will be placed on the steps leading up to my deck (best position for sunlight).
Subsequently i'd like to place the taller growing spices at the bottom steps and the shorter at the top, so they grow to more or less the same over all level. All Tomatoes are in 24" pots, spicies are as follows; Black Russian (Heirloom) Green Zebra (Heirloom) Apollo Grosse Lisse Sweet Bite I have already noticed that the Sweet Bite are very aggressive growers and it seems the Heirlooms are slow growers? (first time growing Heirlooms, so any advice appreciated on growth rate) Just to give you a better visual, the bottom step will allow 8ft of growing height until it reaches the deck and the last step i wish to use will allow about 4ft. 6 steps in between and they are all going to be trained up the same 5" open weave netting or flat metal tomato cage material. Hope that wasn't a mouthful for everyone Thanks. P.S. i have since found this on another site All you can go by is the general rule of thumb - indeterminate varieties average 6-8 feet but can go as high as 10 or even more if you want to stake them that high and keep them going. Determinate varieties average 3-4 feet, some will make 5 feet. So if height space is a problem then stick with determinates or plan to let the indeterminates just flop over at the top of whatever support you can use. Hope this helps. Only i am not sure where my Tomatos fit in that, ie, which are Indeterminate and which are Determinate Last edited by Salty_Dog; October 23, 2009 at 06:56 AM. |
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