Cuttings of Josh's Pink Lemonade

bejustice · May 22, 2014

We hope they turn out pink.

We are using 50 trays. We are misting every 2 hours for five minutes, but are fixing to dial it back with the new roots. We estimate about 6000 plants. We started the process a week ago. We hope to cycle through like this until conditions get unfavorable or we run out of space to plant.

DonnaMarieNJ · May 22, 2014

WOW!

newatthiskat · May 25, 2014

what are you going to do with all those?

bejustice · May 26, 2014

Plant them for seed. We had one plant make an interesting pink cherry last season. We collected seeds from it, got 800 plants and are now propagating from the 800. We are not sure if they are going to turn out pink or not. Josh said it was really sweet. We are hoping it has a Brix reading of
10 or above.
We took the shade cloth off yesterday, turned the frequency of the misters to 8 hours, the duration up to 10 minutes. We use a small electric heater, and an off the shelf Orbit controller for the misters. It is an 18' Turner Greenhouse, a North Carolina product. Once tuned it can be really productive, fun to build as well. We put a brick foundation on ours to give it some extra height. We need to redo the bubble wrap, it is about time.

gardenfrog · May 27, 2014

Hope this surpasses your expectations! : )

lexusnexus · June 1, 2014

Is this for a commercial venture? Very interesting.

Dan

bejustice · June 2, 2014

Yep, we hope it turns into one. There is not another pink like it. We are still unsure if the plants will make pinks. The plants are different than the white cherry it came from. They are bigger, a bit more blue. They set fruit before the white cherries also. Josh was the only one that ate one off of the original plant last season, early blight was an issue and the plant was succumbing to it when he found them. He said they were very sweet. We managed to save about a dozen tomatoes off if it, and got about 800 seeds. We planted almost all of them and have been taking cuttings like they will turn out pink.

Sun City Linda · June 2, 2014

Good luck! What we wont do for a new tomato! I hope your efforts are rewarded.

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newatthiskat Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: texas Posts: 1,451	what are you going to do with all those?

May 26, 2014	#4
bejustice Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: Timberlake, nc Posts: 50	Plant them for seed. We had one plant make an interesting pink cherry last season. We collected seeds from it, got 800 plants and are now propagating from the 800. We are not sure if they are going to turn out pink or not. Josh said it was really sweet. We are hoping it has a Brix reading of 10 or above. We took the shade cloth off yesterday, turned the frequency of the misters to 8 hours, the duration up to 10 minutes. We use a small electric heater, and an off the shelf Orbit controller for the misters. It is an 18' Turner Greenhouse, a North Carolina product. Once tuned it can be really productive, fun to build as well. We put a brick foundation on ours to give it some extra height. We need to redo the bubble wrap, it is about time.

May 27, 2014	#5
gardenfrog Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Shelbyville, IN Posts: 343	Hope this surpasses your expectations! : )

June 2, 2014	#7
bejustice Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: Timberlake, nc Posts: 50	Yep, we hope it turns into one. There is not another pink like it. We are still unsure if the plants will make pinks. The plants are different than the white cherry it came from. They are bigger, a bit more blue. They set fruit before the white cherries also. Josh was the only one that ate one off of the original plant last season, early blight was an issue and the plant was succumbing to it when he found them. He said they were very sweet. We managed to save about a dozen tomatoes off if it, and got about 800 seeds. We planted almost all of them and have been taking cuttings like they will turn out pink.

June 2, 2014	#8
Sun City Linda Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: SoCal Inland Posts: 2,705	Good luck! What we wont do for a new tomato! I hope your efforts are rewarded.