Huerto Urbano Tijuanense 2016

[MrBig46]

Vladimír[/QUOTE]

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by MrBig46

Carolyn, I sent you only three seeds Salobre, because I only had five original seeds from Baikal. Two seeds I kept with the fact that I will be propagate seeds this year.
I was accidentally spreading into a bed a tomato disease (Verticilium?) and tomato plants at me now look like after bomdardování atomic bomb. Sad look.
Still looks pretty good American hybrids, but part of OP tomatoes ended without me to I finally received some fruit. Thus ended a single plant Salobre, I had.
I have some seeds of Salobre from non packed flowers 2015. If you would be interested, I will send.
Now I am trying possibility of additional all my seeds treatment with sodium hypochlorite, to prevent further spread of the diseases by infected seeds in my garden.
Have a nice day and interesting tennis on TV !
Vladimír

Vladimir,let me get back to you via e-mail so we can work things out.

I'm not sure what you meant Salobre seeds from unpacked flowers in 2015,but we can work that out as well.

I should be able to get back to you and even Tville since on Friday Miscka and my computer man and friend decided that it would be best,for several reasons,to switch to Mozilla for Tville and idig,where I'm the only mod but haven't been able to access the site for several weeks.

I'm here on my original Tville fore-mails and faves,and that's about all.

Wicked storms here yesterday and today, and I check the radar online and turn off the computer when needed.

No,no tennis on TV since I'm not allowed to go down that one step with my walker to the front room,I have a another TV in the backroom,wireless connection to the box in the front room,but I have problems getting it going.

Besides,I have a huge list of things to do , not computer related,and am behind on that.

So I'll get to you when I can. After all,if you send me good stuff I want to do the same back to you.

Thanks again,

Carolyn

[Gerardo]

Quite satisfied with my Walmart purchase of Pennington fertilizer rings at $1 USD per pack, they dissolve completely within minutes of being placed in my 20 gal RGGS reservoirs.

Finally pulled the trigger on emitters, connectors, tubing, and a manual old school timer. While my tubes provide quite a few slots, I need to increase my production. The solution is containers with drip irrigation. The old school timer is so Pops can crank it up himself--digital displays and him do not mix.

Once upon a time, there used to be a strip of land along the southern CA-upper Baja coast that was spared the inland valley desert extremes, not anymore. The extremes continue to encroach, both in summer and winter. All one can do is try to cope.

Although designed for ganja, the set of liquid fertilizers in #417, has led to very impressive fruit set for peppers, especially the Baby Ajís that came with Orange Jazz.

Which reminds me, earlier this month I was at a Sunday market and had 4 Ají plants for sale, each with at least 30-40 pods. Two were sold, a third was traded-bartered (the word in Spanish for this rocks, and can be very useful, trueque, just like it reads "tru-E-ke"), for a whole free range organic chicken.

From the fourth plant I chose about 30, boiled them for 10 mins w 2 shallots, peeled skins, deveined/seeded, placed in processor, added olive oil, smoked salt, pepper, 1 garlic clove, squeezed 1 large yellow lemon and 1 orange both from the backyard, blended and then rubbed onto chicken, baked. Texture was perfect, skin too. Next time I'm gonna finish it off on the grill, and throw in some Pimiento de Padron into the mix. Thanks for the bonus Baby Ají seeds Fred H.

PLANTS
ZLUTA in #421 is dead. Gonna use that mix for something else.

Many plants culled this week to make room for the newcomers.

I have 20 + seedlings ready for transplant, and I just potted up 150+ not so little guys. Most of these will also have a permanent home.

As stated before, people around here love the purple-blacks. It seems every time I drop these seeds, I smirk in honor of The Great Enabler, as his bountiful love for black tomatoes has been well documented.

Really looking forward to:

Noire Charbonneuse
Lavender Lake-Sirenevoe Ozero
Dark Italian
Midnight in Moscow
Speckled Roman
Pruden's Purple
SPAIN varieties (mil gracias Vlad, Carolyn, y a mi pariente en Las Baleares!)
Copper River and Malachite B (destined for tomato jam)
Paw Paw
Hearts: Andreie, Arad's, Mom's, Sheryl's P, Anna M, Iraqi, Belarusian, Huge Lemon.
Margaret Curtain
Winsall
Kornesevsije

Tasted more Chef's Choice Orange and they turned out pretty good, so did Momotaro. The water restricted Odoriko continue to blow everyone away, those little golf balls pack a mean punch.

SOTW and Cowlick's continue to impress, as does Crnkovic Y.

[Ricky Shaw]

Some of the best reports amigo. Hands down.

There's snake oil in the ganja fert field, but I'm with you on the effectiveness of many of those type products. A lot of research into micro-nutrients and a focus on minimal salts, as mother plants are kept for many months.

Interested in how the Iraqi does. I'd like to do a red or pink heart next year, but something with tolerance to the dry heat. Orange Russian #117 is putting out nice sets, but what a fright that plant looks with curled leaves and a sickly silvery appearance.

I love that Crnkovic Yugoslavian, my new best favorite. A perfect balance of flavor, tolerance, and growth habit for this Colorado container garden.

[ginger2778]

Awesome report Gerardo.

[Gerardo]

Thanks M and RS, for the seeds too!

I'll be saving seeds from the hearts.

OR117 is a mess, when I culled it I felt like R.J. MacReady. The taste, when all cylinders are firing, is top notch, same with Crnkovic Y.

[carolyn137]

You know me well enough to know that I probably would make a few comments,and so I shall


Noire Charbonneuse
Lavender Lake-Sirenevoe Ozero
Dark Italian
Midnight in Moscow
Speckled Roman
Pruden's Purple

SPAIN varieties (mil gracias Vlad, Carolyn, y a mi pariente en Las Baleares!) You forgot Ilex. Ah yes,I had to look up Las Balerares,viz Mallorca,got it,and also home of Rafa Nadal the tennis player.

Copper River and Malachite B (destined for tomato jam)
Paw Paw, from Randy Sine,another gold/red bicolor,Randy probably stll SSE lists the others he got from Spud Raney

Hearts: Andreie, Arad's, Mom's, Sheryl's P, Anna M, Iraqi, and I'm still waiting for what you have re hearts before I can send you yet more hearts.

Belarusian,I'm not sure what you have b/c

http://tatianastomatobase.com/wiki/Belarusian_Early

And the original name for the orange is actually Orange-1 which I've grown.Saw Belarusian at a website,they had changed the name from Orange-1 to Belarusian to indicate something rare.

Huge Lemon.. I have it as Gigant Limonnij,don't know results yet

Margaret Curtain
Winsall

Kornesevsije, I know well

http://tatianastomatobase.com/wiki/Kornesevsije

One of the many varieties that 4 of us got from Norbert in France after he asked us to trade with him ,sent to each of us in 1992 the ones that each of us chose, and X referenced to each so we'd get unique varieties. And many of those are still popular today.

Tasted more Chef's Choice Orange and they turned out pretty good, so did Momotaro. The water restricted Odoriko continue to blow everyone away, those little golf balls pack a mean punch.

SOTW and Cowlick's continue to impress, as does Crnkovic Y.

How I love

http://tatianastomatobase.com/wiki/Crnkovic_Yugoslavian

The other one Yasha brought back for me was called Yasha Yugoslavian and was a heart. Yasha was head of the computer Dept where I last taught and his wife was a pediatrician.

Carolyn, who hopes some of the above helps,as to background info.

[Gerardo]

Glad to hear your endorsements, all the info helps. I'll send the hearts update.

Pretty sure it's this one:
http://tatianastomatobase.com/wiki/Belarusian_Heart

and here:
http://tatianastomatobase.com/wiki/Huge_Lemon_Oxheart

Crnkovic Y is silky smooth, just like The Zohan says. Great growth habit, and even when given a severe haircut, the reloaded version puts out fruit that's just as big as the initial fruits.

Crnkovic Yugoslavian was given an invitation to the club months ago, roster includes: Cosmonaut Volkov, Zamorano, SOTW, Anna Maria's and Fresa, Odoriko, Cowlick's, Everett's R, Gribovsky, Mikhalych, Koroleva, Copper River, Terhune, Rosella Purple, Lucky Cross, Faworyt, ISPL, Daniel Burson, Pit Viper and Shamrock.



I wish I could include GGWT due to looks and taste, however, it does not like my heat here. Grows like a high jumper. Did better in a stand alone container, on the tubes it was split city. I hope it does better in the fall.

[Gerardo]

Plants all perked up with the dissolved fertilizer rings,
especially the cucumbers. Must have been a little hungry.

From the last few days: Cowlick's, SOTW, Chef's Choice O,
Momotaro, Zarca, C Volkov, Odoriko, Crnkovic Y, GGWT,
Cheste and lots of Gribovsky; plus a few runt cucumbers.

harvest 8 17 2016 s.jpg

[Gerardo]

I made a list and just started checking things off, before I knew it the day was over.

Neem/DE on everyone.

Changed reservoirs on my tubes, they all have 27 gallons.

Moved and leveled 3 tubes.

Culled over 30 plants, and potted up replacements. Dropped more cucumber seeds.

Moved, pruned, and tied about 20 containers with 2 plants each at the 2nd/3rd cluster.

Dumped out around 50 containers and added 2 cu ft of chicken manure to start the solarization process.

Cleaned, cleaned, cleaned, containers, tying material, stakes.

Worked over about a cubic meter of mix in preparation for tomorrow.

Applied tea drench to all new containers.

A good day.

Here's the reward, Sweet Success and 3 relatively large Cheste:

sweet succ y cheste S.jpg

[Salsacharley]

Yeah, but what did you do in your spare time?

[Gerardo]

Originally Posted by Salsacharley

Yeah, but what did you do in your spare time?

Electrolyte solution to the rescue.

[Cole_Robbie]

My favorite way to eat Sweet Success is to smear a slice with cream cheese, then drizzle with Sriracha chili sauce. I hope you like them as much as I did.

[Gerardo]

Originally Posted by Cole_Robbie

My favorite way to eat Sweet Success is to smear a slice with cream cheese, then drizzle with Sriracha chili sauce. I hope you like them as much as I did.

I sure am, what a great req, thanks again. And while the Siracha sounds spot on, cheese and I had a non-amicable divorce a couple of decades ago, and the fight that ended it all took place on Mulberry St.

They use cheese on everything down here.

The one that's worth the troubles is called "quesillo" and they use it on street Tortas in Mexico City. I'll gladly blow up for that one anytime.

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by Gerardo

I sure am, what a great req, thanks again. And while the Siracha sounds spot on, cheese and I had a non-amicable divorce a couple of decades ago, and the fight that ended it all took place on Mulberry St.

They use cheese on everything down here.

The one that's worth the troubles is called "quesillo" and they use it on street Tortas in Mexico City. I'll gladly blow up for that one anytime.

Are you talking about the Oaxacan type cheese I love that stuff.
Worth