PNW tomato season

[jwr6404]

Tania
The Nevsky does look nice and I only grow in large pots. I wasn't able to find any info by "googling". Where can I get the seeds?

[Ruth_10]

Tania,
Those all look just great. I wish I could ship you PNWers about 10 F off the top of what we have here. 98 F for a high today and I'm a heat wimp.

[Tania]

Originally Posted by jwr6404

Tania
The Nevsky does look nice and I only grow in large pots. I wasn't able to find any info by "googling". Where can I get the seeds?

Jim,

I am not sure Nevsky seeds are available here in NA, this is a Russian commercial variety I received from Alex (velikipop), and I think he got it from Andrey. Please contact me in the fall, I will be happy to share a few seeds.

[Tania]

Originally Posted by Ruth_10

Tania,
Those all look just great. I wish I could ship you PNWers about 10 F off the top of what we have here. 98 F for a high today and I'm a heat wimp.

Ruth,

I wish you could send us extra 10F+, it is miserable here, today's high was 62F, and same is expected in the next few days. Our 'normal' June average high should be around 71-73F.

Poor cukes started to show sign of stress, and corn refuses to grow, just sits there, hardly 2-3" tall...

WE NEED SUNSHINE!!!

[squibT]

Wow Tania,

Nice tomatoes...mine are just pouting here in Nanaimo...too cool and too much rain. My Mor Lift in the earth boxes are doing good...I think they are going to be monsters. The others are coming along but the Health Kick and Supersonic have stalled a bit. Supersonic has 2 nice tomatoes and lots of flowers but no other fruits coming....(sigh)...maybey too much N...I dont know...I give em a whack every so often but nothing...Guess I will have to wait...hoping for nice weather soon...

squibT

[dice]

Thumping doesn't seem to do much when it is
this cold, but maybe they are actually pollinated
and simply taking a long time to form a visible
fruit. I finally saw a Persimmon fruit forming
(the first flowers have been open on that for
going on 3 weeks).

It looks like first fruits for me are going to be
on the mystery PL plants that came up out of
Market Miracle seeds. My first hunch was that
they are actually Stupice plants (mixed seeds),
but the green fruit are distinctly pointy on the
ends, and I don't know if that is what Stupice is
supposed to look like (I do have a first Stupice
fruit forming on a PL plant that came from an
actual Stupice seed packet, but it is not big
enough yet to compare the shapes of the fruit).

[squibT]

My Health Kick are about the size of a large egg or better and all have pointy ends....wanna pic?

[flying mater]

Arrggghhh!!! Anybody have an ark? I need to load up my maters 2 x 2.

Bill S

[dice]

"wanna pic?"

Thanks. The first of mine are still walnut-sized,
but I'll save this and take another look in a couple of
weeks. The seed vendor for the Market Miracle seeds
does not list Health Kick in their catalog, but that
does not mean they were not growing in the same field
as the Market Miracle plants (one farmer might have seed
production contracts with multiple different seed vendors)
or that the vendor does not have some other variety that
they do sell that looks like that.

[cukes]

What's that bright round thing in the sky?

[keithaxis]

the sun for all of two days..it is supposed to be back into a high of upper 50's by later in week....july 5th....july 5th...july 5th..

[Tania]

I checked out my 'field' tomato plants, and I now see some occasional fruit set here and there, but it is still scarce. Not a lot of flowers coming up either. I think they are stressed up because of the cool weather.

The GH plants are setting fruit much better and growing visibly every day.

Lost about 30% of my cucumber plants due to two very cold nights we had in the last week or so. Bummer. Seriously thinking about re-seeding them hoping the season will be long enough for these to produce

The good news are the melons in the cold frames are looking fine, no losses... Phew!

[keithaxis]

this year has been slow but I remember last year I had a much worse first half of June. I noticed last nights I have small fruit on kimberly and matina and very healthy looking flowers on many others. I think the difference for me was last early june we may have had a lot more moisture with the cold, because I remember my plants looked horrible on June 15 last year but they look real healthy this year just slow, I think all the cloudy nights have kept it warmer at my 700 feet elevation and that keeps it a touch warmer at night, maybe just enought to hold on to the blossoms til fruit set...

I do notice one thing that seems new this year. I have a lot of these little black jumping bugs that are eating little holes all over the tomato plants. I seem to remember them in the early seasons before but not like this...I touched one last night as it looked like a millimeter sized beetle but it jumped...darn things...I think warm weather consistant gets rid of them...

[flying mater]

Keith,

I think I would pullout the soap spray, Safe Soap, and let them have it. or your own home made stuff. Anything that is eating the leaves is a bad thing. I wouldn't wait.

Go get'm tiger, Bill

[velikipop]

Most of my plants look great and have lots of flowers but no fruit set anywhere.

Tania, the plant that you are dehybridizing and gave to me, Tumbler I believe, has had flowers on it for over a month but no fruit. It is very strange. Do you have any idea why.

Lettuce, kale, collard and onions are growing great. Can't wait for the five weeks of summer we will eventually get. I hope!!!