ct, ma, ri, ny are your tomatoes late?

[dice]

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[tjg911]

dice what's the photo about? posted in wrong thread?

[FILMNET]

My plants just turned 70 days in ground, still green, a few cherries.

[wmontanez]

I got 2 roma, 6 bloody butcher and about 16 chernyi marv. I got few more ripening this week. BUT I did cut the tops on those plants after 4th of july to get them to ripe since I had extra plants.

[SunnyK]

Originally Posted by cloz

I've picked 2 Bloody Butchers, 1 Siberian and about 2 dozen Sungolds. Not much for 83 tomato plants. I have a few nice big Granny's Hearts that I am hoping will start turning soon. My plants are between 5' and 8' tall but fruit set has not been good on many of the plants. I have 2 Hoy that are over 7' tall and huge with a grand total of 3 fruits set between the 2 of them.They have a lot of flowers near the top now and I am hoping for some more fruit set.
I have never had healthier tomato plants ("knock on wood"), but I am just a little disappointed with the number of fruit set at this time.

I have had the same issues here myself. I am hoping that the plants will get a second wind for a late harvest this season.

[dice]

dice what's the photo about?

Those are the stars of the film Fried Green Tomatoes.

(You can take it two ways: a satire of the wet, cool spring
followed by extreme heat, "frying the green tomatoes on the vine",
or "hey, down here we have this kind of heat *every* year". There
was also the joke about the disappearing lake. In your case it would
have simply evaporated this summer.)

[FILMNET]

That a funny one, we finally got a small storm last afternoon here wind and rain for 30 mins. My 18 plants have so much string on them to help the green fruits, the wind did nothing to the plants. Some plants have 10 or more green fruits, even 2 plants are under 30inch high. I have cut 3 cherries huge plants off on the tops now.O My, i have never had plants like these before.

[tnpeppers]

...still no 'blush' on my Blush tomatoes, either...slow going this year.

[FILMNET]

Off to see the wizard! i let you know what he or she says!!

[bcday]

It's been a long wait because of the lousy spring weather and the late planting out. But I picked the first ripe full-size one today, a 2 lb. Gregori's Altai that was planted out the first week of June and is right on schedule for its DTM. And there is a large Cherokee Purple starting to color up nicely.

Also on the menu, new potatoes. That wasn't part of my plan for today, but the dog dug them up while I was getting the Gregori's.

[cleo88]

So far in MA, I've picked half a dozen Moravsky Div's, two Dankos, three Sophie's Choice and a handful of Donskoi which may be a sport of the real Donskoi since they are all miniature hearts rather than the big ones I am supposed to be getting.

I had a two blushing Linnie's Oxheart, a Pink Sweet and a Granny Cantrell but the squirrels got them - since I have never tasted any of them, I was especially ★★★★ed off that they tasted them first. I am now picking at first blush and ripening with the bananas on my countertop (although now the squirrels are eating some completely green fruit - my only hope is that there is enough to go around for all the humans and squirrels that like tomatoes).

It feels like things are a little late here but I can't really tell because I'm so impatient. I think we were late because of a bad patch of weather in July and now we are catching up because it's been so hot and dry.

[tnpeppers]

I had plenty of Stupice by July 4th last year. This year? Plants are LOADED, but all are green...

[FILMNET]

Picked 3 Carbon fruits from 30inch high plant they were in the bottom on the ground,put this all in a bag with a apple, Snow white cherry, Juane Flame , Black Cherry, Hawaiian Currant, Sungold
Day 73 now?
I have 4 different plants with Huge fruits now as soon as any color is on then i pick them now

these fruits are from last week now are bigger, i bet the plants has 6 over 1 lb each Brads Black OxHeart

[KevinCT]

got my first tomato out of the garden today, oddly it was an enormous Red Brandywine, it beat all my early varieties, the early girls, Jetstars,Ramapos, Rutgers, Sungolds, supersweets

[tjg911]

i have only eaten sun gold (maybe 20), yellow prue (2), cherokee purple (3, 1 mostly rotted), wes (2 and both were lousy) and sarnowski's polish plum (3). bull's heart (5) is sitting on table, just picked the 1st prue (3) yesterday and normally i'd have been eating them a week even 2 weeks ago and tony's italian have yet to even turn color. sun gold, cherokee purple, wes and prue are all later than normal. yellow prue, sarnowski's polish plum, bull's heart and tony's italian are all new this year.

normally by now i am eating like a mad man to keep up with production and presently i'm lucky is i can eat 2 or 3 a week!

tom