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April 2, 2016 | #16 |
Tomatovillian™
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It will be quite a while for us. If I can get ripe ones before July I'll be doing good. But I did spend the day potting up this years crop. 125 plants in solo cups after culling 3 puny looking ones. Gonna start giving them away next week so I'll have room to start melons/cucumbers. I will plant out 50-60 myself. Thanks to the kind members of this site & several seed purchases I have 30 different varieties growing. Feels good to work in the plants/dirt.
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April 8, 2016 | #17 |
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aunt's ruby german green
kellogg's breakfast cherries: lemon drop, matt's wild, a single super snow white. Last edited by maxjohnson; April 8, 2016 at 09:53 PM. |
April 8, 2016 | #18 |
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They look fantastic. You're really making me kick myself for being too busy to start my tomatoes on time.
What's under the lemon drops in the cherry tomato basket? |
April 8, 2016 | #19 |
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Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Indialantic, Florida
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They look great. These were the ones you grew in the ground?
I LOVE Kelloggs Breakfast; my favorite tomato of all time but didn't even grow them this spring. I'm trying to find other substitutes for Kelloggs since my plants got huge before I ever got fruit. Can you post a picture of your plants as they look now? How did Barry's Crazy Cherry do? |
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April 8, 2016 | #21 | |
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The container tomatoes are doing good and suffer less from blight, it seems to be a good way to avoid the diseases. Yellow Stuffer (along the metal fence) is my favorite right now, it seems to be very vigorous and resistant. For in the soil, the most resistant continued to be Black Cherry, with no fertilizing I've harvest almost 10lbs and it's still going, and it's the best tasting. Also Garden Peach is doing good. The Barry's Crazy Cherry is taking an long time to ripe, I haven't tasted any. It's about 75days from transplant, it may be due to the season and being shaded, maybe it prefer a lot of sun. The way it look, it should not be pruned. Last edited by maxjohnson; April 8, 2016 at 08:09 PM. |
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April 8, 2016 | #22 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Oct 2015
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kellogg's breakfast
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April 8, 2016 | #23 |
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Everything looks fantastic.
Worth |
April 8, 2016 | #24 |
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Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Indialantic, Florida
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Was it good?
Your plants look good; still lots of fruit. I gave up planting tomatoes in the raised beds. I'm just using the raised beds as holding areas. I have an earthbox with a cucumber plant in one raised bed' it's on huge cardboard, over plastic) and some in root pouches are on raised grills. Nothing touches the ground. |
April 13, 2016 | #25 |
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It seems for the Barry's Crazy Cherry to taste good you need to let them well ripe to opaque yellow, then they taste as good as the Lemon Drop. Otherwise the taste is very average and somewhat watery. They seem to have good resistant as a redeeming point. I don't think I will grow them much again.
Aunt's Ruby German Green start to taste very good once there are pink stripes appearing from the bottom. The red cherries are Parkseed's Nectar. Cost $5 for 10 seeds. They are productive, gets very sweet, over 8 in brix and no acidity, but somewhat flat flavor. Also not very good disease resistant despite claim. Last edited by maxjohnson; April 13, 2016 at 08:06 PM. |
April 13, 2016 | #26 |
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They look fantastic I can't wait for mine to start coming in like that.
Everyone asks me what I am going to do with all of the tomatoes and I tell them I am going to eat them. I get the strangest looks. Little do they know that my breakfast and lunch is eaten out of hand right out of the garden. Worth |
April 13, 2016 | #27 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Plantation, Florida zone 10
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Thats a nice pile of shtouff you got there, Max.
I love Aunt Ruby's GG. Huge and productive, great taste too. |
April 13, 2016 | #28 |
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Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Indialantic, Florida
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The picture with all the colors is beautiful. That is a great harvest. Are your plants still setting fruit?
Is the purple beef stake Cherokee Purple? |
April 14, 2016 | #29 |
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The ones that caught blight no longer set fruits and I clear them to help reduce the diseases, I won't be growing tomato again the same area until next year. My container plants are still going.
Yes they are Cherokee Purple, but I think next year I'll be replacing them with Black Brandywine, which are less productive, but sweeter to me. Last edited by maxjohnson; April 14, 2016 at 01:27 AM. |
April 15, 2016 | #30 |
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Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Illinois, zone 6
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Yes they are Cherokee Purple, but I think next year I'll be replacing them with Black Brandywine, which are less productive, but sweeter to me.
Where did you get your Black Brandywine seed? That variety was awful for me, but it doesn't sound like we had the same thing. |
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