Huerto Urbano Tijuanense 2016

[nancyruhl]

Thanks for those great evaluations. Keep 'em coming. And congrats on your wild success with your RGGS system.

[Gerardo]

Originally Posted by heirloomtomaguy

Keep em comin im lovin it.

Excelente.

[Gerardo]

Originally Posted by nancyruhl

Thanks for those great evaluations. Keep 'em coming. And congrats on your wild success with your RGGS system.

It's doing great thus far, I recommend it. Water consumption is less. Flavor doesn't seem to suffer, although I will continue to do 1/2 of my crop in containers to "dry farm" for concentrated flavor on the ones amenable to it.

Try at least one tube this season and see what you think.

[Hunt-Grow-Cook]

Gerardo any thing come from WBF secret sauce?

[Gerardo]

Some of the container plants and the "newer" tubes are starting to climb. I've been thinking long and hard on the support system, and it'll be a combination of a couple of methods.

I manufactured "posts" that'll be placed at the end of the tubes. The components were two 5 gal water containers, a 90 lb sack of quickrete (the only purchase for 4.50), long abandoned 6 7 8 irons and a tall pitching wedge, two long curtain rods (inserted into the water container handle hole).

Drilled small holes in the curtain rod at 15 cm intervals. I then used 50 lb mono to tighten things up, with one loop of braided line as backup. These serve as guides for me to weave a larger diameter twine-sissal along the fishing line.

It's worked well with the larger plants on the 1st tube, so hoping it can be adapted into a Florida weave. I'll take some pics when I get a new camera.

Elph officialy died yesterday, RIP you tough little camera. It survived a night of being chewed on by two pit mixes, a 3 story fall, multiple waist high falls, and thousands of pics. You shall be missed.

Met52 is working well on the whiteflies. DE is controlling most others. Haven't used Neem or Daconil in a while, this eve they get a dose.

[Gerardo]

Originally Posted by Hunt-Grow-Cook

Gerardo any thing come from WBF secret sauce?

Negative Ghostrider. Zero germ on them puppies. Fare better for you I hope?

[Gerardo]

Let the games begin...

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[Hunt-Grow-Cook]

Originally Posted by Gerardo

Negative Ghostrider. Zero germ on them puppies. Fare better for you I hope?

Ive got 4 that came up, dont remember how many I sowed. They are just extremely spindly and frail looking, was curious if that's the norm. Lol. 2 are noticeably shorter as well, but they all have long wispy lateral branches coming off it. Still haven't decided if I'm going to plant them. I'm so freaking behind as it is, and with limited space I want to save room for all the proven or potential varieties. I might move forward with two of them for the hell of it and give the other two away. I'll try and get some pictures this weekend.

[Tracydr]

Originally Posted by Gerardo

It stops almost everyone in their tracks. In combo with Neem it can curtail the cycle of a lot of the bad guys. Comes off easy too.

Collateral damage can be significant.

How do you make the DE spray? I've always just dusted it.


Never mind,just realized I missed your explanation.

[carolyn137]

When I was a wee tyke,which I once was,my daddy would yell at me when we picked tomatoes at the farm if I left any stems on the fruits,since when put in baskets for the trip back to the barn where we sorted them,they would poke holes in the other fruits.

My question being,with your pictures above,the ripe fruits in the baskets,do you leave the stems on just for pretty pictures and then remove them,or do you never have more than one layer of fruits so it doesn't matter?

Carolyn, just wondering if the eagle has landed yet in San Diego.

[Gerardo]

Originally Posted by carolyn137

When I was a wee tyke,which I once was,my daddy would yell at me when we picked tomatoes at the farm if I left any stems on the fruits,since when put in baskets for the trip back to the barn where we sorted them,they would poke holes in the other fruits.

My question being,with your pictures above,the ripe fruits in the baskets,do you leave the stems on just for pretty pictures and then remove them,or do you never have more than one layer of fruits so it doesn't matter?

Carolyn, just wondering if the eagle has landed yet in San Diego.

It probably already landed, I just haven't been up there to check. They are usually in one layer only. I've been saving short Costco boxes specifically for this purpose, so indeed, for pretty stems and that one the vine psychological trick.

[PureHarvest]

Nice to see the colors! You must fly out of bed in the morning.
Good stuff G

[Gerardo]

Originally Posted by PureHarvest

Nice to see the colors! You must fly out of bed in the morning.
Good stuff G

Colors = happiness

[Gerardo]

Things are going well.

The rear guard.
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BHN-871, and a Sudduth saying hello too
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Dora
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Fred's TD. Last of these for at least a month.
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Altai
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Larisa
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Novikov G
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Rebelski
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Latest dwarfs
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Twin Sungold plants starting to stretch
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Monica, very prolific
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[barefootgardener]

Why, hello back BHN and Suddath!

Keep up the good work Gerardo! Your babies look good due to all the hard work and nurturing you do for them!

Ginny