We Need More Tomato Plant Pictures

[SpookyShoe]

The Carol Chyko's Big Paste is droopy all right...the plant looks "exhausted." : )

Originally Posted by audrey17

Seriously, Carol Chyko’s Big Paste is really weird looking!
I know some tomato plants have “wispy/droopy” growth habits, but this plant kinda weirds me out (especially at night!)
It’s also the 1st plant that I’ve had produce more than 1 or 2 fused blossoms...I usually cull the 1 or 2 that I see on a plant—but after the 5th one on this plant I just let them go!

[https://www.flickr.com/gp/149775938@N08/8ToP0B

Ok, I’m done sharing my CCBP weirded-outness & have also shared a pic of my sweet little Tasmanian Chocolate’s 1st fruit to set, and Lithium Sunset’s 1st 2 fruit to set (This plant is beast! And is blooming like crazy)!

https://www.flickr.com/gp/149775938@N08/250Bd1

...can someone tell me why all pics that I tried to upload from my iPhone all appeared sideways/upside down? Drives me nuts!!

Isn’t that annoying! I have a kludgy workaround...I’ll send it to you.
- Joyce

[Tomzhawaii]

I wanted to see if I could get a straight picture.
Big Cheef, Yolo pepper & UH cauilflower.

[peebee]

Testing pic upload from phone...

[peebee]

Now that I know this works, I'll post the pic on a new posting to explain it.

[SpookyShoe]

Originally Posted by peebee

Testing pic upload from phone...

One plant has rugose leaves and the other has potato leaves.

[xellos99]

9 sungold, 7 gardeners delight, 2 mountain magic, 3 red alert and a bunch of runner beans. And a heater on a thermostat with frost protection because like hell im waiting for last chance of frost to pass. Already have 6 open flowers.

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[peebee]

Originally Posted by SpookyShoe

One plant has rugose leaves and the other has potato leaves.

Bingo Spooky, quick eyes. I'll post in General Discussion soon.

[Harry Cabluck]

Here's 11 tomato plants shown on May 8, 2019, in Austin, Texas. Lots of blossoms, but fruit has yet to set. Probably attributable to wet weather. Also a closeup of one cluster.

Harry, your garden layout is just great.

So sorry about the bloom drop. Very frustrating.

[SpookyShoe]

Second plant to have ripe fruit, just after Sun Sugar.

Congrats Spooky!

[GoDawgs]

Last week the tomatoes got transplanted to their buckets and yesterday the cages were put on. Last year it was a double decker affair with one cage slipped over the whole pot and a second cage stacked on top and tied to the bottom cage. This is last year:




This year there are 15 tomato plants instead of nine and we don't have enough cages to double up on them again without buying another whole roll of fencing. So I adjusted the cages, making them smaller so they fit inside the buckets. If the tomatoes get too tall I'll just top them. Only 'Juliet' (down at the far end) gets a double decker cage with stake because she'll fill the whole darned thing. These are the nine by the house this year along with dill and an eggplant:





The five tomatoes down in the garden are caged like that too. In both locations there are poles running through the cages with the cages tied to the poles. The poles are tied to each other and to the pallets, making the whole shebang one unit that won't blow over. I'm contemplating letting the three tomatillos at the far end of the pallet line just go sprawling. Or maybe a cage? Any suggestions on that?

The only time I grew tomatillos I let them sprawl; they were very good at it.

[GoDawgs]

Originally Posted by PlainJane

The only time I grew tomatillos I let them sprawl; they were very good at it.

Uh oh............

Guess I'll be wading through and tip toeing around tomatillo branches.