What's your healthiest plant? - Page 2

honu · September 7, 2006

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Ramapo F4: Even more vigorously growing new foliage and setting new fruit. This tomato won't quit.

Papa Vic, I am impressed w/ Ramapo, especially with all the tomato growing challenges we have here. Healthy, sets fruit in my humid rainy garden, and has good flavor -- what more can I ask.

obispo45 · September 8, 2006

We had a terrible hail storm here on Thu 8/24/06, 90% of my in-town crop(tomato, peppers,beans etc) was wiped out as well as my house's roof and truck totalled out by the insurance company. Wound up just hacking down and pulling out many plants. Prior to the storm the healthiest tomato plants for me this year were:

*Togo Trefele...received seed thru SSE. Tasty, prolific, impervious to local weather...INCLUDING HAIL!!! Three days later after the damaged stuff was pruned out and damaged fruit made into salsa it was business as usual. "Business" prior to the hail was exceptionally good..LOL.

*Grushovka...Russian/former Eastern Bloc cultivar. Had some issues with the fruit cracking at the height of summer heat and rains, don't think it loves the super humid stuff. However its producing and growing like gangbusters again after taking a pretty good beating.

*Speckled Roman, German Red Strawberry and Gezahnte Tomate Buhrer-Keel all were wonderful up to the aforementioned hail event as well. Some others are/were good too but those would be my healthiest overall in 06'.

greggf · September 8, 2006

I've yanked everything already. Earliest I've ever had to, except for a Late Blight year at another location.

All that's left is a determinate Northern Exposure in an earthbox, which I dragged into my studio on the ground floor. Maybe the controlled environment will ripen non-mealy tomatoes. It worked one autumn.

=gregg=

MsCowpea · September 8, 2006

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I am impressed w/ Ramapo

hi honu, did you figure out something for the tomato bug?

Season starts again now and bracing myself for its reoccurence.

honu · September 8, 2006

Hi MsCowpea,
Tomato bugs are still there, but that problem now seems small compared to the severe damage done by a recent attack of red spider mites (so much for their ability to control mites)...most of my other plants are now going downhill because of that, but Ramapo is one of the few still healthy.
Good luck on your new crop!

Tomstrees · September 8, 2006

My best plants here in NJ
in Sept. :
Limbaughs Potato Top
Neves Azorean Red
Red Bradywine (TGS)

~ Tom

Andrey_BY · September 8, 2006

Wild Rose (Dikaya Roza)
Purple Calabash
Koenigsberg
Tarasenko 6
Yubileyny Tarasenko
Zarya

And Cherokee Green is indeed the healthiest plant in my greenhouses, but it is very late this year somehow. Only 3 fruits and they are still not ripe after 105 days after transplant.

September 8, 2006	#21
Tomstrees Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: NJ Bayshore Posts: 3,848	My best plants here in NJ in Sept. : Limbaughs Potato Top Neves Azorean Red Red Bradywine (TGS) ~ Tom __________________ My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view. ~ H. Fred Ale

September 8, 2006	#22
Andrey_BY Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Minsk, Belarus, Eastern Europe (Zone 4a) Posts: 2,278	Wild Rose (Dikaya Roza) Purple Calabash Koenigsberg Tarasenko 6 Yubileyny Tarasenko Zarya And Cherokee Green is indeed the healthiest plant in my greenhouses, but it is very late this year somehow. Only 3 fruits and they are still not ripe after 105 days after transplant. __________________ 1 kg=2.2 lb , 1 m=39,37 in , 1 oz=28.35 g , 1 ft=30.48 cm , 1 lb= 0,4536 kg , 1 in=2.54 cm , 1 l = 0.26 gallon , 0 C=32 F Andrey a.k.a. TOMATODOR

September 8, 2006	#17
obispo45 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: SE Minnesota Zone 4.51a Posts: 139	We had a terrible hail storm here on Thu 8/24/06, 90% of my in-town crop(tomato, peppers,beans etc) was wiped out as well as my house's roof and truck totalled out by the insurance company. Wound up just hacking down and pulling out many plants. Prior to the storm the healthiest tomato plants for me this year were: Togo Trefele...received seed thru SSE. Tasty, prolific, impervious to local weather...INCLUDING HAIL!!! Three days later after the damaged stuff was pruned out and damaged fruit made into salsa it was business as usual. "Business" prior to the hail was exceptionally good..LOL. Grushovka...Russian/former Eastern Bloc cultivar. Had some issues with the fruit cracking at the height of summer heat and rains, don't think it loves the super humid stuff. However its producing and growing like gangbusters again after taking a pretty good beating. *Speckled Roman, German Red Strawberry and Gezahnte Tomate Buhrer-Keel all were wonderful up to the aforementioned hail event as well. Some others are/were good too but those would be my healthiest overall in 06'.

September 8, 2006	#18
greggf Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Boonville, NY Posts: 419	I've yanked everything already. Earliest I've ever had to, except for a Late Blight year at another location. All that's left is a determinate Northern Exposure in an earthbox, which I dragged into my studio on the ground floor. Maybe the controlled environment will ripen non-mealy tomatoes. It worked one autumn. =gregg=

September 8, 2006	#20
honu Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Hawaii Posts: 270	Hi MsCowpea, Tomato bugs are still there, but that problem now seems small compared to the severe damage done by a recent attack of red spider mites (so much for their ability to control mites)...most of my other plants are now going downhill because of that, but Ramapo is one of the few still healthy. Good luck on your new crop!