September 11, 2015 | #136 |
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Barb,
I didnt end up ordering the eb's yet. If i order 6 will they stack them and pack them together or will it be 6 different boxes? I'm not home to recieve them so I'm trying to decide if i should have them shipped to my mom's. Ginny |
September 11, 2015 | #137 | |
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Everything I do is following EB instructions. |
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Going to be fun tomorrow. One girl is bringing Dunkin stuff, and I made my chicken salad, and enormous peanut butter chocolate chunk cookies. And fresh starfruit, strawberries, blueberries, and bananas with lunch. One of my friends last year said, " I work for food" |
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September 12, 2015 | #139 | |
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700 Tomatoes! That perks my interest. Did you save seeds again and now have F3 or F4 seeds? Any guess what they were or maybe it is best not to guess. What was taste like and best for cooking, canning, fresh eating? Number of days until first fruit? Thanks, Larry Last edited by Zone9b; September 12, 2015 at 04:53 PM. |
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I saved tons of F3 seeds. I did grow out one F3 plant the fall after this plant grew but it was really wet fall season and i had a lot of other plants and just lost interest in it. The main thing this plant was good for was sharing tons of tomatoes with our neighbors who loved them. They were average on taste... The original tomato that the seed came from was a vine ripe hybrid from walmart that was sold on the vine and was a little smaller than a baseball. I would be happy to send you some F3 seeds if you want to try it. Below are some more pictures but they just dont do it justice. It kep producing and producing. If you could see between all the leaves the tomatoes were really heavy in there and you can see all the one on the lower branches. It looked like a grape vine more than a tomato plant... lol. Sorry, had some problems posting photos and deleted the sideways pictures. Ginny Quote:
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September 12, 2015 | #141 |
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Ginny,
Ya, I'd love to have a few seeds. I'll see if I can get it to produce anything before it gets too cold here and I will save most of the seeds for the spring and give it a better try. That is one impressive looking tomato plant. I don't think I ever saw a tomato vine with so many tomatoes on it. I am almost finished getting my tomato transplants into the compost. Should finish tomorrow. Thanks so much. Larry Last edited by Zone9b; September 12, 2015 at 09:07 PM. |
September 12, 2015 | #142 |
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I believe the new eb instructions say 1lb of dolomite. I drop a tsp of calcium nitrate down the tube every Sunday morning
Im debating what fungicide/pesticide approach..... Daconil and then Daconil + Spinsosad mixed the next week < Spinosad can be only used 6x or Marshas 1/2 Liquid copper + bt every 7 days < caterpillars wouldn't stand a chance too bad bt cannot be mixed with daconil at least from my research Caterpillars cause serious damage..... Last edited by Imthechuck; September 12, 2015 at 08:16 PM. |
September 12, 2015 | #143 | |
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My vote is go with Marshas!
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September 12, 2015 | #144 | |
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Since it is seed from a comercially bred tomato, it has a long wait from the time the tomatoes get to full green size until they blush. Long hang time i guess it's called. They dont mature in 55-60 days like a lot of tomatoes that size. I did not specifically record the dates but i would say it was more like 80 days. I can check based on my picture history (i took pics at every stage and have dates of the files) and let you know. Also my friend grew the same F2 plants in the ground and he doesn't fertilize, water, etc like I do and he got a lot of tomatoes but no where near what i got. So I do think environment had a little to do with it. I fertilized with tomato tone side dressed about once every two to three weeks and also supplemented with texas tomato food in the small water reservoir when the plant was monster size. Because this plant was in a walmart pot with about a 1 gallon reservoir, we watered it between 2-4 times a day at the end... lol. It even fell over twice in high winds and we just propped it back up, tied some branches up and it kept going. We are on the intracoastal waterway and some of those spring and summer storms bring some really strong gusts. But my point is for the most part we babied it and gave it all the water and food it needed and pruned extra lower leaves to encourage it to keep all those blossoms it was generating and turn them into tomatoes. It had long beautiful trusses with 12 or more tomatoes on them. Also I read somewhere but dont know if its true that the generations after F2 might not be as vigorous as the F1 and F2. Anyways, not trying to discourage you from growing it... just filling in some details... :-) I loved this plant. Everyone that saw it in person was amazed by it. Ginny Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk |
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September 13, 2015 | #145 |
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I finally have my first tomato on the fall plants. Sugar Drop is the first one to produce and it has two tiny tomatoes. The plants are all looking good in spite of all the rain we are having. I have found a couple of army worms on the plants. It is so hard to spray when there is so much rain so I am checking the leaves daily to get rid of any I see.
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September 13, 2015 | #147 |
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Congrats, Kay, I am about 6 weeks behind you. I got some Orange Russian 117 seeds in the mail yesterday, and sowed 6 of them approx 5 minutes later.
I googled it, it is spectacularly gorgeous, and on Nicky's blog she said it had an incredible flavor and a lot of productin. If all goes well, I'll have lots of seeds available. |
September 13, 2015 | #148 |
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I started my seeds on July 13th. I hope more plants start setting soon. I worry about getting a cold snap early like last year. Is the Orange Russian the bicolor heart?
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September 13, 2015 | #149 |
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Yes, this photo is taking from Nicky's blog. Thank you Nicky.
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September 13, 2015 | #150 |
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Sorry about the mess, but here is a photo of yesterday's transplants. They will stay on the patio in intensive care through at least tomorrow. A stalled cold front over Tampa is causing severe storms. Tomorrow I will move them into shade to start getting hardened off, but take them in by about 1, unless the forecast changes. Still too young and tender for a torrential downpour. It's a delicate balancing act because they need more light than the patio can provide.
I also have to put some yellow sticky traps out, whiteflies can get right through the screen. Aaaannnndddd..... Ella dog smells the fish in the fertilizer, so she was sniffing around ALot! This year, with her, is going to be interesting. |
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