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Also you may want to start with tomato varieties that offer you the best chance of success. This may include heat set varieties such as Tycoon, Skyway 687 and there are others. Also, there are a number of other issues as to whether you grow in containers, raised beds or soil and what you use as a grow medium: soil, compost, etc. Nematodes will be an issue to deal with if you grow in the soil or your grow medium comes in contact with the soil, however many hybrid tomato varieties are nematode resistant. Oh, and yes I think I could even grow tomatoes in Leon, Nicaragua but it wouldn't be easy. PS: Also, you may find that you can even grow Cherry Tomatoes in the summer and they should be very easy in the winter. You may get additional information by Googling something like: "Growing tomatoes in the Yucatan". The Yucatan is also on approximately the same latitude as Puerto Rico but I'm guessing Puerto Rico is a bit better place to grow tomatoes and peppers as far as temperature goes. Larry Last edited by Zone9b; August 9, 2016 at 03:07 PM. |
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August 9, 2016 | #1487 |
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I always like to refer to information from colleges that support the extension office services. Usually if you type the college name and the subject you want you can get the document you need. But when I typed UPRM vegetable planting guides and some other things I only pulled up a few documents and not what I was trying to find. I did stumble across a Farmers Almanac article that has planting guides for different cities in Puerto Rico. It might be a place to start.
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August 9, 2016 | #1488 | |
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August 9, 2016 | #1489 | |
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Did you give the tool available at almanac.com a try. I plugged in San Juan, PR but months given seem a lot more usable in NJ or some such place. For example for San Juan and Tomatoes it shows: to plant indoors mid Mar to Mid May to plant outdoors mid May to end of June to harvest 1st of June through the end of Oct. I'm going to guess that normally there isn't much tomato picking going on in Puerto Rico in the middle of Summer. That's why I'd go for picking tomatoes in Puerto Rico during the middle of Winter like in South Florida. But of course there is always the chance that somehow I am using the Almanac's tool incorrectly. I have to give the tool a shot for Central Florida with 2 seasons, that should give it's algorithmic brain a test. I did enter Orlando, FL and it seems to understand there are 2 seasons for Tomatoes. Larry Last edited by Zone9b; August 9, 2016 at 04:48 PM. |
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August 9, 2016 | #1490 |
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I did pick a few cities and scrolled down to look at when they said to plant tomato seeds, set them out and then the harvest period. They are all about a month later than I would plant and I was surprised to not see 2 seasons for tomatoes like we have. I also looked at their weather history for the month of July and it seems like the heat and humidity is very much like what we have.
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August 9, 2016 | #1491 | |
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August 9, 2016 | #1492 | |
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When do you transplant most of your tomato plants into the garden for the fall season? Last year I put most of mine in around September 15th. This year they will be ready a bit earlier. I have a few heat set plants that are ready and I may transplant them this weekend. The rest I was thinking about the end of first week in September, but I would like to know what you or others are doing. I'm not hung up on the dates I put them in, it is just when I got to it. Maybe earlier or later would be better. I'd like to hear what you are doing and when others transplant their tomatoes as well. Larry Last edited by Zone9b; August 9, 2016 at 09:02 PM. |
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August 9, 2016 | #1493 | |
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August 9, 2016 | #1494 | |
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August 10, 2016 | #1495 |
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August 10, 2016 | #1496 | |
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I'm starting a few seeds while I'm away on 8/20 but will sow the rest when I get back prior to Sept 1. I do the final transplants in October. Last year my first fruit set was around October 15, 60 days after sowing. It was Garden Gem. I want to try to keep at least half my plants going for one long season like Marsha does. This makes me think, why the rush sowing so early. I also want to grow less plants but there are so many I want to try. How many container plants is everyone growing? |
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August 10, 2016 | #1497 | |
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My main reason for not being able to grow the same plants all winter is the RV Park fills up in winter and there is nothing but shade and with the humidity the dew on the plants stays wet for hours on end almost every day. If I put them out closer to the water in the back yard where there is full sun, the relentless howling winds damage them too much no matter how well they are caged or staked or tied. The blossoms get blown to bits. The bay across from us has the wind effect of a large lake. So I do better growing two seasons and starting a second round of new plants in December to set out in February as the winter plants get too much leaf disease by about January. Ginny |
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August 10, 2016 | #1498 |
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August 10, 2016 | #1499 |
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Barb,
I'm growing about 20 plants myself and then neighbors grow about another 10 to 15 that I set up for them. How many are you growing? What are your faves to repeat and what are new exciting ones? Ginny |
August 10, 2016 | #1500 |
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Larry, I plant my tomatoes around mid August. I use to wait until September but we do get occasional freezes here so I like to get a head start to get as many tomatoes as possible. As long as I have them properly hardened off I don't worry about the heat because that is not an issue until they are blooming.
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