Bluesman´s growings - Page 2

Dis2cruise · January 4, 2015

Beautiful!

Bluesman · January 4, 2015

Bower, please do advice me with the problem of choosing the right varieties. I might know something about chiligrowing but even though the toms are the same family Solanaceae I find them more difficult to grow.

More picturepollution;

The 10 liter bucket is harvested from the plant you see. Just as if untouched.
This Naga morich produced over 10kg of crop.

No wonder I want to produce something I can consume the whole crop during the wintertime. Try to eat 10kg of a nuclear hot chili in a year.

The room in our house basement. My wife didn´t like when the wallpaint started to peel off. So this place for the seedlings is off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs_ZdkrDpkM

So I had a bluesy day.

bower · January 4, 2015

Your peppers are truly awesome!

I grow peppers too, and their foliage and stems are much tougher than tomatoes. This is the problem with tomatoes... tenderness of stems and foliage, for sure.

Some varieties which are good producers in cool weather - not bothered by a few cool days, keep setting and growing in 60 F days, nights down to 48 F are okay or occasionally lower, even down to 45 F the young plants don't sustain damage afaict are these:
In the small reds, Moravsky Div and Stupice are reliable indeterminates - MDiv is a better fruit I think but both are great producers. Kimberley is pretty good too, but smaller fruit, and Alaska is a determinate that did well outdoors, very tasty.
In the black slicers, Chernomor (PL) especially is a reliable setter in cool weather. Amazon Chocolate PL was also an early setter in cold spring here, and Black Early.
In the big pinks, Yaponskiy Krab is probably the most cold tolerant I've seen so far, very nice early set and not late to ripen either. Pervaya Lyubov is earlier but not as tolerant of cold stress IME and not as productive overall.
In orange, Zolotoe Serdtse and Orange-1 are both early, very cold stress tolerant, and heavy producers - these are determinate or semi-determinate plants. They really seem designed to grow in cool springs.

Those are just a few that I've tried so far and made the grade for cool weather production. They are all great for salsa and such, and decent for fresh eating. I'm suire there are lots more, it's why I keep trying new varieties! Try plenty of different ones, and sooner or later you'll find the ones that adapt really well to your conditions.

Salsacharley · January 4, 2015

Your plants love your music. You should grow some blue tomatoes like Indigo Apple or J&L Midnight Select and see how they like the blues.

sdambr · January 5, 2015

Wow, just wow! Amazing pictures.
Thanks

Bluesman · January 5, 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UhKrRGxXuE

Next summer the same with tomatoes.

Bluesman · February 25, 2015

My tomato season has started by sowing 30 varieties and tomorrow I´ll sow almost the same amount.
Finally started to clean up the greenhouse mess and prepare it for the season to come.
Normally we have weather at its coldest; -20-30C is not unusual but today the temp was +4C. Melts the snow off.

Bluesman · May 18, 2015

Bluesman · May 18, 2015

Moved the nursery from the garage to the greenhouse.

The rear 10m2 is floorheated.

The tom seedlings brgin to look like they wil start growing.

Morchella elata.

bower · May 18, 2015

I see you're ready for spring, Bluesman!

Morchella... how lucky for you.

The king... he will never be forgotten.

Worth1 · May 18, 2015

Looks great Bluesman.

Here I have found you at one of your finest hours.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltCb...=RDltCbR5C6XTw

JamesL · May 18, 2015

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bluesman

I mourned him as well. The Thrill is truly gone...

heirloomtomaguy · May 18, 2015

Quote:

Originally Posted by Worth1

Looks great Bluesman.

Here I have found you at one of your finest hours.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltCb...=RDltCbR5C6XTw

Love it. I know just how you feel i too have eaten one of those nasty peppers a time or two.

Bluesman · June 9, 2015

Here we are, the toms are growing like they´re nuts!

Fisheye view.

Outside the GH I´ve got a temporary shelter for the soil toms. In the greenhhouse there are only hydroponic toms.

Looks pretty awful structure but it works.

Jaltomata procumbens flower.

Nice flowers.

From the gh.

bower · June 10, 2015

Tomatoes look happy in the greenhouse and ready to fruit.

Your temporary shelter is as good (or better) than mine... I'm tired of covering the 'extras' every time we get a cold night.. tempted to plant them out today and be done wtih it. It's been mainly sunny for a couple of weeks and I think the soil is warm already. By past experience, if you plant when there are a couple of warm days forecast, the plants will get over the transplant stress quickly, and then they don't mind a cool one when it comes.

January 5, 2015	#21
Bluesman Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2014 Location: Finland Posts: 47	Tour de chilis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UhKrRGxXuE Next summer the same with tomatoes.

May 18, 2015	#23
Bluesman Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2014 Location: Finland Posts: 47	R.I.P. B.B.King

January 4, 2015	#16
Dis2cruise Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2015 Location: Ny Posts: 1	Beautiful!

January 4, 2015	#18
bower Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Newfoundland, Canada Posts: 6,794	Your peppers are truly awesome! I grow peppers too, and their foliage and stems are much tougher than tomatoes. This is the problem with tomatoes... tenderness of stems and foliage, for sure. Some varieties which are good producers in cool weather - not bothered by a few cool days, keep setting and growing in 60 F days, nights down to 48 F are okay or occasionally lower, even down to 45 F the young plants don't sustain damage afaict are these: In the small reds, Moravsky Div and Stupice are reliable indeterminates - MDiv is a better fruit I think but both are great producers. Kimberley is pretty good too, but smaller fruit, and Alaska is a determinate that did well outdoors, very tasty. In the black slicers, Chernomor (PL) especially is a reliable setter in cool weather. Amazon Chocolate PL was also an early setter in cold spring here, and Black Early. In the big pinks, Yaponskiy Krab is probably the most cold tolerant I've seen so far, very nice early set and not late to ripen either. Pervaya Lyubov is earlier but not as tolerant of cold stress IME and not as productive overall. In orange, Zolotoe Serdtse and Orange-1 are both early, very cold stress tolerant, and heavy producers - these are determinate or semi-determinate plants. They really seem designed to grow in cool springs. Those are just a few that I've tried so far and made the grade for cool weather production. They are all great for salsa and such, and decent for fresh eating. I'm suire there are lots more, it's why I keep trying new varieties! Try plenty of different ones, and sooner or later you'll find the ones that adapt really well to your conditions.

January 4, 2015	#19
Salsacharley Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2013 Location: New Mexico Posts: 2,052	Your plants love your music. You should grow some blue tomatoes like Indigo Apple or J&L Midnight Select and see how they like the blues.

January 5, 2015	#20
sdambr Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2014 Location: Long Island, NY Posts: 421	Wow, just wow! Amazing pictures. Thanks

February 25, 2015	#22
Bluesman Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2014 Location: Finland Posts: 47	My tomato season has started by sowing 30 varieties and tomorrow I´ll sow almost the same amount. Finally started to clean up the greenhouse mess and prepare it for the season to come. Normally we have weather at its coldest; -20-30C is not unusual but today the temp was +4C. Melts the snow off.

May 18, 2015	#26
Worth1 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Den of Drunken Fools Posts: 38,539	Looks great Bluesman. Here I have found you at one of your finest hours. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltCb...=RDltCbR5C6XTw

June 9, 2015	#29
Bluesman Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2014 Location: Finland Posts: 47	Here we are, the toms are growing like they´re nuts! Fisheye view. Outside the GH I´ve got a temporary shelter for the soil toms. In the greenhhouse there are only hydroponic toms. Looks pretty awful structure but it works. Jaltomata procumbens flower. Nice flowers. From the gh.

June 10, 2015	#30
bower Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Newfoundland, Canada Posts: 6,794	Tomatoes look happy in the greenhouse and ready to fruit. Your temporary shelter is as good (or better) than mine... I'm tired of covering the 'extras' every time we get a cold night.. tempted to plant them out today and be done wtih it. It's been mainly sunny for a couple of weeks and I think the soil is warm already. By past experience, if you plant when there are a couple of warm days forecast, the plants will get over the transplant stress quickly, and then they don't mind a cool one when it comes.