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Old July 12, 2013   #16
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I start with grow then switch to bloom. Nice photos!
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Old July 12, 2013   #17
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Looking good.... I am slowly turning green

(No, I am free from all such base feelings and sincerely happy for you.)

Enjoy your growing success!
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Old July 13, 2013   #18
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Absolutely astounding production success. It's incredible how many tomatoes you're getting from all of these varieties, especially ones only 3ft tall! You've certainly come up with a seriously optimal growing technique. And to think this is taking place in Alaska where the outdoor growing season is so short. Congrats!
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Old July 14, 2013   #19
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I almost hacked this THING/ Mrs Mawell's Big Italian down awhile back, now she is stunning above all others to look at, and may be the best tasting tomato in the house. The few samples I got before the recent setting of tomatoes is all that saved the plant, a strong tomato Brandywine Sudduth's comes to mind when I taste them.
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Old July 15, 2013   #20
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1884 growing along a purlin up by the ceiling, what a vine like plant when suckered, and a nice look at my problem plant
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Old July 15, 2013   #21
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Default Blk Krim Choc. Stripes

Both have done well, the Chocolate Stripes cracked some, before I corrected my watering from panic during the heat spell we had, Blk Krim has yielded well for me. A pic of them growing over the aisle. A pic of Bloody Butcher, a yummy little tomato.
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Old July 15, 2013   #22
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My Caspians are getting back to their beautiful selves, I love the taste, they are huge on average, yield awesome, ugly foilage though.
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Old July 15, 2013   #23
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These little plants are yielding well for me too, and are more like eating fruit than tomato, very yummy tennis ball size fruit .
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Old July 17, 2013   #24
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Default Cherokee Purple & Julia Child's

My Cherokee was Blocking Julia so I trained the top back down, worked great.
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Old July 17, 2013   #25
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Default Blk Pear Blk Prince

Both yield on par with Early Girl and the tomatoes are the same size too. When they are ripe they are almost too sweet, Blk Prince is sweeter of the two. I had to learn to water these right, they crack when over watered, and the BLK Pear is a water sucking beast. I did not prune Blk Pear, it shoots flowers off of suckers right away, needless to say, they yield really well and are pretty when ripe. I grew this Blk Prince in a loop
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Old July 17, 2013   #26
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Something strange here, never seen this before, this tumor looking thing is growing off of several of the tomatoes.
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Old July 18, 2013   #27
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It's out of control, went in with the scissors and removed alot of matter. The tomatoes are looking like star clusters, my PP is approaching a hundred tomatoes, standard ones, so I broke out the rope to secure it in several places. I am waiting a week or so to take a pic.
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Old July 18, 2013   #28
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very nice tomatoes! impressive too!
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Old July 20, 2013   #29
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I think these are pretty, taste good too. Another one I corrected watering for, and the new fruit looks great.
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Old July 27, 2013   #30
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Default Heirloom tomatoes in AK growing like trees

The pathways are getting overgrown, I actually creeped myself out down there the other evening, too many movies. lol Anyway, tomatoes are loading up.
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