Post Office Spoonful Growout Thread - Page 2

Tealeaves · June 30, 2017

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Originally Posted by Spartanburg123

Tealeaves- looking back on it, I now wish I had put it along a fence and just let it sprawl! Don't worry about suckers, just let it rip! This plant starts with a squeal and ends with a roar!

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Originally Posted by Nan_PA_6b

Thanks for touching base, Tea. My plant is no monster, either. It's about 5' tall. Hey, we can't all be Mike!

Yours are in containers, and it's good to know that container-grown Post Office Spoonful can stay a reasonable size. You're giving us data on how this variety performs in containers, and that's valuable.

It's possible this variety doesn't like to be pruned. Mine has made all kinds of branches, but I never prune or de-sucker anything, so I can't tell you.

Anyone else out there try to prune a Post Office Spoonful plant? Or any currant? How's that working for you?

Congratulations on setting fruit!

Nan

I definitely will not prune or de-sucker the other two. I think I'll put one in another container to compare it to the one I pruned, and put the other one in the front and let it go wild. I will keep you updated on the one that I pruned.

Rockporter · June 30, 2017

Wow, that is one huge plant for Mike, I can barely see his face in all that.

imp · June 30, 2017

All I could see was 1 hand. Mike may be a goner in there....makes me want to grow it, LOL!

Rockporter · June 30, 2017

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Originally Posted by imp

All I could see was 1 hand. Mike may be a goner in there....makes me want to grow it, LOL!

Follow that hand all the way to the right. When you see the stake to the right with white ties on it you have gone too far, hahaha.

I found Waldo!

Nan_PA_6b · June 30, 2017

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Originally Posted by imp

All I could see was 1 hand. Mike may be a goner in there....makes me want to grow it, LOL!

Imp, I'll have bagged seed available this fall!

Nan

Nan_PA_6b · July 6, 2017

I've got ripe fruit!

From plant-out on May 14 to July 7 = 54 days. Taste is a little on the acid side, but not overpowering by any means.

Plant is taller than me. but not a wall like Mike's.

Nan

imp · July 6, 2017

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Originally Posted by Nan_PA_6b

Imp, I'll have bagged seed available this fall!

Nan

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Originally Posted by Nan_PA_6b

I've got ripe fruit!

From plant-out on May 14 to July 7 = 54 days. Taste is a little on the acid side, but not overpowering by any means.

Plant is taller than me. but not a wall like Mike's.

Nan

Woohoo! Next year is my cherries and biggies year, and I do love those pops of tomato in a salad and just like tomato candies, so many flavors and colors.

Spartanburg123 · July 6, 2017

I have to take a bag and remove 358 ripe POS tomorrow. I'm probably NOT far off....LOLOLOL

imp · July 7, 2017

Since these are so prolific, has anyone thought of pickling them with maybe yellow wax beans as dilly beans or even bread and butter pickles? Might be good and sure would look pretty if they stayed whole in the jars.

Nan_PA_6b · July 7, 2017

Darin, sounds like you've got quite a tomato machine going! What will you do with them all?

Nan

Nan_PA_6b · July 7, 2017

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Originally Posted by imp

Since these are so prolific, has anyone thought of pickling them with maybe yellow wax beans as dilly beans or even bread and butter pickles? Might be good and sure would look pretty if they stayed whole in the jars.

Imp, mine hold together nicely, at least until they're dead ripe. I don't know if they'd hold through being cooked, though- do you have to cook 'em for pickling?

Nan

imp · July 7, 2017

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Originally Posted by Nan_PA_6b

Imp, mine hold together nicely, at least until they're dead ripe. I don't know if they'd hold through being cooked, though- do you have to cook 'em for pickling?

Nan

Pickling tomatoes can be done hot or cold process; cold requires being in the fridge is all. I may try some of the currant ones next year both ways if no one else does.

Spartanburg123 · July 7, 2017

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Originally Posted by Nan_PA_6b

Darin, sounds like you've got quite a tomato machine going! What will you do with them all?

Nan

Nan, I've been dumping them on people at work to put in their salads, or eat at their desk! These little boogers have a great acidic snap!

KarenO · July 8, 2017

Mine is busy setting fruit... hundreds of them...
KarenO

Spartanburg123 · July 9, 2017

Time for a salad!!! Great flavor!!

June 30, 2017	#17
Rockporter Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Texas Coastal Bend Posts: 3,205	Wow, that is one huge plant for Mike, I can barely see his face in all that. __________________ In the spring at the end of the day you should smell like dirt ~Margaret Atwood~

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imp Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Wichita Falls, Texas Posts: 4,832	All I could see was 1 hand. Mike may be a goner in there....makes me want to grow it, LOL!

July 6, 2017	#21
Nan_PA_6b Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2016 Location: Pittsburgh, PA Posts: 3,194	I've got ripe fruit! From plant-out on May 14 to July 7 = 54 days. Taste is a little on the acid side, but not overpowering by any means. Plant is taller than me. but not a wall like Mike's. Nan

July 6, 2017	#23
Spartanburg123 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2014 Location: Spartanburg, SC Posts: 1,262	I have to take a bag and remove 358 ripe POS tomorrow. I'm probably NOT far off....LOLOLOL

July 7, 2017	#24
imp Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Wichita Falls, Texas Posts: 4,832	Since these are so prolific, has anyone thought of pickling them with maybe yellow wax beans as dilly beans or even bread and butter pickles? Might be good and sure would look pretty if they stayed whole in the jars.