Do you have tomatoes yet? inquiring minds... - Page 2

Rfdillon · April 11, 2015

Yes, on an "early girl" that has been in the ground since February, and on. a "Cherokee Purple" planted on March 8.

Worth1 · April 11, 2015

Every plant I have has tomatoes growing on them.
Except for the extra wee babies that came free along with the tomato plants I bought.

Worth

noinwi · April 11, 2015

Geez...I don't even have decent seedlings yet...too cold here yet and I didn't have have a very good lighting set-up this season. I may have to buy some bigger plants when the time comes.

Father'sDaughter · April 11, 2015

Mine are still just a gleam in their parent's eyes...

AZGardener · April 11, 2015

Just picked my first Cherokee purple today, have picked 2 Lemon Boys, tons of sweet 100's and yellow pears, but loads of fruit setting. Will have to go take some pics and post them!

bower · April 11, 2015

Indoor winter tomato plans failed this year for lack of soil.

(of all things!)

Four weeks from today I will know how many of this year's plants are precocious flowering (42-48 days from germination, anyway

)

kath · April 11, 2015

On Feb. 18th, I sowed 6 early cherry tomato plants which were moved to there greenhouse April 1st and all have visible tomatoes except Russian Cherry, which also is looking like an indeterminate- not what I was shooting for. The rest look like they'll be happy in pots of just a couple gallon size. Not sure how soon the fruits will ripen, but the first photo is Ditmarsher, which has over 20 fruits; 2nd photo is German Extreme Dwarf, with only 2 fruits; 3rd is Pearly Pink Orange, with about a dozen; 4th photo is Jagodka, with 10; last is Aiaparl, with 18 fruits.

AZGardener · April 11, 2015

Cherokee purple-2nd harvest but this is the biggest one yet!

Gardeneer · April 12, 2015

GEEZE, Wheeze, Cheese, Holy macaroni!

You Taxans, Arozonian, and Californian ....

I have just started pushing my season. My babies are out in the cols shivering.

I humbly protest !

efisakov · April 12, 2015

Quote:

Originally Posted by kath

On Feb. 18th, I sowed 6 early cherry tomato plants which were moved to there greenhouse April 1st and all have visible tomatoes except Russian Cherry, which also is looking like an indeterminate- not what I was shooting for. The rest look like they'll be happy in pots of just a couple gallon size. Not sure how soon the fruits will ripen, but the first photo is Ditmarsher, which has over 20 fruits; 2nd photo is German Extreme Dwarf, with only 2 fruits; 3rd is Pearly Pink Orange, with about a dozen; 4th photo is Jagodka, with 10; last is Aiaparl, with 18 fruits.

Kath, wow! Nice set of tomatoes!
Does your green house getting any heat? More pictures, please.

bughunter99 · April 12, 2015

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gardeneer

GEEZE, Wheeze, Cheese, Holy macaroni!

You Taxans, Arozonian, and Californian ....

I have just started pushing my season. My babies are out in the cols shivering.
I humbly protest !

Whenever I get jealous of my southern friends early season, I remind myself that they have spiders and beetles and mosquitoes the size of small cars down there. That quickly makes my crazy labile and later zone 5 weather look pretty awesome. The ginormous bugs they have can't take it here!

Stacy

KarenO · April 12, 2015

Zone 3 thanks for the Micro cross seeds ChrisK!

These started in my kitchen under lights around the end of December. grown in front of a big window with supplemental ordinary daylight fluorescent light tubes. Moved out to the greenhouse yesterday to finish ripening the remaining cherries.
Where there's a will, there's a way to have early tomatoes, even here

KarenO

bower · April 12, 2015

Wow, guys!

Not to be outdone, check out this wee tomato I just found in my greenhouse...

Alpinejs · April 13, 2015

I am in the process of letting my Calif. garden die out as I am hitting the road for Canada.
Had lots of great tomatoes with JD's spec. c-tex taking top honors this winter. I have all
my Canada seedling started here due to the short season there. The "mater freighter" trailor is ready to roll. Since I grow in pails on floating docks in my lagoon, as soon as the ice melts,
the water temp is around forty degrees,. so if we get a night temp like 28 degrees, it does not
affect the tomato plants. I am transporting about 140 seedling of about 125 varieties.
If I were to stay here for the summer, I could have tomatoes 12 months of the year.'
I would guess that Alpine is about as good as it gets for a year around growing climate.
I had one day of night time temps in the freeze range, so I wheeled all the pails into the
garage for the night and all survived.

joseph · April 19, 2015

First fruit of the season. This is an F1 hybrid tomato that I grew indoors under lights, and then moved to the greenhouse when it got warm enough. Today is my regularly scheduled day to start tomatoes for my fields.

Now What???

How should I deal with this tomato? How soon are the seeds viable? What method should I use to extract them? How soon can I replant? Do they need to dry? Phosphate treatment instead of fermenting? My normal tomato seed harvesting techniques take months: The fruit is fully ripened on the vine, and then ripened further indoors, and then fermented for a long time. I can spare a few weeks to get the seed ready, but if I used my normal methods then I'd run out of growing season.

April 11, 2015	#20
AZGardener Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: Zone 9b Phoenix,AZ Posts: 390	Just picked my first Cherokee purple today, have picked 2 Lemon Boys, tons of sweet 100's and yellow pears, but loads of fruit setting. Will have to go take some pics and post them! __________________ Kelly from Phx, AZ Toes and Tomatoes on FB

April 11, 2015	#16
Rfdillon Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2015 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 121	Yes, on an "early girl" that has been in the ground since February, and on. a "Cherokee Purple" planted on March 8.

April 11, 2015	#17
Worth1 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Den of Drunken Fools Posts: 38,539	Every plant I have has tomatoes growing on them. Except for the extra wee babies that came free along with the tomato plants I bought. Worth

April 11, 2015	#18
noinwi Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: PNW Posts: 486	Geez...I don't even have decent seedlings yet...too cold here yet and I didn't have have a very good lighting set-up this season. I may have to buy some bigger plants when the time comes.

April 11, 2015	#19
Father'sDaughter Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: MA/NH Border Posts: 4,919	Mine are still just a gleam in their parent's eyes...

April 11, 2015	#21
bower Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Newfoundland, Canada Posts: 6,794	Indoor winter tomato plans failed this year for lack of soil. (of all things!) Four weeks from today I will know how many of this year's plants are precocious flowering (42-48 days from germination, anyway )

April 12, 2015	#24
Gardeneer Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2015 Location: NC - zone 8a - heat zone 7 Posts: 4,919	GEEZE, Wheeze, Cheese, Holy macaroni! You Taxans, Arozonian, and Californian .... I have just started pushing my season. My babies are out in the cols shivering. I humbly protest !

April 13, 2015	#29
Alpinejs Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Alpine, Calif. in winter. Sandpoint Lake, Ont. Canada summers Posts: 850	I am in the process of letting my Calif. garden die out as I am hitting the road for Canada. Had lots of great tomatoes with JD's spec. c-tex taking top honors this winter. I have all my Canada seedling started here due to the short season there. The "mater freighter" trailor is ready to roll. Since I grow in pails on floating docks in my lagoon, as soon as the ice melts, the water temp is around forty degrees,. so if we get a night temp like 28 degrees, it does not affect the tomato plants. I am transporting about 140 seedling of about 125 varieties. If I were to stay here for the summer, I could have tomatoes 12 months of the year.' I would guess that Alpine is about as good as it gets for a year around growing climate. I had one day of night time temps in the freeze range, so I wheeled all the pails into the garage for the night and all survived.

April 19, 2015	#30
joseph Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2013 Location: Cache Valley, N/E of The Great Salt Lake Posts: 1,244	First fruit of the season. This is an F1 hybrid tomato that I grew indoors under lights, and then moved to the greenhouse when it got warm enough. Today is my regularly scheduled day to start tomatoes for my fields. Now What??? How should I deal with this tomato? How soon are the seeds viable? What method should I use to extract them? How soon can I replant? Do they need to dry? Phosphate treatment instead of fermenting? My normal tomato seed harvesting techniques take months: The fruit is fully ripened on the vine, and then ripened further indoors, and then fermented for a long time. I can spare a few weeks to get the seed ready, but if I used my normal methods then I'd run out of growing season.