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Join Date: May 2012
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Very nice Cole,
Is that a tunnel in a tunnel I see? If so how tough is heat management, and what kind of season extension do you get? |
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#302 |
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Join Date: Jul 2016
Location: Tennessee
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I'm new and posting first time so that I can ultimately see your beautiful seedlings.
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#303 |
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Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Illinois, zone 6
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Thanks. I threw up some hoops over my benches, which sit on stock tanks of water. On nights below about 40 or so, I would cover the benches and place a 1500 watt electric heater underneath them. I can get up to about 25 degrees above the outside temp by heating just a small space.
Another thing I have learned is that plants in 6-packs are much more cold-sensitive than plants in 4" pots or larger. After I have potted up, I can be less careful about the cold. I think it has to do with the bacterial balance in the media, and the larger mass keeps it from getting as cold. |
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#304 |
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Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: Greenville, South Carolina
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Yours look better than mine. Definitely doing 1 per pot next year and keeping them in the tunnel. Something has been eating the leaves on mine.
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#305 |
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Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Newfoundland, Canada
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Guess I'm late to this party, but here they are FWIW. Out in the greenhouse getting used to it... nighttime temps 47-50 F this week, and daytime highs 60-85 F. Steady rain drizzle and fog, the heat is just from a glimmer of sunshine daily, which suits me perfectly since I've been working in town and not available to open and close. Also hasn't been windy which saved the nights from being toooo cold.
I have sternly cut down on my tomato plans this year - no more than a couple dozen for my greenhouse here (that means likely only a dozen more than two dozen ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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#306 |
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Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: Zone 6a Denver North Metro
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They're beautiful and not too late, I've not put out a single container yet. What's bottom-right, Matsu Express? Don't know if you got any of that seed, but the biggest potato leaves for a seedling. The Olive Hill has some huge leaves too. Good luck to you this season bower.
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Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Newfoundland, Canada
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![]() ![]() Thanks for the luck and same to you, Ricky! ![]() ![]() Ehhh... I just looked up and see it is SNOWING ... dang it. ![]() ![]() |
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#308 |
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Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: Indianapolis Area 46112
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Good looking plants bower, i started to set mine out - at least the ones i didn't sunburn
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#309 |
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Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Illinois, zone 6
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They look good, Bower.
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Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Vancouver Island
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![]() great looking babies there! here's to warmer weather KarenO |
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#311 |
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Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: NewYork 5a
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@Bower. I'm surprised you are not growing to sell. Nice good healthy plants. Or maybe
the need for a greenhouse for toms cuts down on demand? CanadianTire probably just has basic varieties. Or maybe you are not that close to town, StJohn's. I have a few friend that would be happy to take them. Brian and Ella have a hoop house in their town backyard. They took some of mine last year, even a GGWT. (terrible season they had last year). BrianRick's the photographer. Not sure where they get their starts. Most friends just start their own if they want variety. I keep visualizing a farmers market but that was Halifax. - i follow your lead as i will be growing a garden there at some point in the next few years.... |
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#312 |
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Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Illinois, zone 6
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Hopefully this plant isn't a labeling error. It's my Sweet Sue that came up RL instead of PL:
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#313 |
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Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Newfoundland, Canada
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She's a beauty, Cole! I hope she turns out as you wished... or a wonderful surprise.
![]() @KarenO, I had some trouble with germination this year and not sure whether it was the potting mix or the ill fitting domes but the long and short, I started seeds three times to "make sure" I got what I wanted... ahem. Got a Zena's Gift going into my friend's greenhouse.. can't wait to see them. ![]() ![]() @Oakley, I'm only 20 minutes from St. John's, and sold a lot of extra pepper and tomato plants for a few years but then I started having pest problems in the house before the plants were ready to leave. Realized that the seals had given out around the windows and need to be re-done, as ants and others were freely getting in (if not nesting over winter in the sills). Still waiting to get that finished, then I may try the market again. Some of the crosses I'm working on should be stable in a couple of years, you'll have to come and try them for your Bonavista garden. ![]() ![]() |
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#314 |
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Join Date: Oct 2012
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@ Bower:
Happy you are trying the Zena's gift! I hope you enjoy it, let me know how it does for you! I started mine early, expect ripe ones in June if all goes well. KarenO |
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Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: Indianapolis Area 46112
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Cole, what ever it is, it is a buet! hope it tastes as good as it looks, clkieper: thanks for the advice - i put them all out and they look fine so far, oakley, bower, gardeneer and all - thaks for the help!
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