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Old April 5, 2016   #316
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Do you raise your own root stock? I've seen stock for sale, but wondered if you could grow those from seed. Now, back to the other stuff, there is no genetic overlap with grafting end-result? In improvement of either stock or scion in regards to environmental sensitivities?
I have not done it but it is not a difficult task.
There are several root stocks sold. Some are very expensive some are not. The cheapest one is Big Beef.

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Old April 5, 2016   #317
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Was Blackberry very hardy? I love my Black Krim (so productive and reliable in my zone 5), but the name Blackberry sounds yum!
It was hardy for me last year. I am growing it again this year. It tasted better consistently, even during a rainy spells.
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Old April 5, 2016   #318
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I'm totally late this year. Not for starting the seeds, but for planning them! I need to start them, but I lost all my trays and cells in the move. No idea what the heck happened to them. So I have to buy new ones before I can get them going. Anywho, here's my cut for this year.

Pastes/Hearts
Chico III
Rio Grande
San Marzano Lungo 2
Big Mama F1
Striped Roman
Santa Maria
Antique Roman
Japanese Plum
Cow's Tit
Hienz 2653
Meaty Russian
Linnie's Oxheart
Rozovyi Myod
Work Release
Monkey ★★★
Fish Lake Oxheart

Slicers/Beefsteaks
Big Boy F1
Better Boy F1
Rutger's Select
KBX
Ball's Beefsteak F1
Big Beef F1
Rozovyi Velikan
Thessaloniki
GGWT
Golden Queen USDA
Indian Stripe
"Amish Market" (a very good tomato my dad got from an Amish farmer at the farmer's market about four years ago, I saved a few seeds)
Moonglow
Boxcar Willie
Neves Azorean Red
Captain Lucky
Hoskins-Barger

Cherries/Saladette
Coyote
Ildi
Sungold F1
Bosque Blue Bumblebee
Pink Bumblebee
Purple Bumblebee
Blush
Tumbling Tom
Japanese Pink Cherry

Dwarfs
Uluru Ochre
Arctic Rose
Pink Passion
Purple Heart
Iditarod

Others
Zapotec
Striped Cavern
White Furry Boar
Fuzzy Wuzzy
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Old April 6, 2016   #319
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i know you guys are a lot better at this than me, can someone take a quick look at my list and let me know which are Det. ? It would really help in my garden layout
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Old April 6, 2016   #320
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i know you guys are a lot better at this than me, can someone take a quick look at my list and let me know which are Det. ? It would really help in my garden layout
Ask AlittleSalt about Pinky Blast. He grew it last year.
Sophie's Choice is determinate, I never grew it.
The rest look like indeterminate.
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Old April 7, 2016   #321
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Maglia Rosa is determinate.
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Old April 7, 2016   #322
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Old April 8, 2016   #323
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Just planted my seeds a few days ago and they are starting to germinate. So I'm looking forward to the 2016 season and especially to the 6 "new to me" varieties this year.

Odoriko
Stump of the World
Sweet Ozark Orange
Riesentraube
Brandywine Cowlicks
Momotaro
Dr. Lyle
Orange Russian 117
Sungold F1
Sweet Scarlet Dwarf
Dwarf Orange Cream

First time trying grow bags for my 2 new dwarf varieties
Hope we have decent weather this season.
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Old April 9, 2016   #324
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We can ask Fred about Maglia Rosa. It's his variety. Mine were very determinate.
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Old April 10, 2016   #325
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All my tomatoes this year will be repeat plantings wxcept for my f1 Rode de Berne X Prudence Purple cross

Eva Purple Ball
Prudence Purple
Rose'De Berne
Rose De'Berne X Prudence Purple F1
Stump of the World
Gregori's Altai
Dester
My own Cherry called Big Stella Rosa
My own Cherry called Luna Rosa
Black cherry
Viva Italia Paste
Russian Big Roma Paste
Speckled Roman
Unknown variety I've been calling "Small Red Early"
Siletz
Beaver Lodge
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Old April 10, 2016   #326
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If grown without pruning, Maglia Rosa will be bushy and low growing. If lower leaves and branches are trimmed, you can get it to vine up.

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Old April 10, 2016   #327
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The name of this thread is good for me... everything very tentative in 2016. Space is the final frontier, but maybe time will be a contender too. In spite of the unresolved ??? I finally started seeds anyway. I kept back a few seeds at least of every variety, to try again next year in case this lot get abandoned and or hucked into the great outdoors in bad weather. Many of my F3's are destined for outdoors anyway, because there is no room at the inn! I'm actually thankful that my friend had a damping off problem while out of town, because the perished sungolds have made room for some of my random cherries and small fruit.

So here is what I have up:

PINK
Mazarini - new to me
VB Russia - new to me
Pervaya Lyubov - repeat, so early!
Kitten Paws Pink F3 - half dozen, looking for saladette sizes
RED
Altajsij Urozajnij - repeat, so sweet!
Rodney X A.U. F1 - will be red, size/shape variable, hopefully early - 3 plants
Hope's Early F3 - 3. extra early, soft red hearts
Hope's Early X Winter Sky F1 - exploring genetics of texture (firmness) 2
three F1 crosses with Black Nipper (2 plants each) expect indet red cherries, long shapes.
YELLOW/ORANGE/BICOLOR
Oaxacan Jewel PL - back by popular demand
Orange Minsk - new to me, don't know if tangerine or beta
V. Desjatku - yellow, determinate, new to me
Warbler Yellow F2 - expecting segregation for size etc... 7 plants
Winter Sky F3 - looking for the Beta/Beta determinate.. 7
BLACK
Owen's Purple... new!
Royal Purple... new!
Beist B1-15 F3 - 2 plants. Friend is growing more F2's, selecting more early ones
Skipper F2: mini and bigger beefs... 6 will be happy with a medium small size
Rodney F2: radish/heart/plum? just 4 this time
Sundog F3: gotta see the Beta/Beta gf/gf... 6 plants
Black Nipper F4 - nearly forgot. 4 of these semi-determinate cherries, must see how growth habit continues to segregate or ?? stable
Blackest Cherry F3 - half dozen indeterminates - not for me but sungold replacements

Peppers are up too... keeping it simple and only keeping a few.. if I may
Jimmy Nardello - back again
Italian Pepperoncini - back
Mini Bells - new
Zolotoy Telets - new
Piment D'Esplette - new
Early Jalapeno - back, amazingly from 5 year old seeds

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Old April 14, 2016   #328
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Looks like the following are going in the garden this year:

1. Brandywine Sudduths
2. Burpee's Supersteak
3. Cherokee Purple
4. JD's Special C-Tex
5. Pink Bumble Bee
6. San Marzano
7. Sun Gold
8. Thessanonika

I will be starting them from seed today or tomorrow. I need to time them so they don't germinate before my new grow lamp arrives next Monday.

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Old April 14, 2016   #329
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Wow! I'm in 4a and I started my seeds on 3/20/2016. I've actually started hardening off some of mine. You should be almost a month ahead of me down there.
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Old April 14, 2016   #330
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Today I potted up into 4" pots:
ISPL - Repeat but first time as a PL
Daniel Burson - 1st time
GGWT - 1st time
Cherokee Carbon - 1st time
Spudatula - first time growing the PL variety
Carbon Copy - 1st time
NAR - repeat
Rebel Yell - 1st time
Biyskaya Roza - 1st time
Moravsky Div - 1st time
Cherokee Green - repeat
Aunt Gertie's Gold - my third and last attempt
Sun Sugar - repeat
Green Tiger - repeat
Maglia Rosa - new
Rosella - new
Bulgarian Triumph - new
George Detsikas Italian Red
Orange Minsk
And I started seeds for Sun Gold, Captain Lucky and Orange Caprese which haven't germinated yet.
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