Hey Fellow Floridians - Year 2 - Page 30

Barb_FL · October 26, 2015

Is that a turtle?

The only think I've had messing with my seedlings were snails.

Larry, are you starting your 2nd crop of broccoli seeds now?

ginger2778 · October 26, 2015

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Originally Posted by Barb_FL

Is that a turtle?

The only think I've had messing with my seedlings were snails.

Larry, are you starting your 2nd crop of broccoli seeds now?

It is a Bufo Marinas Toad, I think. One was staring at me from an earthbox tube last week. I hope my dog doesn't find it.

Zone9b · October 27, 2015

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Originally Posted by Barb_FL

Is that a turtle?
The only think I've had messing with my seedlings were snails.
Larry, are you starting your 2nd crop of broccoli seeds now?

Yes, I have a 126 3 1/2" cups planted with Broccoli seeds. Well 125, my friend the toad is in 1 of them. A few are Green Magic for comparison (your seeds, Thank You) and the rest are Premium Crop. I plan to get them transplanted no later than Dec 20th. God willing and the creek don't rise.

Larry

Fiishergurl · October 27, 2015

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Originally Posted by Zone9b

Yes, I have a 126 3 1/2" cups planted with Broccoli seeds. Well 125, my friend the toad is in 1 of them. A few are Green Magic for comparison (your seeds, Thank You) and the rest are Premium Crop. I plan to get them transplanted no later than Dec 20th. God willing and the creek don't rise.

Larry

Wow wow wow! Thats a lot of broccoli. And that Toad looks like he isnt giving up his cup!

Ginny

Zone9b · October 27, 2015

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Originally Posted by Fiishergurl

Wow wow wow! Thats a lot of broccoli. And that Toad looks like he isnt giving up his cup!
Ginny

Ya, he's the Man or rather he's the Toad!

Barb_FL · October 30, 2015

Larry - you must have a lot of space for all that broccoli. 1 seed per cup?

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Marsha - Are you back yet? How was NC; any hiking? How did your plants manage without you?

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Ginny - how do you add comments between pictures? I have 4 unrelated pictures that I want to post.

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Nighttime temp lows are still 74. Been buzzing daily around 11.

Here's the first picture:

Coastal Pride seedlings - seeds via Marsha. Sowed on 10/17. The CP are on the bottom left, the biggest/healthiest looking.

Fred's Tie Dye is another of Marsha's - in the top left. Top right is my Sweet Scarlet Dwarf, and Bottom Right is from Marsha - PBTH - first leaves were funky looking; hoping true leaves are normal.

SSD - purchased from Tatianna in January -. I've had so much problems with them; I have one plant and have started over and over many times; either bad germination or weak seedling that doesn't make it.

Zone9b · October 30, 2015

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Originally Posted by Barb_FL

Larry - you must have a lot of space for all that broccoli. 1 seed per cup?
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Marsha - Are you back yet? How was NC; any hiking? How did your plants manage without you?
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Ginny - how do you add comments between pictures? I have 4 unrelated pictures that I want to post.
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Nighttime temp lows are still 74. Been buzzing daily around 11.
Here's the first picture:
Coastal Pride seedlings - seeds via Marsha. Sowed on 10/17. The CP are on the bottom left, the biggest/healthiest looking.
Fred's Tie Dye is another of Marsha's - in the top left. Top right is my Sweet Scarlet Dwarf, and Bottom Right is from Marsha - PBTH - first leaves were funky looking; hoping true leaves are normal.
SSD - purchased from Tatianna in January -. I've had so much problems with them; I have one plant and have started over and over many times; either bad germination or weak seedling that doesn't make it.

Yes 1 seed per cup. 4 trays are now in the sun a 5th will go in the sun tomorrow. From 126 seeds approx 30 have not germinated and I will probably reseed those cups tomorrow. The broccoli in the garden is starting to head now. I'm keeping my fingers crossed because I am having much more gardening problems this season than in a long time. It would appear that what seemed like endless rain for months has done a number on both my native soil and compost filled raised beds. All my beans, Rattlesnake, Fortex Cross, Golden Gate, Provider and Jade II are disasters this season. I have a post over in the legume section of tomatoville looking for comments maybe some of you would like to look at it and see if you could help me.
http://tomatoville.com/showthread.ph...fall+bean+crop

The name is Worst Ever Fall Bean Crop

What ever the issue is it doesn't seem to have effected the tomatoes. They look pretty good. Of the large indeterminates, Granadero looks the best and has quite a lot of tomatoes set and they are getting good sized. Bush plants Clear Pink Early (heirloom), Early Wonder (OP 1947), Fourth of July (F1) are all doing quite well. I have been eating a few Sun Gold and Terenzo cherries as they come ripe. I have eaten a couple of Extreme Bush tomatoes. X Bush looks a lot like many of the other dwarfs but it fruits much faster than Sleeping Lady, New Big Dwarf and Iditarod Red, which are the other dwarfs which are still with me. Two or three others didn't make it.
Early morning low temperatures have been running from roughly 67 to 72 here. It will probably be a week or two before it is consistently below 70 in the morning.
I noticed something yesterday that I had not noticed before. After spending a couple of hours tying up tomatoes with my rough version of Florida Weave when I washed off my arms I noticed that they were covered with pollen. At first I wondered what all they yellow stuff was then it came to me.

Fiishergurl · October 31, 2015

Barb, your seedlings grew so quickly!! I started some on Wednesday of this week and they havent even sprouted yet. And i have them in a room that is 85-90 degrees during the day. Yours look great!

As far as pictures. I use Tapatalk app to post them from my phone. Sometimes i just post them and then go back and edit the post from my laptop to add in the text. Does that help?

Ginny

ginger2778 · October 31, 2015

Barb, delighted that you got such good germinatio . Is PBTH meant to be Berkeley Tie Die Heart?
I had weird cotyledons too, but it is growing very normal now. But very wispy.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Barb_FL

Larry - you must have a lot of space for all that broccoli. 1 seed per cup?

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Marsha - Are you back yet? How was NC; any hiking? How did your plants manage without you?

--
Ginny - how do you add comments between pictures? I have 4 unrelated pictures that I want to post.

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Nighttime temp lows are still 74. Been buzzing daily around 11.

Here's the first picture:

Coastal Pride seedlings - seeds via Marsha. Sowed on 10/17. The CP are on the bottom left, the biggest/healthiest looking.

Fred's Tie Dye is another of Marsha's - in the top left. Top right is my Sweet Scarlet Dwarf, and Bottom Right is from Marsha - PBTH - first leaves were funky looking; hoping true leaves are normal.

SSD - purchased from Tatianna in January -. I've had so much problems with them; I have one plant and have started over and over many times; either bad germination or weak seedling that doesn't make it.

Barb_FL · October 31, 2015

Larry - read your bean problem thread. I have no idea.

Wanted to say we have not had any significant rain in 3 weeks now. My tomato plants look good as well.

No where near having any tomato ready to eat. Most plants don't have tomatoes but these do:

SunGold - lots
Garden Gem - tons, even more than SG - I'm so impressed.
Garden Treasure - another UF breed - a few
Park's Whopper - 2 plants in Root Pouch both have many; 2 had BER (1 from each plant)
Cole - got seeds from Robbie-Cole - tiny plant but not a dwarf
Unknown - probably BCD - 2 tomatoes are getting pretty big though.

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Finally saw new ones: on Big Beef, Vorlon, NAV, Ildi, George, Large Barred Boar, Beauty Queen.

Nothing on PBTD, GGWT and I have 5+ plants, either Bulgarian, Early Girl, Kelloggs, KBX, anything Artisan, Rebel Yell, Taxi, BWC-Pink, Big Brandy, Captain Lucky, Momataro, Red Rose, Black from Tula, Cosmonaut.

Just flowers on dwarfs - hard to buzz too; I think they liked the cooler temps better.

On Vorlon, I missed the bottom 2 trusses; no fruit drop. Plant has 3 tomatoes and tons of blooms on top.

I think the nights are just too warm; I see the big open blooms and have buzzed every day.

Posting another picture: It's Garden Gem - the UF breed.

Fiishergurl · October 31, 2015

Wow. Garden Gem has tons of tomatoes and blossoms. Nice!!

Ginny

kayrobbins · November 1, 2015

Now that I am harvesting some cherry tomatoes of course I am starting to work on my spring planting list. I am going to order Indigo Cherry Drops and I think the Sunrise Bumblebee. The SB won't ship until January though. I have the Rebel Yell seeds that I did not plant for winter because we do get more cold here than many of you. For those who have planted it, how does it rate?

The International Herb Association's conference is being held in Fernandina and the featured herb for 2016 is chile peppers so all the speakers will be focusing on that. I will be working as a volunteer Thursday, Friday and Saturday. That will let me hear all the speakers without paying the $250 fee. I think it will be an interesting experience. I am donating 100 packs of Datil and Seminole pumpkin seeds so the attendees can get introduced to some Florida heirlooms. I am not so sure they will grow for the people in Minnesota and Quebec. They may not have enough warm days.

Barb_FL · November 1, 2015

Kay - I will check, but I think I have Sunrise Bumblebee so possibly no need to order.

I've been taking clippings from my plants where I only have one; so far so good. I'm testing root development in 1. ProMix, 2. WonderSoil, 3. Washed Coir with perlite added.

ginger2778 · November 1, 2015

Barb- you do the most interesting experiments. You are our personal resident scientist.

Zone9b · November 1, 2015

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Originally Posted by Barb_FL

Kay - I will check, but I think I have Sunrise Bumblebee so possibly no need to order.
I've been taking clippings from my plants where I only have one; so far so good. I'm testing root development in 1. ProMix, 2. WonderSoil, 3. Washed Coir with perlite added.

Curious if you use a rooting hormone or not needed or not desirable?
Thanks, Larry

October 26, 2015	#436
Barb_FL Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Apr 2014 Location: Indialantic, Florida Posts: 2,000	Is that a turtle? The only think I've had messing with my seedlings were snails. Larry, are you starting your 2nd crop of broccoli seeds now?

October 31, 2015	#443
Fiishergurl Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2014 Location: Oak Hill, Florida Posts: 1,781	Barb, your seedlings grew so quickly!! I started some on Wednesday of this week and they havent even sprouted yet. And i have them in a room that is 85-90 degrees during the day. Yours look great! As far as pictures. I use Tapatalk app to post them from my phone. Sometimes i just post them and then go back and edit the post from my laptop to add in the text. Does that help? Ginny

October 31, 2015	#446
Fiishergurl Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2014 Location: Oak Hill, Florida Posts: 1,781	Wow. Garden Gem has tons of tomatoes and blossoms. Nice!! Ginny

November 1, 2015	#447
kayrobbins Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2013 Location: Jacksonville, Fl Posts: 820	Now that I am harvesting some cherry tomatoes of course I am starting to work on my spring planting list. I am going to order Indigo Cherry Drops and I think the Sunrise Bumblebee. The SB won't ship until January though. I have the Rebel Yell seeds that I did not plant for winter because we do get more cold here than many of you. For those who have planted it, how does it rate? The International Herb Association's conference is being held in Fernandina and the featured herb for 2016 is chile peppers so all the speakers will be focusing on that. I will be working as a volunteer Thursday, Friday and Saturday. That will let me hear all the speakers without paying the $250 fee. I think it will be an interesting experience. I am donating 100 packs of Datil and Seminole pumpkin seeds so the attendees can get introduced to some Florida heirlooms. I am not so sure they will grow for the people in Minnesota and Quebec. They may not have enough warm days.

November 1, 2015	#448
Barb_FL Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Apr 2014 Location: Indialantic, Florida Posts: 2,000	Kay - I will check, but I think I have Sunrise Bumblebee so possibly no need to order. I've been taking clippings from my plants where I only have one; so far so good. I'm testing root development in 1. ProMix, 2. WonderSoil, 3. Washed Coir with perlite added.

November 1, 2015	#449
ginger2778 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Plantation, Florida zone 10 Posts: 9,283	Barb- you do the most interesting experiments. You are our personal resident scientist.