Indoor Head Start

[jpop]

As usual looking great. The Paul Robeson is a good looking plant.

[PureHarvest]

First fruit is set. It's about pea-sized and on the Black Beauty. There is another one I just found after taking this photo.

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[skywalker]

looking good, mine still has not bloomed but getting close.

[bower]

Those six week dwarfs are spectacular! Larger pots seem to be well worth it. Too bad there just isn't enough room for bigger than beer cups at my place, or I'd follow your lead.

[PureHarvest]

A little update. Moved my three bags out this morning to free up space for seedling that need to go into 3.5" deep pots and under the light.
Will have to play the in and out game this week with weather this week.

The bigger plants in the top of the 1st photo are the ones that got moved outside. Photo 3 is the biggest one (Dark Queen)

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[PureHarvest]

Update 4/11

Moved my high tunnel. Frame is about done. Still need to install truss bars and will put the plastic on the top this week.
Going without sidewalls and endwalls. Basically need this to keep rain off plants and have a frame to hand my strings from. Not using it for temp modification.

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[PureHarvest]

Here is Dark Queen (2 plants in bag):

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[PureHarvest]

Dwarf Sweet Scarlet (2 plants in bag)

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[PureHarvest]

BLACK BEAUTY and Sweet Scarlet

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[PureHarvest]

And here is a truss on Black Beauty that has 34 flowers/buds!

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[heirloomtomaguy]

Pureharvest have you noticed Black Beauty growing like a gnarled mutant full of crazy shaped flowers and twists and turns. My 2 plants have grown up, sideways, down, and every which way. They really have no rhime or reason growth pattern

[PureHarvest]

Yes! Good, it's not just me.
I thought there was a problem with my nutrients or water, because a new leaf was curled all the way down like curly fries almost.
Add to that the weird shoots I'm getting off the petioles of a couple leaves, and this plant is definitely a weirdo, but I LOVE it!

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[Worth1]

Looks great I wish I had a flat open space with no trees.

Worth

[Hunt-Grow-Cook]

Originally Posted by PureHarvest

Yes! Good, it's not just me.
I thought there was a problem with my nutrients or water, because a new leaf was curled all the way down like curly fries almost.
Add to that the weird shoots I'm getting off the petioles of a couple leaves, and this plant is definitely a weirdo, but I LOVE it!

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Brad has said in the past that many of his indigo lines contain "wild tomato" genes that cause the gnarly growth. Take it for what it's worth. My blue gold would grow like that, and Muddy waters from Tom Wagner was the same. Blue beauty tends to be more normal growing in my garden and I can only remeber the occasional weird branch on Blue Berries or Blue Chocolate. I think even amethyst jewel throws some odd growth branches.

Things look great Pure, real healthy green. I'm anxious to see some reports on your Dark queen. If it's a sister to PBTD and sets better in heat, I'm all over it. Wondering if it keeps a compact growth profile like PBTD?

[PureHarvest]

So far it looks like it has the potential to get tall.
Of course, I am removing suckers, so the main stem might be pushing ahead farther than it might have.
But then again, the suckers were really slow to develop, so maybe it would stay relatively compact.

The Dark Queen in this thread was just to get a jump on the season and for fun

In my main crop, I have 6 to plant out, along with PBTD and BTD. They will be the same age and grown in the same conditions, so I can give good notes to you. I am also growing GGWT which I hear is similar too.