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December 22, 2015 | #677 | |
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December 22, 2015 | #678 | |
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I have to go out and spray, not only lots of fungus, but because the season wasn't bad enough, I now have Tomato Russet Mites. Gonna douse them( drown them) in Neem. |
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December 22, 2015 | #679 | |
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Barb it is good to see you still here and growing the fall toms. Ginny i sure hated to see you lose the CP that plant was doing so well.Oh and by chance would you be a member of crappie.com? |
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December 22, 2015 | #680 |
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Welcome Captnkirk - keep us posted on your varieties. I am so glad I planted hybrids this fall.
Elight - I'm in zone 9B also; Indialantic is a coastal town off of Melbourne. Until last year, I always sowed my spring seeds on January 1. But last year I was growing dwarfs for the first time and sowed them December 1. (I was leaving Florida for 10 days over Christmas). I sowed the rest of the seeds just before I left (inside, only natural light but a lot of it, fan on timer, had watering covered). The dwarfs did great but the other seeds must have germinated really fast and were so leggy when I returned. The dwarfs did great and produced a lot of fruit; we only had 2 cold days in 2015 anyway. This year I am going away even longer. I've sowed dwarfs on 12/1. And it is still so hot outside that nighttime temperatures are still not low enough for much fruit set. Last spring my fruit set ended in early April (due to heat) when usually it is end of May. I'm hoping with the veggie-bee it will help prolong it since it seemed to work on a lot of varieties this fall. --- Marsha - is your fruit set a lot less than prior years? I actually did much better this fall than Fall of 2014 but I'm sure it was b/c I planted more hybrids. |
December 22, 2015 | #681 | |
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Barb, fruit set, got cracks in the rain and heat, got worms be ause my BT was too old, then more rain snd heat- many just rotted before maturing. Now Tomato Russet Mites, so spraying with Neem, and hating this season soooo much. The seed offermight not take place if I cant get enough fruit, and from healthy plants. This stinks!
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December 22, 2015 | #682 |
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Picked 3 Bloody Butcher yesterday. As I am from Michigan, this was unheard of. Tomatoes in December!! Wow. My Homestead is full of green tomatoes and I'm looking forward to tasting them. I can't believe tomatoes in Florida can taste as good as in Michigan. I must say they are harder to grow here. No nematodes in Michigan and hardly any tomato diseases.
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December 22, 2015 | #683 | |
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Yes I am a member on the Crappie.com... :-) I love that forum too. I've learned lots of good places to Crappie fish from those guys and also had fun at some of the slab fests. All my tomato plants took a huge hit from the TYLCV this fall but I hope I have the garden back in shape now... I've been working on it. I just started seeds for spring so time will tell. Welcome back to T Ville! Ginny |
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December 22, 2015 | #684 | |
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I'm 9B also. I have started seeds in mid December and mid January and by mid March you couldn't tell which were which because the later ones caught up in size so quickly once it warmed up in March and the plants all really took off then. So the earlier sowed ones didn't really benefit from the earlier sowing. But with this weird weather who knows what will happen. I just started mine yesterday for spring just in case January and February are unseasonably warm... :-) Ginny |
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December 22, 2015 | #685 | |
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December 22, 2015 | #687 | |
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--- Ginny - I think hedging your bets on starting some early is a good idea. Larry - I finally have a broccoli head; and it was an F2 runt that was put in a Root Pouch that I didn't even clean up after pulling a pepper plant. The Root Pouch had a bunch of real earthworms in it. |
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December 22, 2015 | #688 | |
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I get those email updates about the Fl Crappie Club and always enjoy looking at the results of the tournaments. Have you been to Harney this year? We've heard it's been on fire but we haven't tried it yet (keep meaning to). We did fine at Monroe a few times this year. Good to see you here!! Ginny |
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December 23, 2015 | #689 |
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Yeah, I agree that seedlings put out early in 9b don't seem to have much advantage and just run the risk of being lost in a late frost. I had to scramble to cover everything this past February when temps got down to 33 one night. Of course in the fall, I also had to bring everything in when I was leaving for vacation and we were supposed to get a direct hurricane hit while I was gone (we didn't).
Anyway, my plan is to start seeds around Jan. 10 and plant out between Feb. 5-15 depending on the forecast. In the past when I've started seeds more than 4 weeks ahead of time they just end up getting leggy. Going to go with many cherries this time around due to the short spring season (learned my lesson). The fall has been a bit of a disappointment due to a combination of the very hit weather and battling pests and disease. I think after 2 years here, I finally have the disease, bug and fertilization programs understood, though. Sent from my SM-G925T using Tapatalk |
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