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Re: Tomato Tuesday - 2018 & 2019
Finally we have had rain. I have been watering daily for 3 weeks and the tomatoes were looking ok is spite of the heat and lack of rain. Now I see a few leaves have rolled up tight. What causes this? It seems like every year it is a different battle. On the other had the Fourth of July tomatoes will soon be ripe. I have a great looking German Johnson. The blooms had been falling off, but finally I have a tomato started.
VJ72584- Posts : 100
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Re: Tomato Tuesday - 2018 & 2019
Tomato leaves roll up like that when hot and stressed to conserve water. They are ok and will bear just fine.
Lucky you with almost ripe fruit!
I am pleased that my SunGold cherry has its first blossom.
Lucky you with almost ripe fruit!
I am pleased that my SunGold cherry has its first blossom.
Turan- Posts : 2618
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Re: Tomato Tuesday - 2018 & 2019
"In short, the soil food web feeds everything you eat and helps keep your favorite planet from getting too hot. Be nice to it." ~ Diane Miessler, "Grow Your Soil"
Re: Tomato Tuesday - 2018 & 2019
Thank you, SFG forum, for teaching me about tomato cuttings. A couple of weeks ago, when I decided to go forward with my indoor garden project, I took a nice long cutting from a sucker on an outdoor tomato plant, and brought it inside. Here it is today, with roots and blossoms, ready for its new home. This saved me at least a month -- maybe 6 weeks -- over starting from seed.
yolos- Posts : 4139
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Re: Tomato Tuesday - 2018 & 2019
yolos wrote:Brandywine just harvested and sliced up for dinner. It will go nicely with the cucumbers I just sliced.
Makes me so jealous! My Brandywine tomatoes are only about 1" in diameter right now, and have a lot of growing to do.
"In short, the soil food web feeds everything you eat and helps keep your favorite planet from getting too hot. Be nice to it." ~ Diane Miessler, "Grow Your Soil"
Re: Tomato Tuesday - 2018 & 2019
I am even jealouser! I can't grow brandywines outside here. Our summers are just toooo hot. If my indoor garden experiment works, I may try again next year, bringing the plant inside when triple-digits hit.OhioGardener wrote:yolos wrote:Brandywine just harvested and sliced up for dinner. It will go nicely with the cucumbers I just sliced.
Makes me so jealous! My Brandywine tomatoes are only about 1" in diameter right now, and have a lot of growing to do.
Re: Tomato Tuesday - 2018 & 2019
Way to go, S. I have one thinking about it, but not there, yet.sanderson wrote: A red tomato!!
Re: Tomato Tuesday - 2018 & 2019
Isn't it possible to grow them at a different time of year when it is not sooooo hot. In Florida, they grow tomatoes at different times of the years than we do.countrynaturals wrote:I am even jealouser! I can't grow brandywines outside here. Our summers are just toooo hot. If my indoor garden experiment works, I may try again next year, bringing the plant inside when triple-digits hit.OhioGardener wrote:yolos wrote:Brandywine just harvested and sliced up for dinner. It will go nicely with the cucumbers I just sliced.
Makes me so jealous! My Brandywine tomatoes are only about 1" in diameter right now, and have a lot of growing to do.
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Re: Tomato Tuesday - 2018 & 2019
Hmmm, If I started them on New Year's Day . . . just maybe I could get them in before the real heat kicks in. Sanderson? Can you grow Brandywines? If so, how?yolos wrote:Isn't it possible to grow them at a different time of year when it is not sooooo hot. In Florida, they grow tomatoes at different times of the years than we do.countrynaturals wrote:I am even jealouser! I can't grow brandywines outside here. Our summers are just toooo hot. If my indoor garden experiment works, I may try again next year, bringing the plant inside when triple-digits hit.OhioGardener wrote:yolos wrote:Brandywine just harvested and sliced up for dinner. It will go nicely with the cucumbers I just sliced.
Makes me so jealous! My Brandywine tomatoes are only about 1" in diameter right now, and have a lot of growing to do.
I don't think I could grow them in the fall cuz they want long days and warm nights, don't they?
Re: Tomato Tuesday - 2018 & 2019
Curious, CN, can you use 50% shade cloth to provide afternoon shade on the tomatoes, in order to greatly prolong the growing season? Since the 50% shade cloth reduces temperatures by about 25ºF, it seems that it would greatly improve the growing conditions. Just curious....
"In short, the soil food web feeds everything you eat and helps keep your favorite planet from getting too hot. Be nice to it." ~ Diane Miessler, "Grow Your Soil"
Re: Tomato Tuesday - 2018 & 2019
I had to check my plot plan to see if I planted any Brandywine this year. (Too lazy to check out side) No, no BW this year. I have 3 Snow Fairies loaded with fruit, 1 Cherokee purple, 2 Rutgers, 3 Mortgage Lifters, 2 Arkansas Travelers, 2 large pastes (San Marzano??), some Beefsteak type and a mystery tomato that is definitely NOT a Snow Fairy. It has huge ox-heart shaped tomatoes. I may save some seed to see if it grows true next year.
Snow Fairies.
BTE tomato section.
Sun shade against the afternoon and evening sun is so important from here on!!
Snow Fairies.
BTE tomato section.
Sun shade against the afternoon and evening sun is so important from here on!!
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Re: Tomato Tuesday - 2018 & 2019
Already doing that. I get such a kick out of seed packets that say "6 hours of direct sunlight". I guess maybe pumpkins or other gourd types could tolerate 6 hours of our direct sun, but all of my gardens are in the shade of the oaks or the redwoods, with filtered sunlight only, and that's all they need. Sadly, there's nothing I can do about the heat. When triple-digits become a daily treat, it's all over for most of the garden. Nothing actually dies, but nothing produces, either until we get back down to the 90s.OhioGardener wrote:Curious, CN, can you use 50% shade cloth to provide afternoon shade on the tomatoes, in order to greatly prolong the growing season? Since the 50% shade cloth reduces temperatures by about 25ºF, it seems that it would greatly improve the growing conditions. Just curious....
Re: Tomato Tuesday - 2018 & 2019
"In short, the soil food web feeds everything you eat and helps keep your favorite planet from getting too hot. Be nice to it." ~ Diane Miessler, "Grow Your Soil"
Re: Tomato Tuesday - 2018 & 2019
WOW! OG! Gorgeous! Now I remember why I didn't try starting brandywines early in the house -- they're HUGE! This just makes me more determined. My official first New Year's Resolution for 2020 is to find a way to grow a brandywine tomato.
Re: Tomato Tuesday - 2018 & 2019
OG - Yum Yum
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AM I in Trouble?
I'm in SE Michigan and I barely have flowers on my tomato plants. Should I be worried? I'm new to SFG.
Thanks!
Thanks!
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Re: Tomato Tuesday - 2018 & 2019
"In short, the soil food web feeds everything you eat and helps keep your favorite planet from getting too hot. Be nice to it." ~ Diane Miessler, "Grow Your Soil"
Re: Tomato Tuesday - 2018 & 2019
Beautiful tomato plants OG. Do you use anything to keep diseases at bay. I have already removed two tomatoes due to some disease. This particular disease is new to me so I don't know exactly what to do. I will have to take pictures and samples and take to county extension agency. I do spray occasionally with Daconil or Copper Fungicide but we have been having rain every day so it is almost useless to try to keep this from spreading. I am cutting infected leaves and removing whole tomato plants that are too badly infected. It could be just too much water from all the rain.
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Re: Tomato Tuesday - 2018 & 2019
yolos wrote:Beautiful tomato plants OG. Do you use anything to keep diseases at bay. I have already removed two tomatoes due to some disease. This particular disease is new to me so I don't know exactly what to do. I will have to take pictures and samples and take to county extension agency. I do spray occasionally with Daconil or Copper Fungicide but we have been having rain every day so it is almost useless to try to keep this from spreading. I am cutting infected leaves and removing whole tomato plants that are too badly infected. It could be just too much water from all the rain.
Other than frequently pruning the plants to ensure adequate air flow through the plant, the only thing I do is keep the soil as healthy and as full of microbes as possible, and do monthly sprays of compost tea and Effective Microorganisms (EM). My philosophy is that disease and insects tend not to affect healthy plants, so I keep them as healthy as possible.
What you are describing, though, sounds like Tomato Blight. It is most common during periods of high humidity, and heavy rain. If it is blight, ensure that after removing leaves or branches that are blighted that they are kept off the soil and disposed of, and then sterilize the tools and wash your hands before touching any non-infected leaves or stems. Once blight is present and progresses, it becomes more resistant to biofungicide and fungicide. Treat it as soon as possible and on a schedule, which is hard to do when it rains every day.
"In short, the soil food web feeds everything you eat and helps keep your favorite planet from getting too hot. Be nice to it." ~ Diane Miessler, "Grow Your Soil"
Re: Tomato Tuesday - 2018 & 2019
If anyone is looking for tomato cages, Text Tomato Cages has a sale on them through 7/3/19 - $10 off a 6-pack of cages, and $15 off a 6-pack of cages with extensions (these are what I have).
Code FREEDOM10 for the $10 discount on cages.
Code FREEDOM15 for the $15 discount on cages w/extensions.
Texas Tomato Cages
Code FREEDOM10 for the $10 discount on cages.
Code FREEDOM15 for the $15 discount on cages w/extensions.
Texas Tomato Cages
"In short, the soil food web feeds everything you eat and helps keep your favorite planet from getting too hot. Be nice to it." ~ Diane Miessler, "Grow Your Soil"
Re: Tomato Tuesday - 2018 & 2019
I have 6 of the texas tomato cages. I love them and I should really get more but I probably will not. 6 good supported tomato plants plus another 8 in buckets plus another 6 along a trellis should be enough to satisfy my tomato taste.OhioGardener wrote:If anyone is looking for tomato cages, Text Tomato Cages has a sale on them through 7/3/19 - $10 off a 6-pack of cages, and $15 off a 6-pack of cages with extensions (these are what I have).
Code FREEDOM10 for the $10 discount on cages.
Code FREEDOM15 for the $15 discount on cages w/extensions.
Texas Tomato Cages
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