sunfish

Someone told me these are the biggest and best tomatoes they have ever had.

cold hardy

Dalmatiansoap

Thats what I call a real "potato leaf" tomato

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harveyc

Pal, you don't know "cold".

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sunfish

I lived in Missouri and Tennessee.

harveyc

Then you apparently forgot because your tomatoes endured cool weather, not cold weather. :08

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sunfish

I found these tomatoes growing in a ditch in Missouri after a cold winter of -10f in 51

harveyc

Haha, thanks a lot

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nannerfunboi

finally got tomatoes transplanted to 4"pots..sigh..
why do i plant so many seeds??????? LOL
i have 6 flats of 18=108 i gave up on rest so put in 8" pots
with ??i dont know how many plants each..i will give these away..
every yr..i think im going to loose some.i think they do this to test
me..yea thats it..LOL
so will be a bumper crop ..weather cooperating.. of tomatoes
this summer..

Scuba_Dave

Only 108 seedlings ?
Its been a bumper "crop" year for germination I think
I have around 300 seedlings growing, I usually plant seed for several cocktail tomatoes & then also several larger tomatoes
We recently had 3 nites in a row down near freezing, followed by a week of cool weather
So they are still growing in the greenhouse
I did transplant 6 tomato & 12 cucumbers to the garden near the house before the cold nites
I only lost 2 cucumber plants, so it did not get that cold for long

harveyc

Do you use row covers (frost fabric, etc.)? I bought a 6' x 1,000' roll of it but then rains delayed my planting so the plants were 2' tall before the ground dried out so they were too tall by then to use the row cover. I'll probably get to use it next year.

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Scuba_Dave

With the exception of the 6 Tomato & 12 cukes planted everything else is still growing in the greenhouse
The greenhouse hasn't been down near freezing since Feb
And not below 40 since the beginning of April

Around here you just can't plant stuff outside before May without fear of losing everything to a late frost
I only use black weed cloth for the gardens, soaks up the sun & keeps the weeds down
I keep planning to build cold frames for the garden outside the greenhouse
But I haven't managed to get to that project

Something like this but about 10' wide & using old sliding glass doors for the tops
Once the plants get tall enough I'd remove the glass doors for the growing season

Dalmatiansoap

This year setup

going for 140 plants this year

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nannerfunboi

wow scuba.. !! 300+ lol
we "were" to have chilly weather last nite..but was 40s F
i dont have mine planted yet..i usually wait for 1st of june..
they are huge and major roots..and seems tomatoes dont mind
transplanting..it also a bit warmer 1st of june..and i plant mine
fairly deep. they always have good roots and plants are supported
well..
i have my make shift portable greenhouse moved from lettuce to
clear spot..so when nite temps are solid in low 50sF i'll let tomatoes
stay out under it.. i have to vent it during the day..gets really hot
on sunny days..
which the EE love though..
hope warms up for ya in MA !!!!

Scuba_Dave

I did buy 5 larger Tomato plants from Home Depot - 3 of which are flowering already
One of these is a cocktail tomato & has its 1st tomato growing
Its not even the size of a pea yet but hoping to get early tomatoes with these 5 plants
I'll be leaving them in the greenhouse to grow until I start getting tomatoes from my own plants

I need to break out the Miracle grow & fertilize them

I really need to build my large cold frame...I think this will be the year
Of course I just started a new project - new roof on the pool cabana for solar heat

sunfish

They're growing now

venturabananas

I'll say!

Mine that I started from seed are a lot smaller than that, but they're all starting to flower and some have set fruit. First time I've grown them from seed. Very cool to see it actually work!

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sunfish

I am trying to keep up with Harvey so I am using a secret formula.

harveyc

What's you're secret formula?

It's too early for me to judge the practical benefits of tomato grafting yet, but I noticed a couple of days ago that the three Purple Russian I had grafted onto Maxifort were significantly fuller and more vigorous plants than the three that were ungrafted. Pretty cool to see such a difference.

I keep looking for even the slightest color change on my Sungold but nothing yet. My second batch of Sungold started from seed around 3/7 already have a lot of fruit set on them but I still wonder how they come up with ratings of something like 55 days. I'm well past that and these things were grown under lights and then in my greenhouse and given TLC.

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bananafarmer

Tomatoes inside my greenhouse,

they came out of nothing, suppose some seeds where within the soil I added to my greenhouse.

venturabananas

I thought it was 55 days after planting out, plus 6-8 weeks of growing the seedlings to the point where you could plant them out. In which case, you are still well on track for 55 days to harvest. Days from planting seed (or germination) to harvesting tomatoes would make more sense to me, but I don't think that's how it's done for tomatoes.

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