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Post: # 14810Unread post AlittleSalt
Mon Mar 23, 2020 6:36 pm

Which tomatoes are you growing when the weather is right in your neck of the woods?

My tomato list:

1 Celebrity F1
1 Early Girl F1
2 Sweet 100 Cherry F1

Peppers:

2 Hot Banana
1 Sweet Banana
1 Sweet Cherry
Texas Zone 8A

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Post: # 14811Unread post PlainJane
Mon Mar 23, 2020 6:43 pm

Nice! But I thought you’d go heavier on hot peppers, lol.
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Post: # 14821Unread post pondgardener
Mon Mar 23, 2020 8:58 pm

I started a number of tomatoes yesterday hoping to get least 45 or so usable seedlings. But as it usually turns out, I will end up with many more.

Anna Margaret's Heart
Estler's Mortgage Lifter
Henry's Choice (named for my grandson)
Indian Stripe RL
Pertsevidnyy
No Name Paste
Cernetu
Bunicul Ludovic
Big Beef Hybrid
Ciliegino Cherry
Honey Bee Cherry
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Post: # 14822Unread post Nan6b
Mon Mar 23, 2020 9:18 pm

So far I have these seeded
Bajaja
Bloody Butcher
Cosmic Eclipse
Don Camillo
Feng Shui
Husky Red F1
Isis candy cherry
Limbaugh
New Hampshire pickling tomato
Post Office Spoonful
Purple Russian
Stump of the World
Sungold
Sophie's Choice
Tatjana

Peppers:
Cherry Bomb
Bishop's Cap
Korean Dark Green
Onyx Red

Forgot to seed Elephant Ear pepper. Will do that tomorrow.

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Post: # 14833Unread post AlittleSalt
Tue Mar 24, 2020 1:23 am

I wanted to find a Sungold plant or two, but with the recent Coronavirus circumstances - well, you know.

With pepper plants, I will start a few seeds (really late). It has been the wettest year on record here through March 24th. I was hoping to support a local mom and pop nursery by buying all pepper and tomato plants from them, but that was a very limited selection. It has been one thing piling up on the next this year.

Pondgardener, I didn't start any Anna Margaret's Heart seeds because of how much it has rained here this year.
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Post: # 15462Unread post Dee
Sun Mar 29, 2020 5:58 pm

I had planned to wait until April to start my seeds, but ended up starting them this past Friday.


Work Release Paste
Black Sea Man
Black Krim
Hungarian Heart
Striped German
Principe Borghese
Cole
Emerald Evergreen
Bellestar
Hungarian Italian Paste
Jewish
Candy Sweet Icicle
Cream Sausage
Wentzell

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Post: # 15487Unread post EdieJ
Sun Mar 29, 2020 10:44 pm

Besides my Estler's Mortgage Lifters (that hopefully will hang on for a few more days until we can get them planted,) I just re-started everything.

Slicers:
Big Zebra
KBX
Dixie Golden Giant
Cherokee Chocolate
Big Rainbow
Ponderosa Pink (or is it Pink Ponderosa?)

Cherries:
Chocolate Cherry
Dr. Caro Pink
Bumblebee Mix
Galina's
Sweet Aperitif (gotta have my sugarbombs!)

Peppers:
Red, yellow, orange & purple bells. Didn't mark which were what, I'll plant whatever comes up.
Sweet Banana

We still have a couple of bags of last year's tomatoes in the freezer. Used 1 for soup last night. So good!!
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Post: # 15511Unread post PNW_D
Mon Mar 30, 2020 9:12 am

Started March 8th

TOMATOES:
Sunchocola F1
Brad's Atomic Grape (loved this one last year)
Worry F3 (Dwarf Tomato Project - going back to F3)
Green Grape (Carolyn Male Tribute Project)
Dwarf Firebird Sweet
Uluru Ochre
Fred's Tie Dye (favourite from last year)
Bundaberg Rumball (last minute decision)
Red Lithium (noted as a must grow)
Oud Holland

PEPPERS:
Aleppo
Cajun Belle
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Post: # 15523Unread post Growing Coastal
Mon Mar 30, 2020 10:22 am

All for growing in 8 gal containers.

Brad's Atomic Grape
Esterina
Isis Candy
Sungold for the neighbour's kids
Atomic Fusion *
Adelaide Festival
Boronia
Coastal Pride Orange *
Mr Snow *
Uluru Ochre
Black Bear
Lucid Gem *
Stump of the World

* are new to me.
Started the dwarfs Feb 25th, the rest March 15th.
I always grow at least one extra of each as insurance and give them away.
Also growing a few extras as requested by family and friends.

No peppers this year having way too much in the way of pepper powders now. A friend will give me fresh ones.

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Post: # 15529Unread post JohnJones
Mon Mar 30, 2020 11:50 am

With even a whisper of a blessing from Mother Nature this should be my biggest tomato growing year, both in terms of varieties and numbers.

I had many seeds getting some age on them and some willing helpers so we're trying to replinish or bolster seed stocks and eat a lotta maters in 2020.

With 80 degree temps in the South last week and nothing close to 30's forecast in the next two weeks I decided to push the frost envelope and start planting out. I'm growing in a few locations in a combo of containers and garden. I have over 200 seedlings in various stages (many will be gifted), so there should be plenty of backups when plants go down.

Here goes...

Planted out - Garden:

Black Beauty
Christmas Grapes
Dona F1
Elgin Pink
Eva Purple Ball
Hawaiian Pineapple
Jaune Flame
Lg. Red Cherry
Mikado
Olive Hill
Pink Oxheart
Sailor's Luck
Super Snow White

Planted out - Container:

Dona F1
Dwarf Summer Sunrise
Limbaugh's Legacy PT

Seedlings in waiting:

Akers West Virginia
Arbuznyi
Aunt Ruby's German Green
Beefsteak
Black Cherry
Black Krim
Blondkopfchen
Cherokee Purple
Costoluto Genovese
German Johnson
Girl Girl's Weird Thing
Great White
Green Zebra
Lithium Sunset
Little Lucky
Not Purple Strawberry
Red Zebra
San Marzano
Solar Flare

It's probably obvious based on many of these names that I owe a debt of gratitude to many members here and/or T'ville, especially Marsha. Thanks so much!

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Post: # 15588Unread post AlittleSalt
Tue Mar 31, 2020 2:16 am

Here it is March 31 and the 2 Sweet 100 Cherry F1 have doubled in size after I potted them up. They are getting lanky and early April is too soon to plant them out here normally, but I don't have much choice planting them in 5 gallon buckets. (I can't plant then in-ground due to RKN and Fusarium 3)
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Post: # 15805Unread post Greatgardens
Thu Apr 02, 2020 12:30 am

I've got several balcony varieties ready with tomatoes on them: Linda, Russian Saskatchewan, and Mega Bite. Early dwarfs: Dwarf Pink Passion and Iditarod Red. Patio Choice Yellow F1. And I just started Sunorange and Madera. Also have Neon, Purple Rain F1, and Behold F1 eggplants and King Arthur bell peppers.

Next month I'll start Galahad F1, EM-Champion, "new and improved" Matsu Express, Pervaya Lyubov, and Maglia Rosa. Finally, Stellar F1 (great producer with no cracking, so great shelf life for fall) and a couple of TBDs. So glad I'm cutting back ;-)

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Post: # 15820Unread post PlainJane
Thu Apr 02, 2020 6:50 am

Nice list [mention]JohnJones[/mention] - I’m growing some of the same.
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Post: # 15821Unread post Whwoz
Thu Apr 02, 2020 7:02 am

Starting contemplation for next southern summers grow list. Some that I know will be on it are:

Dana's Dusky Rose
Midnight Sun
Captain Lucky
KARMA Peach
Chang Li Cherry
Blueberries
Costuloto Genovese cultivars 'Sal Valente' and 'Brokenbar'
Duncan's Dutch Pear
Ivory Pear
Garrote Bicolor Aracenes
plus a number of new to me cherries and currents, a couple of other Spanish varieties and some GWR's. May start some of the other Dwarves as well.

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Post: # 15866Unread post Shule
Thu Apr 02, 2020 2:39 pm

I planted way more tomatoes than I had intended! I planned for about 60 plants. I think I planted well over a hundred. I guess I got excited and didn't want to waste mental resources deciding what not to plant (so as to get it done faster and, you know, tomato addiction). So, hopefully I can find room for them. (I should be able to.)

I still need to write down the full list, which I should be able to when I bring them in the house tonight or tomorrow night (it's supposed to be unusually cold for a couple more nights). I don't want to risk the wet seeds freezing and inhibiting germination.
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Post: # 15896Unread post GoDawgs
Thu Apr 02, 2020 5:19 pm

Lots of these are new to me. The emphasis was on finding a good paste tomato, tomatoes that hold up in the heat and finding a new cherry, plus some fun stuff. This is what I started yesterday:

Bella Rosa
Brad's Atomic Grape
Camp Joy Cherry
Cherry Creole Original
Early Annie
Early Girl Bush
German Johnson
Girl Girl’s Wild Thing
Golden Girl
KBX
Mom's Paste
Porter
Rebel Yell
Red Siberian
Rio Grande
Rosella Cherry
Santiago
Stump Of The World
Super Sioux
Ten Fingers of Naples

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Post: # 16024Unread post Shule
Fri Apr 03, 2020 5:25 pm

Okay, here's my tomato growlist:

Here's the actual list of tomatoes that I planted (I enumerated them on 3 April 2020; definitely more than the ~60 planned plants):

[103/104 kinds, depending on whether Moneymaker and Sweet 'N' Bright are the same; 129 plants; some of the extra plants should be genetically unique from others of the same kind, due to not being true-to-type. Very few of these are from store-bought seeds, which is a departure from previous years. Most are from trades/gifts, with a fair amount being from saved seeds. Where I mention their source, that's mostly for me to distinguish them between other seed sources I have, or have had, for the same kind of tomato.]

• Amana Orange (Marsha's)
• Ambrosia Red cross F2 (F1 was yellow, prolific, and gollball-sized, with initially bland, but then great flavor; was prone to cracking; very vigorous)
• Amish Rose
• Amy's Sugar Gem
• Austin's Black Cherry
• B.S.X. (Brandywine Suddeth's x Black Cherry?)
• Bear Creek
• Best Boy F1
• Better Boy F1
• Better Boy F2
• Big Daddy F1
• Black Cherry
• Bloody Butcher (potential mutant/sport)
• Blue Berries
• Blushing Bride
• Bosque Blue
• Bosque Blue Bumblebee
• Box Car Willie
• Brad's Atomic Grape
• Brown Berry
• Carbon (from FarmerShawn)
• Carbon (other source from trade/gift)
• Chadwick Cherry
• Cherokee Yellow Perfection Peach
• Cherokee Yellow Red
• Cherokee Yellow Red Pear
• Chocolate Chestnut
• Chris Ukrainian (SHPC seeds—not from last year's cross)
• Cold Black Brandy
• Cosmic Eclipse
• Crimson Cushion
• Deutscher Fleiss
• Djenna Lee's Golden Girl (from trade/gift)
• Egg Yolk
• Esterina F1
• Eva
• Galapagos Island (antifreeze)
• Galapagos Island (from 5-chamber fruits)
• Garnet
• Giantesque
• Green Gables
• Homestead
• Husky Red F2 (F1 was not rugose)
• Isis Candy
• ISPL (eyegrotom)
• ISPL (FarmerShawn)
• Italian Heirloom
• Japanese Black Trifele
• Jim Dandy cross F2
• Juliet F2
• Karma Pink
• Katja
• KBX
• Kellogg's Beefsteak
• Kellogg's Breakfast (from source with purple tape, newest date of those)
• Large Red Cherry
• Lila Sari
• Lucid Gem
• Luna
• Malakhitovaya Shkatulka
• Malinovoe Chudo
• Margaret Curtain
• Marion, fruit #1 x 4 (saved seeds)
• Marion (SeedsNow packet)
• Marion, fruit B (saved seeds)
• Marion, fruit C (saved seeds)
• Marzano Fire x 2
• Medovaya Kaplya cross F2 (the F1 was an RL red plum with the same sweetness as the original)
• Mexican Yellow cross F3 (probably crossed with Chapman)
• Moneymaker
• Moonglow (from trade/gift)
• Mr. Brown
• My Sweet Plourde
• Napoli x 6
• Neves Azorean Red
• Nineveh
• NM BB cross (Brandy Boy cross F3; PL; dark pink; near-multiflora, from fruit with huge blossom scar, with taste similar to regular Brandyboy F1)
• Old Brooks
• Ovita (doublehelixfarms)
• Ovita (saved seeds)
• Pakenham Pear (from fruit with long shelf-life; lasted until June the next year)
• Pantano Romanesco
• Pierce's Pride
• Pink Cheeks (doublehelixfarms)
• Pink Cheeks (saved seed from container-grown plant)
• Pink Ping Pong
• Polaris
• Porter (2019 saved seeds)
• Prue
• Purple Calabash (Heirloomtomaguy via Tormato)
• Purple Calabash (newer trade/gift source)
• Queen of the Night
• Red Calabash
• Red Oxheart (label said Red Oxheart, but the initial trader called it Pink Oxheart)
• Riesentraube (Baker Creek; red version)
• Rose De Berne
• Rosella
• San Pedro
• Sausage (from 2019, from among six fruits)
• Sheboygan (from an oxheart-shaped fruit)
• Silvery Fir Tree (saved seeds)
• Sprite
• Stellar F2
• Summer of Love
• Sweet 'N' Bright (AKA Hellfrucht)
• Sweet Orange Cherry (saved seed from 2019; Diane Seeds was the original source, labeled Orange Cherry; yellow/gold fruit)
• Sweet Orange Cherry (TomatoFest; picture shows orange fruit; label says Sweet Orange Cherry)
• Taiga
• Tart BB cross, fruit #1 (Brandy Boy cross F3, PL, from a plant with really good, tart, pink fruit)
• Tart Brandy Boy cross, fruit #2 x 3 (Brandy Boy cross F3, PL, from a plant with really good, tart, pink fruit)
• Tart Brandy Boy cross, fruit #3 x 3 (Brandy Boy cross F3, PL, from a plant with really good, tart, pink fruit)
• Trucker's Favorite
• True Black Brandywine (Baker Creek seeds, but was a gift from a forum-user)
• Tundra
• Wild Tiger
• Yellow Plum (from gift or trade)
Location: SW Idaho, USA
Climate: BSk
USDA hardiness zone: 6
Elevation: 2,260 feet

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Post: # 16399Unread post AlittleSalt
Tue Apr 07, 2020 12:44 am

AlittleSalt wrote: Mon Mar 23, 2020 6:36 pm Which tomatoes are you growing when the weather is right in your neck of the woods?

My tomato list:

1 Celebrity F1
1 Early Girl F1
2 Sweet 100 Cherry F1

Peppers:

2 Hot Banana
1 Sweet Banana
1 Sweet Cherry
Those tomato plants were growing sort of lanky, and it was at the point of planting them a little early in the 5 gallon buckets. I was ready - already had frost proof enough covering to use - just a couple of days away ... and then a critter got to them last night.

I really didn't want to grow those plants anyway, but that's what the nursery had. I knew that critters or a dog/cat could turn over a flat of of tomato plants. Stuff happens. Maybe a season without tomatoes will be a good thing? With Covid-19, I'm not getting out to replace the tomato plants. I am stubborn, but not stupid.
Texas Zone 8A

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Post: # 16463Unread post rxkeith
Tue Apr 07, 2020 1:21 pm

up and growing i have from shawns offer

honig susser erlosser
relikvia iz ussuriyska
simo finnland, had to grow this one living in the copper country.

seeded not yet up from shawn

orange all through
annies singapore
dikovinka

also growing

pervaya lyubov planted 10 seeds from 2010, all 10 are up
golden queen usda strain
jds special c tex
matina
blackfoot
prince of blue
sun gold
medovaya kaplya 3 seeds from carloyn from 2009

forgot to mention redfield cherry. came to me from craig lehoullier as redfield beauty, but its not.
possible cross that has always given me a very pretty pink cherry tomato. flavor not quite consistent
from plant to plant. best is sweet followed by tangy. this one is close to being unleashed on the public.

my anna russian project

aili line, small heart shape
lempi line, small red plum
mama helen line, full size pink plum

in the mystery category is a tomato that is coming up in a pot of onion seedlings.
the onion seeds i got last year at a local seed swap. a tomato plant popped up in the
midst of the seedlings. no clue what it is or where it came from. i suppose i'll have to grow it out
to see what the heck it is.



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Post: # 16467Unread post Paulf
Tue Apr 07, 2020 2:35 pm

In the second year of deep cut backs on the number of plants. What used to be a garden of 35 varieties it is now down to 20 of the following 24:

Gift From the Woodlands
Purple Dog Creek
Marianna's Peace
Tidwell German
Amana Pink
Clear Lake Heirloom
Italian Sweet
Paul's Pink Pride
Rebel Yell
Giant Belgium
Rozovyi Kilogram...
Zeke Dishman
Hungarian Heart
Ludmilla's Pink Heart
Indiana Red Heart
Cherokee Chocolate
Nolan Boy's Russian
Japanese Oxheart
Fish Lake Oxheart
Moravski Div
Anna Margaret's Heart
Erdie Family Oxheart
Canadian Heart
Black Bear

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