AmateurInAwe's Garden

[Amateurinawe]

The greenhouse tomatoes are coming on nicely too, a little too much growth, it's gonna be cramped in there....

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[bower]

Love the outdoor depth experiments, I expect you will get some huge rewards from that.
Your pots are black so they will absorb heat from the sun. The whole plant is going to benefit hugely from warmth alone.
Yum yum yum you're gonna eat well from those plants.

[Amateurinawe]

I couldn't resist it, so I did a few more. So all in all, 5 pots to see what adventitious rooting can do in terms of output, plant size, growth etc. Paired with their neighbour which is the same stock.

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[Amateurinawe]

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A week later, blooming nicely...

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Slowly but surely..

[Amateurinawe]

Week one of adventitious rooting. No appreciable difference between plants and their neighbour....

[GoDawgs]

@Amateurinawe , what is SMFL? Great Day! I've never seen that many flower clusters on a tomato before!

[Amateurinawe]

@GoDawgs courtesy of @Nico . I think he called it broccoli tomato (S.M.F.L.) Which might be SUper Multi Flora but I'm guessing. It looks lovely but tastes nothing like broccoli.

I suspect it will take a lot of feeding and it is still growing with more clusters growing.

[Amateurinawe]

Some crosses attempted today

SMFL and Tasmanian chocolate
Black Russian and Fred Limbaugh

Fingers and toes crossed

[Tormato]

So where's Dolly? You dumped her for the latest greatest tomato floozies?

[Amateurinawe]

@Tormato On no gary, Dolly is in the greenhouse penthouse with the cherokees.

[Amateurinawe]

@Tormato On no gary, Dolly is in the greenhouse penthouse with the cherokees.

[Tormato]

Was that a Freudian slip with the twin posts?

[GoDawgs]

Sounds like Dolly is whooping it up in the greenhouse.

[Amateurinawe]

10 days away house sitting with only 1 visit to water and feed the greenhouse, and the place looks like a jungle out there.
1) get my toothbrush out, there are just so many blossoms to agitate, check crosses and do some more
2) do a bit of thinning, check for any old leaves or signs of disease.
3) tie up some of the new growth outside to keep them supported, greenhouse plants need diverting from upward path as they've now reached the top.
4) weed (so many volunteers springing up) and then feed

I'd lost two plants with a stem rot, Brown band around the base of two plants and they showed signs of wilting so snipped them pronto. Sure enough the stem at base was hollow. Both had abundance of side shoots at base of plant which were previously snipped off, either the wounds got infected or the area is too damp close to the base. Make a note to dig out the soil next year in that area.

Oh and need to check on growth comparison on adventitiou s rooting plants.

[Amateurinawe]

This hand pollinating lark sure does take a long time....

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[Tormato]

This hand pollinating lark sure does take a long time....
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You'e going about it all wrong. Get one of these, and wrap it round your planters.
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[Amateurinawe]

Today's !esson: When crossing one variety with an SMFL, do not rely on trimming the sepals as the only way to identify which ones were crossed !

[Amateurinawe]

I did eventually find two of the ones that I had crossed, but then I had to go inside to gets some ribbon in which to mark them and , well, I forgot where they were....

[GoDawgs]

I did eventually find two of the ones that I had crossed, but then I had to go inside to gets some ribbon in which to mark them and , well, I forgot where they were....

I'm glad I'm not the only one who does things like this.

[Amateurinawe]

The GOOD

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The BAD

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This is the Anne Boleyn of tomatoes...

And the UGLY

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Diddle diddle dum, wah wah waaahhh