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Here are my Tomato's so far they are as big as my fist! Hopefull they will hang on until Picking!!! I hope this works:
Now let me show you a picture of the problem I have with these plants, they are about 5ft tall but they are sooooooo spindly! THey are as thin as a pinky!!
You can see the shorter one that is really nice and bushy is in such a SMALL planter, and it is the one with the HUGE maters on it, and the stalk is THICK! So I don't think it is the size of my other Bigger planters, I really think I started out with Poor soil, and Chlorinated City Water! The bushy plant was given to me a few months ago from my mother, Using well water....
I am soooooooooooo excited for the tomato's I do have!! This is MY FIRST time planting anything!!!! Sorry the pics are sooooo big!!!
Ninni
Plants: 120 | From: NY | Registered: May 2005
| Seeded: 24.161.44.42
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For years and too many years of growing plants in the house, I like to work a plant up in pot size. It seems to retain a more compact nature that way. I'm sure there's a reason.
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| Seeded: 64.136.27.226
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I pulled "Comes a Time" earlier today and have Arlo Guthrie in right now.
* * * * Currently listening to: Vince Guaraldi Trio -- A Charlie Brown Christmas. Adult and contemporary but evocative of youth and innocence, a must own CD. Plants: 191 | From: S/W Michigan | Registered: Jun 2005
| Seeded: 64.136.26.235
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Beautiful tomatoes. In pots I have found that pruning as they are first growing gives you bushier plants. But you are getting great fruit so just keep them staked and they should make it to a beautiful red!
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| Seeded: 69.30.152.15
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Big indeterminate tomato plants, ones that keep producing all season long need about 1 cu. ft. of soil to produce like they would if grown in the ground. The plant on the right might be a determinate plant which grows smaller and produces all at once or perhaps it has more of a dwarf-type growth habit. Without knowing the varieties, it's hard to say.
The only tomatoes I have growing in pots the size of yours are dwarfs, ones that won't get higher than 3' at most. I have 11 others in 1 cu. ft. containers and most are over 7' tall. I've compared yield from those to what I'm getting in the raised bed and they're comparable. My 1 cu. ft. container plants have suffered more from various foliage diseases, though. That might be due to uneven watering and more exposure to high winds during thunderstorms. The soil used was new pro-mix, so there weren't pre-existing diseases like can happen in garden soil.
ninniwinky, depending on where you are in NY, if you're getting a lot of heat/humidity, you may want to put those containers in a saucer and mulch with straw or grass clippings for increased water retention. Just a thought.
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thats a really good Idea juliana, we have been DRY here, EXTREMELY humid too!!
Thanks!!
ninni
PS. Two of them are now ripe!!!! Maybe I will take a pic of them on the vine and upload them!!!!
Plants: 120 | From: NY | Registered: May 2005
| Seeded: 24.161.44.42
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I picked my first two tomato's today!!!! Remember, the green ones everyone was telling me to make fried green tomato's with?????? Well now they are a beautiful red! YIPPEE!! This is my first year of growing ANYTHING, EVER!!!!!!
Ninni
Plants: 120 | From: NY | Registered: May 2005
| Seeded: 24.161.44.42
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