2017 Tomato Growing

Not really, a lot of potch. I went away for 2 weeks and my plot neighbour has rigged up a cane frame and tied them to it..

 

104 deg F!

My rule of thumb is try and keep to max 80 deg F. Does that tunnel just have a single door st one end? I reckon on a double door at each end, or only one door if there's also side vents.

 

2 doors either end..one is constantly open now and the other one is blocked by someone else's tomatoes.. the top half has been cut and has green netting over it.

 

Mine appear ok with the heat but the two bottom branches have started growing like mad, the peepers look a little stressed though.

 

It is a very sad day for me today. I have to remove 20~ish determinate tomato plants from a bed since I found signs of blight on them.

It seems that determinate tomatoes are not suitable for bed planting. Their leaves are spreading all over the bed surface like bedding plants. It is impossible to avoid leaf-soil contact which can be easily achieved on indeterminate tomato plants. And when watering it is also very hard to keep the leaves dry.

Maybe determinate tomatoes are only for pots and baskets.

 

I moved other person's toms out of the way and opened the other door.. thank god they didn't mind, temp dropped to 35c.. still bit too hot yeah?

Other person's toms don't seem to be suffering, I'm wondering if its because I'm growing weird types, all the purple ones seem to be really curly.

 

Those thin curly leaves are caused by the soil drying out, some varieties may be more susceptable than others, and maybe yours have been subject to irregular watering whilst you were away, something that could also cause blossom end rot.

Something of interest is that the drying out of soil that causes thin, curled leaves can permanently affect a tomato plant, and even completely new leaves will continue to grow like this. I think I've read the plant's DNA gets damaged.

 

Big flower on my Angelina's bouncing Bulgarian

 

Carmello and Paul Robeson plants are going strong outdoors. Wish the heat wave never goes

 

Morrisons "Grape" cherry tomato.


Gigantomo beefsteak tomato - the main plants.


Gigantomo beefsteak tomato - the contingencies.



I confess that I have never grown a beefsteak tomato before so this will be a task of formulating a growing plan for next year based on this year's observation.

 

Please may I ask ... do you pinch out side shoots from Tumbling Toms?
The growth on mine is romping away - such a huge difference from 2016 - but I think I may need to "concentrate" their thoughts
Advice please

 

I would, an pot them on as cuttings, more plants

 

Tumbling tom is a determine type, so branches freely and you can leave the branches on and get the most fruit by allowing it to grow bushy.
However, as blacktulip has found, determinate/bush type tomatoes tend to have lots of leaves on the ground, which makes it vulnerable for picking up blight and then giving it to the rest of your toms.

 

Tidied up and side shooted some of the plants, didn't side shoot me plums as there are so many flowers on em.



Is this one of they megablooms?



This Candytom is producing more flowers, but the plant isn't getting much bigger, despite feeding

 

A few toms.....