Tomato Growing Competition 2012

Blowing a gale outside so i've brought mine back in.

 

Ziggy, storm force winds predicted tonight, shelter your delicates please folks

 

Getting fruit setting now but would anyone notice if I painted one of my Kelsae onions Red?
Onions doing really well in this wet weather, Tomatoes struggling at the mo but hanging in there :(

 

Got one the size of a Marble. Outdoor Money makers are bigger

 

Plenty of time yet for bigguns.

 

Ooh - looks like Ive got megablooms ! Im so proud of my little plants ! now all I need is for the sun to come out more than once a week..


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Is that on your Brandywine tomato plant?

A few of my megablooms:

Phil's Fantastic (yes, that's all one flower!);



Mortgage Lifter:



Unamed varitiey (but supposed to grow big:



Big Zac F2+:



Brandywine (pink - Sudduth's strain):



Omars Lebanese:



P.S. No megablooms open on the ones growing outdoors yet.

P.P.S. Will be saving seed from all of these and some other likely candidates for bigguns, so hopefully will have loads of spares for next year - How are the Phil's Fantastics doing from the seeds I sent out this year?

P.P.P.S. 'Scuse my grubby nails, but I've been sowing several hundred pots with the seeds 'first knuckle' depth.

 

Think so - I really should have labeled them ... you would think I would learn !

 

Same here John

 

Grow varieties that are known to have a high incidence of megablooms, but aren't you growing Delicious which is amongst those known for producing them? No megablooms on my Delicious plants yet, not even sure if there's any flowers at all yet - will have to check.

EDIT: Only one single standard bloom on my Delicious plants, but I've now found megablooms on my Giant Belgium and Marianna's Peace plants.

 

A couple of megablooms on my Delicious, none on my Big Boys but then I had none on the Big Boys last year and still got some whoppers.