2013 Tomato Growing

That's him Freddy

 

Hiya Loli.

Hard to tell from the pic. Is it an 'average' size?

 

@Freddy ...Yes ,just a medium sized tomato

 

Hmm, might put that on my list for next year

 

I tell what i've noticed this year that i haven't had before.....my big tomatoes are obviously heavy so naturally they have been supported to take the weight but on my 'normal' tomatoes many of the trusses aren't strong enough to support even the smallest of tomatoes and have collapsed ...not snapped but 'folded' for want of a better word.....i've done nothing different this year to any other and at the moment they don't look to be suffering but it can't be doing them any good....any ideas please

 

Is that outside plants or in the greenhouse?

 

In the GH Zig.....

 

Bang goes that theory then, wondered if it was the extra nitrogen from the thunderstorms the other week.

 

As I posted somewhere earlier, last year I selected the largest Koralik tomatoes for seed saving and I've got a noticeable increase in size of tomatoes on most of the Koralik plants grown using that seed. I know @shiney grows this variety and I've found a post where @JWK said he was thinking of growing them, so how does the size of this compare to your Koraliks? (and are they also more 'round'?)




Again this year I'll be saving seeds from only the biggest of fruits, or to be more specific, onlt saving seeds from fruits from plants on which all the tomatoes are the largest.

 

Cor, great crop John

Pretty sure Black Krim was a character in the Pirates of the Carribean

 

I'm not going to taste them until I get a few to seed save from, but these tiddlers were rather lacking in flavour (unless roasted with garlic) last year

Once again I'm not bothering to spray them with Bordeaux Mixture so I can check out blight resistance.