Tomato Growing 2024

Thanks @JWK one plant per pot it is, plus plenty of water

 

And harvest some fresh seed that may come up next year ?

 

Picspam incoming. Green toms on Balc's Cherry, Sweet 'n' Neat Scarlet Microdwarf and Stunty Bloody Butcher. A big ol' megabloom on Amur Tiger.

 

Pendant ce temps au conservatoire.... A couple of odd-bods. To the left is a dehybridised version of Rosada, a hybrid cherry plum no longer commercially available. A member of my Facebook seed swap group has been maintaining it for around ten years and reckons it's close to the original. To the right is the Brandysweet Plum which turned out to have regular, not potato leaves, so can't be the real McCoy, but I'm in contact with the manager of the seed supplier and have agreed to grow this one on to see what I get. Probably something small, round and red but the plant is lovely and healthy and maybe the fruit will be delicious.

 

I've got confused

Somehow I've managed to confuse the labels. I've not grown a bush type before, so I'm assuming these are a bush type as they have a lot of side shoots already, in fact they are the only bush looking ones I've got. They could either be Tumbling Tom, First in the Field (though I didn't think they germinated), or Ciliegia (the other defo Ciliegias aren't as big). Wondering if any one could identify? I know it's a bit of a long shot, but thanks anyway

 

At last! My tomato seedlings have started to show some movement and begun to grow away.
This is going to be a very late year for cropping.

 

I grew Tumbling Tom last year, but I wasn't very impressed with them, and they didn't even germinate well which was disappointing. I thought it would be useful as I could even have one or two in the house without needing the height that the others have.
You don't nip out the side shoots on those, so it's probably best to just wait and see, as @JWK says.
I looked up First in the Field and it seems to be a vigorous type, so you'd probably see a fairly big difference in a few weeks, because of the growth habit, compared to the T. Tom.
If your other Ciliegias are smaller, it does tend to suggest it isn't those though

 

All my front-of-house toms are out, just in time for the foolishly large white oriental poppies to make an appearance. In the big pot are
Britain's Breakfast and Amy's Apricot. In the ground are Iva's Red Berry, Dwarf Bendigo Dawn, Dwarf Franklin County, Dwarf Audrey's Love, Gardener's Ecstasy, Bolivian Orange Cherry and Haley's Sweet Mystery.

 

Balc's Cherry has shoots growing out of the spines of the lower leaves. I can't find anything specific online, but I have a lurking memory fragment of reading that it's connected to wild genes. Interesting...

 

I've seen that on Marmande.

 

Some varieties do weird things. I grew Red Cherry and it formed additional flower trusses from the tips of the leaves.

 

Ah, now that's something I see quite a lot of. Santorini is prone to it and I've already noticed it this year on Amur Tiger.

 

I get lots of them on mine, especially toward the end of the season.
Just snap them off.

 

I can't see how they'd ever make viable fruit, as the very bottom leaves will wear out/ be pruned off quite quickly. I suppose that in a wild setting, the plant would be scrambling over the ground and the leaf-shoots might be able to form their own roots.