Tomato Growing Thread 2012

To boldly go FC. You're the boss!!

 

John: Mine are in 1L pots, and huddled pretty close together. They are about waist height - haven't looked closely, but perhaps second truss has formed, and the first has been in flower for a week, maybe longer. They have a split cane for support (so about 1/3rd to 1/2 their height only).

Normally I reckon they would be in 2L or bigger by now, and with a 4' or 6' cane for company ...

You said the other day not to spoil them, and I'm pretty sure mine are that! A bit of yellowing of the leaf ... but they definitely look a bit drawn, although I suspect that's the lack of light, and rareness of decent daytime greenhouse temperatures so far this Spring ...

Should I be rushing to pot them on? (they are kind-of at the back of the jobs queue at the mo.)

 

Good appraisal John, makes sense now I read your thinking.

Don't think I have any Rose pots left, I have used so many this year for bulbs that couldn't go out because of wet or some other reason - the most common one being artistic discord! between me, the Under Gardener, and the Head Gardener, and compromising on planning to plant-out when in flower when we can be sure of choosing the best location and companions.

The cropping greenhouse is full of 1L hedge plants:



I'm wanting to give them greenhouse space for as long as possible to get maximum Spring-boost in height, hoping to have the hedge plants big enough to go out in the Autumn ... so I'll pot on pronto and may even get them to 9" or 12" before planting them out [in greenhouse border] in June. That will give them a bit of fresh fuel, in the new MP compost, and a decent length cane too.

Actually ... I have stacks and stacks of those square green rose pots characteristic of a brand of roses that is so famous ... that I've momentarily forgotten the name!

I think they may be taller than my greenhouse border is deep though ... perhaps they would be ideal as a ring-culture pot with the bottoms sawn off as discussed earlier on.

 

Mine are indoors : (

 

We are in a mobile home, JWK, I have two gardens either side and did have a plastic greenhouse but they are not cheap and thay rot in the sun. B&Q want £100 for an instant pop-up one. My wife has the use of large g/houses where she works as a stopgap but I no longer have a workvan now, I just cycle to work ( I love it but ..no good for moving veg pots about haha)
There's a bad storm forecast over tonight but they have been indoors for nearly two weeks now.. M

 

Mine are in the south facing bedroom still and though the first flower clusters are free of the stem, no sign of flowers plumping up at all. Too grey for them AND ME!!

 

When I watered them this morning I saw that they are actually in 2L pots, so you were quite right that 1L was inprobable ... but I plan tol shift them to 4L this weekend.

I know I'm mad ... no need to rub it in!

Most of the Holm Oak hedging (cell grown plants bought last Autumn) was big enough that it went straight out, but part of that "feature" will need replacement of some of our perimeter hedge (mixed, gappy, and not redemable) and will need some larger plants so that they jump-start. And the Holly is likely to be nibbled I think, so I want larger starter plants for them too (and some of the curves-and-turns of the Labrynth I am going to plant will also replace the existing perimeter hedge - so, again, I want decent sized plants).

Can't afford a fiver-a-go for decent sized plants, so these quid-a-shot ones will need to become fiver-plants first

 

You remind me of Spock Kristen - very logical in your approach.Look forward to seeing pictures of this project IDC,

 

There's pictures on my blog (although not of the bits I haven't done yet!)

 

better weather tmorow, so my three buckets are going outside before I go to work..and the bucket of cues...they dont know yet! (evil laugh..