Tomato Growing Thread 2012

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  1. robbo

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    Bought myself some chasworth garden delight seeds and one of them plastic standy up greenhouse type things yesterday,would it be ok to start the seeds off now in a little heated propogater ive required and then when established move them to that then eventually into pots to be grown outside,have grown outside toms before but usually buy the ready grown plants from the local boot sale.cheers
     
  2. Kristen

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    You need to keep Tomato plants above 10C ... so it will be a while before they can go outside (even in a polythene mini-growhouse, unless it has some heat). You could bring them in for the night when the temperature will fall below 10C though - they don't nee any light at night, so a utility room / corridor etc. would do.

    The seedlings will be a 6 weeks before they are too big for a windowsill I would guess - and perhaps start of May they could be safe in your mini-growhouse, so it won't be much faff doing in-and-out after they get too big for windowsill). I'd give it a go :)
     
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    • Bimble

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      Got some Pink Brandywine myself :blue thumb:
      Along with some Christmas Grapes, Bloody Butcher, Gardeners Delight, Roma VF, all seeds sown have germinated well.
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    • j.r

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      im growing

      red delicous
      golden jubilee
      white beauty
      black krim
      and unamed variety that was supposed to be pineapple but grew like raf but is red
       
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      • Jack McHammocklashing

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        HomeBase are selling all the weirdy ones this week 3"high 98p
        Weirdy ones = tigrella, black cherry, purple thingy, tornado,filante,sungold, yellow, Oh all sorts of that type of tom, no "normal" ones yet

        I will not be using the plant route this year Kristen, has seen me well with seeds, so I put them in propogators today, window sill 23 c as my coldhouse is 24c day 2c night

        Jack McH
         
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        • Phil A

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          i've had mine out in the greenhouse for over a week now. They wilted a bit when we had a frost last saturday but have picked up again well now. Moved them into the top shelf of the blowaway thats inside the greenhouse to stop that happening again.
           
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          • kevinm

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            Lately added Brandywine (Sudduth) and Sungold F1 to my list for this year.
             
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            • OxfordNick

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              My seedlings have only just made an appearance, so wont be going outside for a couple of weeks yet. I did rearrange things & put up the blowaway greenhouse ready for their arrival ; it clocked a rather scary max temp of 41'c yesterday (and a min of 4'c, although it was probably colder last night) so Im going to experiment with a couple of old PC case fans + a solar panel to try to keep the temperature down... cant do much about bringing it up at night other than wait
               
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              • Phil A

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                I've done that Nick,

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                Takes the edge off the temperature.
                 
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                • JWK

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                  Good idea to check before putting the seedlings inside, they would get fried at that temp Nick. I've got a blowaway inside my glass greenhouse at the moment, today it got to 30 deg C inside the blowaway which is at the limit. Got a heated propagator on a timer in the bottom just to keep the temp a couple of degrees higher than ambient at night.
                   
                • Phil A

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                  This sunshine has made a real difference to the plants, the window sill ones are going mental & the outside one has set a fruit, good new growth on it too, mind you, i've been feeding it too.
                   
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                  One of mine has flowered today, they love this hot weather.
                   
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                  • JWK

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                    It must be a very sheltered position. What variety is it Ziggy?
                     
                  • Phil A

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                    Orrible feeling that its a "Money Maker" that I didn't sell last year:sad:
                     
                  • JWK

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                    Didn't make you any money then, but you never know your luck, it might turn out to be something (anything) that is tasty.
                     
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