Tomato Growing Thread 2022

I'm, well the gardener, is carrying our second sowing of Crimson Crush up into the greenhouse to harden off. They are outdoor, blight resistant and, for me, bush tomatoes so hopefully will produce fruit.
Curiously upon analysis of germination/early growth, the most prolific this year are the Roma that came with Gardeners World magazine! So much for my 'in depth analysis'! Next year I'm going to drop the editor a line and ask for a list of seeds!

 

Did you grow them from seed or did you buy plants.
I've grown bought plants in the past and often they don't really take off as you would expect.

 

Blue Nun! Ha! Once used a pub/restaurant in North Wales that was close to our Climbing Club Hut, who had a cellar full of the stuff! Evrerone had their own bottle of it with every meal! Not sure it would support Tom's though as it didn't support me!
Question though! Never grown Beef Tom's before and read here that fruits should be supported with nets? Given , well the gardener has, two stonking plants, so where do I get such nets please?

 

I'm beginning to wonder how big these Tomande are going to be, hopefully not big enough to require supporting.

 

Checked over the rest of the plants and there isn't a single one that doesn't have leaves like this.



It looks like classic underwatering, but seeing as though the roots of every plant grows into the reservoir so have a constant supply of water I can only guess it's something else to add to the blight.

bugger...seriously thinking about pulling the lot and being done with it, but there are so many lovely toms on the trusses and my Alicante is just starting to ripen I can't bring myself to do it.

Let the torture continue.

 

Yet another year I have a couple of tomato plants with two growing points if you get what I mean.I've religiously removed the robbers still don't know why this happens it never used to happen back in the day..I wonder why

 

I am trying to grow a few Heritage varieties for the plate.
There is the Tigerella, Sweet Millions, and Tumbling Tom red.
Never tried before so can but wait and see.

 

@JWK I've had the Quadgrows for years and they have worked great previously, both outdoors and in the greenhouse.

Strange you said you flushed out your octogrow system because I have done the same with the Quadgrow about 30 minutes ago, I noticed a film floating on the water surface, very strange with a rainbow effect when it catches the light, when touched it would break up into smaller pieces.

Very strange as I have never had it before with the Quadgrow.

Do you know what caused the salt build up?

Wonder if there is something wrong with the Nutrigrow feed.

 

I need to do another flush as there is still some of the film left.

Did your salt build up look like this.