Tomato Growing Thread 2022

Lovely hauls! I've still only had a few bloody butchers and sungolds. The rest are green but mainly looking good.

 

Yes I am very much looking forward to trying the siberian ones, the bigger beefsteak and oxheart ones especially. Compared to the Costoluto Fiorentino that is RHS AGM which I am also growing they are being vastly more productive.

Of course there is still plenty of time for the harvest to be reduced and they might be bland

 

I tipped out a Tomato plant that had gone floppy/died, at the bottom of the pot was 2 small Green Tomatoes or were they Potatoes? Or has the Sun really go to me

 

24hrs in a darkened room and I'm sure you will feel much better.

 

Nope, It was a packet of Alicante seeds.
I think Pete is right, I should go to a darken room.

 

@Loofah My toms were burned almost to a crisp yesterday with the extremely hot wind we had all day. Look what's happened to my poor plants:
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This was caused by the extremely hot air not by lack of water in the growbags, I'd watered them at 9am & this is how they looked at about 7.30pm. I guess I won't be harvesting many tomatoes this year!
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difficult to see but the tips of my Sungolds got way too hot in yesterdays heatwave. I moved the parasol over to shade them but quite a few tops have shrivelled and , in spite of copious watering, they have nor recovered. Should I cut them off?

 

Snap @Balc - we posted the same dilemma at the same time.
Jenny namaste

 

My toms on the allotment took full sun all day and they are still ok, I did water them on Monday though.
I moved one container plant into the semi shade yesterday morning as it was starting to droop at the top. That one is ok now also.

 

I can't do that any more as the stems that have now been burned were the replacements for the original wilted stems! I'll just have to see if they recover & continue to grow & flower & see if I get a few tomatoes. The few that were already growing will probably end up with BER!
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Just wonder if the problem is radiated heat off the wall.
I thought I saw them against a wall in one of your pictures @Balc the airflow around the back of the plants would be non existent or at best very hot.