Tomatoes sprouting from last year's plants
dianelouise85
16 years ago
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Tomatoes planted where last year's tomatoes grew?
Comments (5)I haven't grown potatoes, except in 55 gallon plastic drums. I have raised beds and containers and have been growing tomatoes in the same spots for about 8 years. This year (last fall) I "sacrificed" 1 tomato bed to plant 10 varieties of garlic... YES, it really hurt me to do it! The only real rotation I do is on the 4-gallon containers; I try to dump 1/2 to 2/3rds of the mix where I grow pumpkins, reuse the rest of the mix and the tomato containers for peppers, and v.versa, use the pepper containers for the tomatoes. Most of the pumpkin "patch" is compost, at least the top foot or so, and the tomato & pepper mix was about 2/3rd ProMix BX or Fafard's and the rest compost, so it helps bind the compost together. That's about the extent of my crop rotation. I think the biggest concerns with tomatoes/potatoes is Blights. That's why they recommend not following one with the other. Early blight is pretty common. Late blight isn't much, at least not in my area. Tilling the soil doesn't help the problem--it's been recommended to actually try to "flip" the soil to "bury" any traces of EB that was on the surface that can splash back up, since it's mainly a foliar disease. I don't have any real personal experience with late blight, though one year I grew All Blue potatoes in the drum and the symptoms may have appeared, in the drum, as the plants died "almost overnight," turning dark green to almost black with the consistency & texture of slimy, overcooked broccoli. I was using soil & soilless mix in the bottom, covered by shredded straw. The tomatoes 10 feet away were perfectly healthy. I haven't tried growing potatoes since. Also, systemic diseases can build up over time and get worse, but sometimes they are harder to cure, short of replacing the soil. Hope this helps....See MorePlanted German Queen last year and got ? this year?
Comments (10)And yellow flesh/unknown epidermal color dominant over red flesh/clear epidermis in the F1? ****** German Queen ( pink) X ????? could give something small and yellow for we don't even know if we're looking at an F1 hybrid or disseminated F2 seeds. I see the poster has just said that his volunteer has RL foliage and I guess I'm to assume that the others did as well. (Bill, who asks the question sincerely since he has but very limited formal education in genetics.) I have no formal training in tomato genetics either Bill, human and bacterial and viral genetics yes, but over the years I've gathered together some information, just as you have. When the origin of something is not clear, as it appears in this case, it's hard to make absolute statements, as I'm sure you can appreciate. We could both set up scenarios for an F1 hybrid between GQ and???? as well as what might appear in the F2, from disseminated seeds. You can if you want to do that. And yes, red is dominant to pink in the F1 which was your question, but that doesn't answer the scenario posed here in it's entirety. Carolyn...See MoreTomatoes sprouting from last year
Comments (7)I saved some a few years ago and all but one turned into normal sun gold cherry tomatoes just like I had the prior year. The other turned out the be a hybrid between the sun golds and the bush/patio tomatoes I had the prior year. It was your typical stocky patio tomato plant but when the fruit ripened instead of red tomatoes I got orange colored like the sun gold cherries. Flavor wasn't as sweet as the sun golds though. So if you planted multiple varieties of tomatoes the prior year you might get some unexpected hybrids....See MoreID this plant from cutting please,Last year I got cutting from Oregon
Comments (2)Phlox paniculata I would say....See Moretimmy1
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