Wintersown Tomatoes and Progress.....14 pics

15 years ago

Actually some were partially wintersown. Sown in their wintersow gallon jugs and put outdoors on March 23rd/24th. Normally they would have stayed out all the way through, but with our unseasonably cool Apr/May weather I brought the containers in for 3-4 consecutive nights. All were straight back outside upon radical emergence to finish off :)

All seedlings planted out in the 1st-3rd true leaf stage on May 17th. The first sowing of Black Cherry were duds and re-sown (thanks to strmywthr's donation of seed)on May 15th and planted June 11th.

To compare, my neighbors FFA student greenhouse peppers that she bought and planted a week after mine starting fruiting appx. 1 week earlier than mine (they were older). However her plants were also not in very good health...pretty spindly. Today mine are approximately 3-4' tall, trained to one or 2 vines depending, all in the ground (brand new bed amended with rabbit manure/bedding mix) except 2 Wisconsin 55 in 5 gal. containers and Black Cherry in another mixed bed.

Anyhoo here they are as of July 14th.

Tiger-like

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La Rossa Paste

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Brandywine

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Wisconsin 55

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Black Cherry; just starting to form flowers

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Going back to show progress. Here are the Brandywine and Tiger-Like in their original ws conatiners on May 10th.

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Brandywine on May 17th (planting day)

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Wisconsin 55 on May 20th

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Zapotec Pleated, Wisconsin 55 and La Rossa Paste on June 5th

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The new bed with Brandywine, Tiger-like and Zapotec Pleated on June 7th

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Wisconsin 55 June 25th

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The tomato row on same date. Can you tell Sunflowers were planted her last year? LOL! I left some to grow on the north side...heck might need to extra support :O

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Thanks for letting me share and thanks again Trudi for the seeds :))

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trudi_d
15 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
They look great Vera.

Can you please give me some further info on the first set of Black Cherry seeds--do you think the seeds were infertile or did they sprout and then fail after germination, or maybe something else? They're a great variety and I would like to continue sharing Black Cherry on the list so at season's end I'll weigh all the feedback on BC and maybe try a new stock line.

T
tom8olvr
15 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
OMG those little guys in the milk jugs are so cute!!!

Awwwwwww!
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Thank you Melissa, I'll be delighted to share your seeds in the futire ;-) Go BigDaddy! I started planting out my maters about ten days ago--this can go on for a month here, lol. I've been slow in getting the beds ready, but I've been busy improving soil with grass clippings buried in trenches under the surface. I've already got 40 plants in the ground and probably as many more to go. WS tomatoes are so easy to do--in the beginning it's nerve wracking as you wait for germination; and planting out smaller seedlings is unusual if you're used to indoor-started or purchased transplants, but WS toms have awesome root systems which are really cool. That's a WS pun, hehehe. One of the GRIN maters I'm doing this year, called ISLEA, sprouted on March 30th--they went into the ground a few days ago with buds, I have a few others that also have buds so this is an exciting season here. Good luck to all from WinterSown! Vive la FreezeSeed!
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trudi_d
15 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
"OMG those little guys in the milk jugs are so cute!!!
Awwwwwww!"

YEAH!
vera_eastern_wa
Original Author
15 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
Hi Trudi,

They never germinated period. After reading around on different forums and such I noted lot of folks talking about the low germination rate of this particular tomato. Maybe there is some truth to that. I sowed them all; how many were in the packet I can't remember. Out of strmywthr's seeds I only got 4 seedlings out of appx. 10 seeds sown.

Vera
buck1173
15 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
I ws'd black cherry and it was a relatively low rate of germination for me too... though I did manage to get one in the ground.
carolyn137
15 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
They never germinated period. After reading around on different forums and such I noted lot of folks talking about the low germination rate of this particular tomato. Maybe there is some truth to that. I sowed them all; how many were in the packet I can't remember. Out of strmywthr's seeds I only got 4 seedlings out of appx. 10 seeds sown.

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Vera, there was low germination with Black Cherry when TGS first offered it as bred by Vince Sapp, deceased husband of Linda Sapp who still runs TGS, b'c as Linda said, their own seed production for it wasn't all that good and there were too many immature seeds.

But if anyone saves their own seed from Black Cherry and processes the seed correctly by fermentation or some other method then germination is usually close to 100% with relatively fresh seed.

So I assume what you read referred to the initial situation with TGS, and that was true, but that was then and this is now and there no longer should be any trouble.

And of course I know nothing about the seeds you got from stormyweather and if she processed them or got them elsewhere.

Hope that helps.

Carolyn
trudi_d
15 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
Hmmm... I think I have to do a growout next year of these to replenish my stock, unless I do it this season--I think there's still time to get some fruits by the end of season.
vera_eastern_wa
Original Author
15 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
I have no idea of what your referring too Carolyn. Never heard of this person.
The information I was reading were threads posted withing the last year of various gardeners on different forums.

Vera

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