Tomatoes and Eggplants growing fast
Peter (6b SE NY)
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Comments (4)As far as I've heard (other than yesilee04 above, which I'm curious to hear more about) eggplants and tomatoes are not known to cross. They are in the Solanum genus, however (so, it's perhaps possible). I wouldn't count on it, though (let alone on it crossing well or easily). You certainly shouldn't have to worry about isolating your eggplants and your tomatoes from each other. If you do happen to get such a cross, you should take a lot of pictures and post them (and definitely save seeds from it to grow again and distribute). I'm doubtful of the mentioned cross between a pepper and an eggplant. Eggplants can be toxic if they are overripe or underripe, and the neurotoxins (which can cause your throat to burn) may have been mistaken for capsaicin. If this happens, please don't eat that eggplant. I did that once, and it made me kind of sick for about a week (though the only symptom the first day was my throat burning). Most of the toxins in eggplants are right under the skin or so, I've read. So, peeling the eggplants is supposed to be a great precaution against ingesting too many toxins. If your eggplant is so ripe that it has changed colors, don't eat it (it's too ripe). Generally, you're supposed to pick them soon after they stop growing (or thereabouts), unless you're saving them for seeds. As for what crosses well with tomatoes, generally the only things I know about are other tomatoes and many species of wild tomatoes (there are some wild tomatoes that don't cross easily, however). There is only one species of domestic tomato (if you don't count the inter-species crosses as other species of domestic tomatoes). If you cross a white beefsteak with a yellow pear tomato, I'm not sure what you would get. I would guess a yellow pear, but I could be wrong. Whatever the case, if you grow out the F2 seeds (enough of them) you should get plants with different combinations of the traits, and you may end up with a white pear plant in the F2 generation....See MoreFast-growing fruit tree for kids to grow
Comments (2)Maybe you should try the fruit and orchard forum. I don't know of any tree that is that fast to go to fruit, it takes at least a few years. Maybe some kind of berry like a strawberry? What about peppers or cherry tomatoes or beans? See if they have some better ideas over there. Also there are a few other edible type forums here you might scan through. Maybe you could call a company like Pinetree Seeds or Johnny's and see if they can recommend something. Also, some of these seed companies have days to harvest in their catalog. Radishes and lettuce grow very fast but I'm not sure how much kids will like a radish. At least they are colorful. There are colorful lettuces too. I grew crabapples with my kids once. We germinated the seeds in the refrigerator in a moist towel placed in a ziplock. It took 5 months just for the roots to show. After that, they only grow a few inches a year until they take. Here is a link that might be useful: fruit and orchard forum...See MoreGrowing Tomatoes and Eggplant together?
Comments (1)No, no problems. Good luck with both. Dave...See Moretomato plants growing too fast
Comments (7)If you can't handle the size I'd transplant them as Dave said which might them back a week. Suspend the nitrogen fertilizer for a while, too similar to Sey's thought. Could they be grown in a cooler place? Another thing to do that is not as drastic as taking cuttings is every other day working from the bottom up to cleanly trim one bottom leaf petiole off the stem until only the smaller ones are at the top, but doing it gradually. That will make them more easy to manage and they should be well healed and you can then plant them quite deep and/or trenched if you have that depth available come transplant time. Hope that gives you more ideas. Another idea, if you have any yellow bulbs, swap them out for blue bulbs 5000-6500 K in their place. If some plants are too high, you can raise the lower ones or they will get even more leggy, but keep the lights as close as possible so plants feel less pressure to "reach" on leggy tippie-toes. PC PS I think you could cut back on the lights if the place is cool and dry enough and you have a room to put them in that is demonstrably pitch black in darkness but I don't know if the plant would still get taller in that environment. So that's an experiment you're probably not able to do. PPS Start a few more seeds immediately if you still have room, for added insurance ;-)...See Moredaniel_nyc
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