Fun little "experiment" with extra tomatoes - Black Krim
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Comments (35)Upstate NY here. I grew CP in 2021, and loved it. Produced well, but that was a good year for all of my tomatoes. Not so in 2022. Summer 2022 was superhot and dry here, mid-90's may days in a row with no rain (a town of Kingston, NY, 2 hr away from us declared a state of emergency, prohibiting lawn watering, and only allowing outdoors flower watering after 9pm when nobody would bother watering anyway, very scary stuff). Both BK and CP produced well in hot summer of 2022, upstate NY (well, with me heavy mulching, and daily watering). CP produced larger tomatoes. BK seemed to last longer than CP, almost up to the first frost. Taste was almost identical. Doing blind test, I couldn't tell the difference. CP did slightly better, but I overplanted BK, planting them too close to each other, so no final verdict yet. This year, 2023, I will try again. Problem is I have a small backyard garden and there are so many interesting tomato varieties to explore... (trying tomatoes from the Dwarf Tomato Project this year)....See MoreIs there life after Black Krim?
Comments (18)I really loved the few Cuostralee that my plant produced. Extremely tasty. (i had reduced sun exposure where i was allowed to plant last year.) The other tomato that really blew me away last season was a bred variety by a local tomato company, Magalia Rosa - a small narrow cherry sized variety. http://baianicchia.blogspot.com/2007/02/new-in-2007-maglia-rosa_20.html The tomatoes were not large as stated on their page, rather they were mainly 1 inch to 2 inches long but narrow, and their light pink hue on the outside disguised the deep darker sweet insides. An awesome variety, my most anticipated variety this year. As the plant was prolific producing out of a 5 gallon container. This is a local heirloom/cross breed tomato operation in the SF Bay Area that I just really enjoy buying plants from....See MoreBlack Krim won't Pollinate
Comments (4)The "Krim" refers to Crimea, so this is a tomato that originated in Ukraine, formerly part of the USSR, across the Black Sea north of Turkey. Tropical compared with more northerly regions of the USSR, but not by most standards. When you say the blossoms are dying, I'm not sure what you mean. For instance, do you mean: 1. the flowers bloom, then the yellow petals fall? Some people worry about this, but it's normal for the petals to fall after the flower passes its prime. If the flower was successfully pollinated, a small tomato will appear after about a week. Here's a photo timetable: http://www.tomatosite.com/index.php?NT=Cultivation&RE=Truss_Timeline 2. the flower blooms, then the flower, its green sepals, and part of the stem all fall off together? This is called "blossom drop." It means that pollination failed, usually because of temperatures which make the pollen ineffective. It could be that the days are too hot (usually somewhere in the low-to-mid 90s), the nights are too hot (the low temperature 75 or higher), or that the nights are too cold (the low below 55). In this situation, you can try to hand-pollinate or shake the blossom during the part of the day when temperatures are more moderate. [As for the cherries fruiting successfully in the same conditions: well, cherries are tougher than other types of tomatoes, and they are often able to fruit in unusually high heat; I don't know if they react similarly to cold conditions. I don't know how Romas react to borderline heat and cold.] You can read more about blossom drop (including the use of hormone sprays) in this forum's FAQ, linked at the top of the forum's main page: Why are the blooms on my tomato plant dying and falling off? 3. Or is it that the flowers are withering before they bloom? I've seen this happen when the plant is stressed -- or simply not ready to support fruit yet. Does the BK seem at all stressed, compared to the other plants?...See MoreHaving so much fun giving away the extras!
Comments (13)Kuddos to you in your generosity, m'friend! Tell ya what bro, it doesn't stop there. For the past many moons, we've been taking some of the surplus of our harvest up to the retirement village where my stepsons grandma has been residing. Unfortunately we lost her right before this Christmas past. Recently, a couple of the staff have contacted me via e-mail, and phone, to let me know that some of the other residents have all ready been inquiring as to whethat or not we would still be comin around to visit, and I assured them that we would indeed be coming around with gifts aplenty this year, the same as before! It made my oldest boy well up (and his old man as well, truth be told!) We gardeners sometimes don't realize how much we have been blessed, do we?...See Morefireduck
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