Log for Grow-Out: Page 3 (2016)
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Comments (83)Hi, Nan! I keep thinking, "It's too hot, time for me to go into summer dormancy; *no more plants*! but they keep following me home... & every year I say, "I'm not going to water these pots of plants through the summer. Anybody left in a flowerpot after May 30 gets composted." Pots of plants have homesteaded 3 plastic wading pools here....See MoreTomatoes 2016 – What are you growing this year?
Comments (19)First off let me say that i am not a tomato person. Not because i don't like tomatoes (although i dont like bland store tomatoes anymore). But because i've had terrible luck growing tomatoes in the past. Just haven't found any good ones for my climate and soil. Although in fairness i haven't given it a lot of tries. This year i plan to change that. I have several varieties i'd like to try and i will save the best for including in my own breeding project. I will be following Joseph Lofthouse's tomato breeding progress with his adapted to Utah. I may even use his varieties in the future and probably swap any good genetics i find back with him. Breeding a tomato variety that is highly attractive to pollinators and open to natural cross pollinating would be fantastic. I am also focusing on flavor. That Burrell's Special sounds interesting. I'm always on the hunt for locally adapted varieties. Often it makes the breeding and selection much easier. These are the tomatoes i'd like to plant this year, but i don't know if i have room for all of them. It depend on how much room i save for other projects like the watermelon. Solanum Cheesmaniae Solanum Galapagense Magnus - 1900's variety Ponderosa - 1890 tomato Marhio Hillbilly vintage wine turkish striped monastary pink accordion pink berkley tie die german bicolor copia amana orange orange peach Fantome du Laos...See MoreEarly to Start Tomato Seeds (3/3/2016 for Zone 6)?
Comments (5)Agree with Peter. Window light isn't an effective light source for seedlings. Even a full blown greenhouse uses supplemental lighting for seedlings. Sunlight this time of year lacks the needed spectrum and degree of intensity needed and the windows reduce it even more. Plus there aren't enough hours of sunlight. So your plants start out with 1 strike against them. A simple fluorescent shop light 1.5-2" above the plants for 16 hours a day solves that problem. Check out the FAQs about lightening on the Growing from Seed forum here. Second, homemade seed starting mixes seldom work well. Not because of the lack of nutrients - young seedlings have all they need until after they develop a couple sets of true leaves - but because the drain poorly and the young roots rot. Buy a bag of commercial seed starting mix that are already pH balanced and made to drain well. Eliminate those two problems and your odds of success will improve greatly. Dave...See MoreCommunity Grow Out August 2016
Comments (236)Happy Friday everyone. I know some are just getting started. What are your thoughts on starting a new thread where everyone posts photographs of their seeds/seedlings no matter what their status along with their sowed date, age, and remind us all of your location and current weather conditions. This will replace the recording stats in the spreadsheet (from last year's grow out) and I think will be a nice way of documenting our progress periodically. Tracy...See MoreUser
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