Please define "Determinate" and "Indeterminate"
Suzi AKA DesertDance So CA Zone 9b
7 years ago
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indeterminate tomatoes in containers and soil mix
Comments (59)Hi Let me say a couple things here please: I grow tomatoes in containers outside every year and each one produces way more fruit than my neighbors outdoor in ground tomatoes do. Here are dome tips: 1. must get min of 6 hrs full sun 2. You need to start with a premium peat based soil mix and add some extra perlite. Look on line for making soil mix for growing weed (MJ) indoors. If u don't care about organic growing, use miracle grow potting soil with already added fert...not garden soil, not top soil, not dirt from ur yard and no cheap potting mixes. /Soils with already added fert work great for tomatoes but apparently not for weed so u will notice those sites don't recommend it. For tomatoes it will work outstandingly 3. I use 7 gallon plastic trash cans. 1 plant per can. I have used 5 gallon buckets but they are NOT big enough. This probably relates to number 4... 4. I never grow determinate tomatoes or tiny grape sized tomatoes or bush tomatoes or tomatoes bred for container growing. - WHY? - because I want the biggest and most tomatoes. I grow large 1 lb and up varieties of indeterminate tomatoes. I get tons of large fruit. Any plant will produce slightly smaller fruit in containers so start out with BIG varieties! 5. ALSO - I don't get why people recommend determinate tomatoes for containers - they only produce for one shot and then they are done. 6. Obviously you need to pay attention to proper watering, feeding etc. If you use grow soils with fert already in you will not need to fert for the first 5-6 weeks. Then only if needed and only in 1/4 to 1/2 strength. 7. If you go organic, and know how to make a good mix, you will not need to fert at all. Again, If u don't know how to make an indoor soil mix look at a weed (MJ) growing site. DONT FORGET - weed growers are the top professionals at growing indoors. Don't be afraid to look at these sites for expert information on indoor growing....See MoreIs there such a thing as indeterminate and determinate potato var
Comments (16)This is an old thread, but I found it in a search, so I expect other people will as well. Counter to what an earlier poster insisted, potatoes ARE either determinate or indeterminate. Web sites like the Colorado State agriculture department use the term, and it is used exactly in the sense the original poster described. It is also very important for anyone growing potatoes in a barrel or box. You plant the seed potatoes in the bottom of the container, and then gradually add soil as the vine grows. This only makes sense if you're using an indeterminate variety, which will keep on sending out shoots off the vine to produce new potatoes. Determinate types only send out shoots that produce tubers off the original vine, just above the roots. So if you fill up a barrel with soil, and you used a determinate type, you'll only get potatoes in the bottom of the container, and all your effort was for no extra production. If you don't actually know, please don't be a know-it-all and pretend that you do. Web pages are forever, and you're passing off incorrect information to those who don't know better....See Morewhich tomato - indeterminate, early, loads of fruits
Comments (16)You can grow indeterminates in a container - just make it a big container and be prepared for a LOT of staking. Truth to tell, determinates in containers need a lot of staking too. Last year, I grew 'Sub-Arctic Plenty' - a determinate, 55-65 DTM; advertised as "great for kids", it's a heavy cropper and the taste is just OK. I did get them out late (mid-June), but they grew well and fast and I picked my first one by late July. The plant was still producing fruit when I ripped them out in early November. It sure acted more like an indeterminate. For sheer delicious-ness, the yellow grape tomato 'Ildi' can't be beat. Indeterminate, 53 DTM; sets tons of fruit in clusters. But this is a BIG plant; for me, in a 5-gallon bucket, the plant got to be almost 8' tall. Had it staked every which way but Sunday. Sure tasted good, though. My main tomato crop is grown in an EarthBox, so fertilizing and watering is not an issue. But those in single containers (5-gallon size) do need more attention paid to fertlizing and especially watering. PV...See Moreplease help determine the type of juniper
Comments (16)Looking to other photos via Google, the one's at your photos look like Juniperus excelsa indeed. The one's planten are sheared at the nursery before they got planted there. All are nice one single leader specimens. You write that you're living in Krasnodar, zone 6. Is this zone 6 because you're close to the Black Sea? It seems that Abies nordmanniana and Picea orientalis are growing in higher elevations forest in your area. Did you ever checked this area for special trees and witches brooms, just like Jari from Finland is doing?...See Morenanelle_gw (usda 9/Sunset 14)
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7 years agoSuzi AKA DesertDance So CA Zone 9b
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7 years agoSuzi AKA DesertDance So CA Zone 9b
7 years agoMark Scarlato
7 years agoSuzi AKA DesertDance So CA Zone 9b
7 years agoSuzi AKA DesertDance So CA Zone 9b
7 years agolast modified: 7 years agolgteacher
7 years agoSuzi AKA DesertDance So CA Zone 9b
7 years agoMark Scarlato
7 years agoMark Scarlato
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