Micro tomatoes - eventually food
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@sleevendog (5a NY 6aNYC NL CA)
A tomato progress report...
These guys are slow and didn’t love my cool house. Or the fact that I first (idiotically) transplanted them into microgreen soil. But they are coming along. And I have my first flower buds!!!
The Little Kitty plants are all the same leaf form with some variation in size. The Carrot Leaf is much more irregular in form and size. I am planning to grow out some of variation. And gifting several to a gardening friend to do the same.
Thank you again for the seed! This has been a fun project!
These are all Carrot Leaf.
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4 years agoSweet! They are fun to grow.
Picolo Gato, aka 'little kitty', is pretty stable at this point. This was probably F-8 in 2018. Always one in a 36 cell tray will leap ahead.
More than most tomato starts, they love being root bound to a point. So keep them in their 4inch pots longer than most.I'll start another 10/10 36 cell tray next week or before the new year. All 8 i'm growing with most of the tray carrot leaf. Carrot leaf is a new cross we are working on. I have 4 that are pretty stable.
I was starting trays for a few years ever 3 months but down to every 4 months.
This is rugosa leaf in various ages. LadyWillian and SirCharles. I seem to always have something in fruit.
I'm sure i've posted this before...but we are working on a micro that will produce larger fruit....
And a new one with a working name 'Shmoo', after the EvaZeisel salt/pepper shakers.
A bit of an unruly plant but i'll start a full tray in the early spring and cull for the smaller seedlings.
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@sleevendog (5a NY 6aNYC NL CA)
Sigh at the photo orientation. So far I have spun the photos twice, resaved and attempted to repost. No dice. However I just wanted to say that I have my first fruit starting. Thank you again! I am enjoying thus project immensely!
And a question... though a bit late. What size pots do you finish growing these in? I think I am going to stick with these 5” pots if possible (dislike transplanting a plant in flower) but wondered whether they should be in something larger.
- 4 years ago
- 4 years ago
My goal for the last 6-7 years is to have 3 each of four leaf types as winter grows. 😂😜
12 nice compact plants. Plans out the window as i grow 10 times that much and new crosses come in the mail to gow-out. 🙄
During these cov*d times it is a nice diversion project.
Why i use tall pots to save on space. Potting up too soon is not good on plants, especially tomatoes. Keeping them a bit pot bound---the roots absorb water more efficiently as this avoids 'wet feet'. The pots dry out quickly. Let them dry out, then bottom water root zone only. Never sitting in water. But you know that.
Like micro greens. Getting the seed-to-soil ratio gets a better grow-out. A slight mini sprinkle will rot. Too thckly planted will crowd and rot/mold, pushing seeds off the soil surface. Roots need soil contact.
I kicked red-pots, beer/beverage plastic pots, out the window years ago. GreenHouseMegaStore. Minor investment over the long haul. Much more organized.
3.5inch deep is an odd description. They are 8inch deep.
Three sizes suits my grow outs. 10-10 square for starting seed so i can spin them easily.
- 4 years ago
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