What variety of tomato is this?
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Comments (1)My favourite are Bonnie Best. Heritage and 55 days Not too large and taste great. Also not too many seeds....See MoreWhat varieties of tomato plants would be easiest to sell?
Comments (18)I just planted another 45 seeds today, 15 each of the varieties I mentioned in my previous post. I also planted another 30 old seeds, but I don't have much hope for them as only a few sprouted so far. I am just about maxed out on area under my lights and heat mat and oven, so I think maybe around 150 seedlings will be it until it gets warm enough to leave all of them outside all day and night. Whether I start a second batch of 150 seedlings will depend on whether I can sell most of what I started already. I am hoping that my seedlings get big enough to sell before the Fullerton Arboretum has its monster tomato and pepper sale. Looking on Craigslist I only see one seller so far selling tomato plants, but the number will most likely increase in March. My tallest seedlings are now about three inches tall, and it has been about four weeks since I planted the first ones. I have been giving them some potassium nitrate dissolved in rainwater, as it says on the Pro-Mix bag to start supplemental feeding as soon as the seedlings get their first set of true leaves as Pro-mix doesn't have any fertilizer in it. I believe someone posted Cal-nitro was a good fertilizer to use, maybe I'll go buy some....See MoreBest tomato varieties for containers?
Comments (6)Any variety can be grown in containers to varying degrees of success. I find that Paste tomatoes are difficult due to ber as are any elongated or oxheart varieties. It really depends on the quality of your setup. Dont expect to plant a sudduth into a 5 gallon bucket with soil and expect to get any tomatoes. OTOH, a whiskey barrel with good potting mix, mulched, with a drip or earthbox system would work nicely. cherries will generally work in almost any pot....See MoreWhat variety of tomatoes are these?
Comments (7)There are many ways that folks save seed, most I know prefer to do fermentations, others use oxiclean or similar and no two folks do it the same way, regardless of which method they use. As I recall Trudi switched to the oxidative method a few years ago. There are good articles about seed saving at Tania's website as well as Victory Seed and many other sites. I'm watching my favorite TV tennis right now or I'd go fetch them, but anyone can just by Googling what I mentioned. It is known which pathogens are partially removed by fermentation from the seed coat but there's no data at present that says what's removed by non-fermentation techniques and there's a thread here where that was discussed at length. Maybe do a search here first with a thread title of Seed Saving and the one I'm thinking of plus many more will pop up. Carolyn Carolyn...See MoreHome&Garden Handy
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