Author Topic: Tomato Progress report (Read 14178 times)

tonybloke · « **on:** May 30, 2008, 12:09:06 »

Gardeners delight![attachment=1]
fruit forming[attachment=2]
cuttings ready for outside[attachment=3]
'Marmande' in fruit[attachment=4]
All in my unheated greenhouse at the lottie ;D ;D

betula · « **Reply #1 on:** May 30, 2008, 12:14:07 »

All looking good Tony,so satisfying :)

calendula · « **Reply #2 on:** May 30, 2008, 14:38:31 »

blimey :o

mine are more knee high to a grasshopper - grasshopper being the operative word in size ;D

posie · « **Reply #3 on:** May 30, 2008, 16:14:43 »

Good grief! Are you giving them steroids or something?! Mine aren't even half that size! Well done though ;D

lorna · « **Reply #4 on:** May 30, 2008, 22:40:18 »

I must stop looking at threads referring to tomato plants, I am getting really depressed ;D My few Gardeners Delight and Marmande seem to have been at a standstill for ages!!

tim · « **Reply #5 on:** May 31, 2008, 17:44:35 »

You've got a sideshoot on that Marmande, Tony?

When did you sow?

tonybloke · « **Reply #6 on:** May 31, 2008, 20:19:40 »

March 1st,heated propagator,watered with seaweed solution. pricked out on 7th march!! pottted on again april 9th. (I keep a plant diary). Rgds Tony.
note: 1st 3 inside door treated with trichoderma as an experiment, seems impressive so far!

cjb02 · « **Reply #7 on:** May 31, 2008, 21:39:01 »

Those are excellent looking tomatoes.

Where do you get the fungus treatment from? I would be very interested in using some of that.

tonybloke · « **Reply #8 on:** May 31, 2008, 22:06:34 »

managed to get a kinder egg thing full from a commercial tomato grower on a college trip! ;D

cjb02 · « **Reply #9 on:** June 01, 2008, 18:52:14 »

that's very lucky. i was having a look on the web at how much to buy this stuff and Wow it is not cheap.

Company in America. don't know if they ship to the UK

http://jrjohnson.com/product.php?productid=16550

and a shop on Ebay,

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/TRICHODERMA-ROOT-STIMULANT-HYDROPONICS-PEST-CONTROL_W0QQitemZ230145238346QQihZ013QQcategoryZ519QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1638Q2em118Q2el1247

not cheap at 10 grams for a tenner plus postage

It does look good stuff though, from your results.

tim · « **Reply #10 on:** June 01, 2008, 20:01:39 »

Glad you're doing a control, Tony.

tonybloke · « **Reply #11 on:** June 01, 2008, 20:19:24 »

it's the only way to tell if your experiment works! and then repeat it next year........

Gazfoz · « **Reply #12 on:** June 01, 2008, 21:25:37 »

What, with different plants and weather conditions and compost and timing?
Don't think so!

tonybloke · « **Reply #13 on:** June 02, 2008, 12:20:32 »

how do you think new varieties, foods, methods, etc are developed, then??

Gazfoz · « **Reply #14 on:** June 02, 2008, 17:22:07 »

Under laboratory conditions Tony where else?
Where everything can be monitored, verified and repeated.

tonybloke · « **Reply #15 on:** June 14, 2008, 11:25:35 »

this mornings update[attachment=1][attachment=2][attachment=3]all gardeners delight,[attachment=4]and some marmande

STEVEB · « **Reply #16 on:** June 14, 2008, 22:04:35 »

careful the ds dont raid you !!!

tonybloke · « **Reply #17 on:** June 15, 2008, 17:39:46 »

who are the ds? are they some sort of tomato experts?

tim · « **Reply #18 on:** June 16, 2008, 17:58:40 »

I'll be lucky if I get any, given my earlier post.

shirley B · « **Reply #19 on:** June 16, 2008, 19:25:26 »

I don't BELIEVE IT a couple of weeks ago i accidently cut the stalk of one of my tomato's, just left it and continued watering, it went on growing and has started flowering, will put on photo's of cut and top of plant. Shirley B[attachment=1][attachment=2]

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Author Topic: Tomato Progress report (Read 14178 times)