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Produce => Under Glass => Topic started by: tim on June 03, 2009, 09:54:01
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Despite identical treatment - grow bags - indoors - 2 varieties, both small plums - wilting tops. Sickly looking.
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Tim a lot of people are complaining of sick toms this year i presume you have the greenhouse ventilated adequately we have had a warm snap from being cool all i can say is sorry and hope they recover for you as you had problems with blight last year as well
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Tim, If you don't then ::) Are they on the same side of the GH. Ours differ from one side to the other but must admit they don't look that bad, maybe it's the heat
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1. Certainly they first drooped in the heat - my fault - forgot to prepare. But 13 other varieties are fine??
2. Vents? 24 in 30'. Plus door. I'm a venty person. Plus shading - a bit late!
3. Position? Some on sunny side, others in middle.
Never ever had this before.
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I have three types of plant, long keeper, bulgarian purple and beef steak, that look similar to the one on the right, as if they had been sprayed with weed killer.
I put it down to greenhouse being very hot when they were babies, but just guessing, , potted up the Bulgarian purple and put it outside to see what happens, flowers look ok but plant looks very ill and weedy.
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I notice that I have one Costoluto that's gone that way.
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Could your grow bags be contaminated?
This is a bit like what ours looked like last year in soil with aminopyralid contaminated manure
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Certainly they first drooped in the heat - my fault - forgot to prepare.
Don't worry Tim we all get those moments.................correction I get these moments ;D
Thought for today!
Having grown Tomatoes for more years than I can remember I am wondering if the 'body' has been bred out of some of the varieties?
I am a bit of a traditionalist and mainly grow the tried and tested varieties that have been around the UK for years, and never had problems like those that are about today.
I have one new variety this year and one of my plants has succumbed in a similar manner!
It is a new variety (can't recall the name) that was on display at Tatton park show last and I tasted it and liked it, so much so I wrapped the seeds up in a paper tissue and saved them.
I germinated them this spring and they performed like the rest of the varieties I have grown.
It is an interesting variety in so far as it looks quite different from the others in the greenhouse. It has a very bushy growing tip, the leaves form about 2" apart.
Personally I think it is a bush variety although I am growing it as a cordon.
Waiting now to taste the fruits of my labour.
By the way I have named it; Tatton original isn't it? ::) it will go well with the other varieties I have named.
Namely;
Feurta...............from a tomato I brought back from Feurtaventura in the Canaries
Calahonda ..........ditto a village of Calahonda in southern Spain
Eddies...................ditto I got from my mate Eddy
Josie..............ditto grown by a lady on our allotments.
I save the seed each year from a tomato taken from each variety to prolong the strain.
Before anyone tells me that they won't come true to variety let me tell you
'I dont care' ;) ;D
I like them, my family likes them and people I have given 'tasters' to like them.
Even my grandson who up to a couple of years ago wouldn't eat a tomato .........he likes them!
And to me thats what growing for yourself is all about!
Sorry Tim....I'm having another one of those moments and rambling again! ;)
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hahahaha! You tell 'em TeeGee! And I like the way you name your tomatoes.
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Keep going, TG - I read every dot & carry you write!
In passing - forgot to say that in one bag, one of the 3 plants is perfect.
Curiouser & curiouser??
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How odd...that would certainly suggest it was the plants at fault rather than any external factors. Are they showing any signs of recovery/worsening yet Tim?
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Funny coincidence Tee Gee, I call one of mine Secretts as I bought some toms from their garden centre in Guildford and liked them, saved some seed and when growing they have close trusses about 6-8 inches apart and a nice strong plant.