Where are your toms now?

[tim]

Interesting point here - I have always understood that it was better for the plant to have filled its 3" pot before going to its final position?

And, elsewhere, something I have never achieved, it should have a flower truss on it before potting up.

Comments??

= Tim

[tim]

[shirlton]

Hi Tim thats how ours were. This year they got trusses much earlier for us.Other years trusses or not they get potted up when they have filled their pots. Have been put in their final pots for 4 weeks now but only in the GH. We dont grow any outside now cos of blight even on Shirley which is supposed to have some resistance

[Morris]

I used to leave ours for the first flower truss to form before putting into the final big pots - the theory as I understood it being that you get earlier fruit. I think maybe some root restriction is supposed to make it form fruit sooner instead of keeping on growing for the sky??

I decided in the end it was better to pot on at the right time for the roots. Maybe fruiting is a bit later that way but I think for the long-term health and vigour of the plants consistently potting on as soon as the roots fill the pot is a better method, for me, anyway.

I do pot on gradually in stages and make sure the last 3" pot is filled with good strong roots before they go into the big pots.

I have green fruits on my cherries now - but I think that is the weather.

[Kleftiwallah]

Waiting to 'go in',  from left to right.   Big Boy = 1,  Tiny Toms = 5,  Beef master = 6, Golden sunrise = 6,  Semilas Iberic = 1, Roma = 5, Brandywine * = 5,  Co Du Boeuf = 4, Gardener's delight = 4, Red cherry = 5, Rio Grande = 9, Golden sunrise = 3, Garden pearl = 9, Co Du Boeuf = 1, Big Boy = 1, Brandywine = 1.

Any volunteers ? ? ?    Cheers,   Tony.

[cornykev]

Mine went out under the summerhouse roof yesterday, tell a lie I left them out in the open because I knew it was going to rain but they'll be tucked under there tonight.   ;D

[Deb P]

Mine are now in their final positions in the greenhouse at last, all about a foot high, most with a first truss of flowers. Job done! ;D

[tim]

What precision, Wiltshire Wallah - & I love the designer colour!!
But, as with me - & others -  10-12" & no flowers yet. I know it doesn't matter in the long run, but I do like to get to the bottom of things.

I note with shame that one of my bags is out of line!!

[Bruce]

I note with shame that one of my bags is out of line!!

nice greenhouse!

[tim]

There's always an upside?  Struggling to keep it operating after 36 years of no TLC & being distorted by a foot in the 1987 Fish disaster.  Never been quite the same since!!

[green lily]

Noticed first green tomato on Delicious in poly. ;D[sorry no pic- must work on the technology or find a grandchild] Wrapped the outdoor ones in fleece tonight cos its pretty nippy after the rain. NW wind and we're exposed. 5 more plants[lidls mixed cherries] are snugged back indoors and still waiting their slot in the garden. Regards from North Lincs

[Morris]

Your greenhouse makes me sooo jealous Tim!!!  ;)

PS However, to cheer myself up, though my greenhouse is a fraction of the size of yours (12' x 4') I have tomatoes 2-3' high, several with green fruit (Apero, Stupice, can't remember the other without going to check).  ;D

[tonybloke]

4  ft high,   3 trusses of flowers, (2 trusses set), waiting for them to redden ( gardeners delight )

[tim]

Much the same, Tony - for the earlier ones.

4' plant size, of course.

[1066]

I have to ask you Tim, what is the monster growing in the foreground of the 2nd picture?

In the Ghouse - about 2 1/2 foot tall some with flowers and some fruit appearing. In buckets at home distinctly smaller, far leaner, and no sign of flowers

[tim]

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[Duke Ellington]

Yes Klefti where did you get all those pink pots from ;D I do like them.

Tim did you *do away* with those air pots, I seem to remember you using them one year.

Duke

[tim]

Tried them last year & they were very helpful for drainage. But I've aged a lot since then & find them labour intensive in that they have to be emptied & refilled - & they take up room, even when 'unrolled'.

They're available buy one get one free!!

[1066]

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aaahhhhhh

[tim]

Pictures speak louder than words?

[Stevens706]

Tim I was thinking about getting Air Pots to try, I take it that you weren't that impressed with them?
Glad I didn't buy them after all