[QUOTE=Worth1;215548]See guys see.
I have hollered 13-13-13 since I have been posting on tomato forums and now you can see the results.:)

Worth[/QUOTE]

That is what the LSU Ag center told me to use after they performed my soil test.

Carolyn, your greenhouse plants are seriously impressive! Glad you found Tomatoville and I'm really enjoying this thread. :yes:

Thank you for sharing your photos and also sharing info with the rest of us on how you take care of your tomato plants.

Thank You Suze.

I am having so much fun with my plants. I spent a few hours today pruning a few suckers and twining the vines up. The "Tommy Toes", some "Brandywines", and "Giant Tree" have reached their maximum trellis height. So sad. That means I have to cut their heads off.
Would love to see just how big they could grow if they had more head space= but even so= I have to remove the entire crop in 8 weeks so I can grow a Fall crop.

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The aroma of these plants are so addictive.

big fruits everywhere. and I think I misscalculated ripe dates= I am a week off.
I had a few hail damaged fruits and fried a few for lunch the other day and they had
a tinge of pink inside.

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one more pic====i could show pics all day. But in the end= they all look like tomato plants.

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Carolyn,
What varieties are in the 4 gallon pots? Great looking plants/fruit!

Big Beef, OP Big Beef, Brandywine, Giant Tree, Trip-L-Crop, Tommy Toe, Black Prince, Better Boy.
The last two pictures were Big Beef

Carolyn,
Thanks very much

dcarch supports clusters of large tomatoes with ties made
from plastic grocery bags cut into strips. He ties off to the
horizontal nylon strings in his trellis system, but you could
probably tie them off to a main stem by pinching the tip
on a side-shoot coming out from a leaf petiole, too, to make
a fork strong enough to support the plastic tie.

You can see pictures here:
[url]http://www.tomatoville.com/showthread.php?t=5788&highlight=plastic[/url]

(Nice plants. It would be unfortunate to let of any of those
tomatoes go to waste for lack of an easy way to support
a truss.)

that was interesting dice. Thank you.

My puter has been in the shop for a week but my camera has been by my side.

Sadly= this will be the heaviest tomato this season. Only 3 1/2 pounds. :(
Brandywine= grown in 4 gal pot with a sub soil below.
The fruit grew around the stem and it was hard to detach it. I cracked the fruit open
trying to get it off the stem.

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Only 3 1/2 pounds. :?:
Yeah, disappointing, I know.

I'm not sure I understood, but are the plants growing just in the 4 gal containers, or are they open at the end? Because the plants seem ridiculously big and producing for just 4 gal.

I myself am growing on balcony this year, 2 plants in 10 gal pots (with only 4h of sun however) and I'd like to have a reference, a sort of goal of what I should get if I do everything right. :wait:

Those are amazing plants and fruits! What do you do for pest and disease control?

[QUOTE=zipcode;217299]Only 3 1/2 pounds. :?:
Yeah, disappointing, I know...[/QUOTE]

:))

Amazing work, and many thanks for sharing your techniques/recipes for fertilizing!

Regards,
D

So far this year I have not used pest control on the plants==none= zippo. But I have spotted a few hornworms today so I guess it's time to break out the artillery. Liquid Seven dust.
I have good luck with pest NOT showing up early because I spray the growing area heavily before I plant. It keeps the bugs at bay for a long while.

Yes the plants are only growing in a 4 gallon pot. Yes the pots still have their bottoms but some roots find their way out the drain holes. Even when I do not loosen the soil below the pots, the roots still find their way out. My plants have always grown this big in 4 and 5 gallon pots but the plants are also pruned from 1 to 4 vines per plant. The plants with 4 vines are shorter. Plants with 1 vine are taller. Except those Tommy Toe plants. They have about 6 vines on each plant but are the tallest in the greenhouse right now which are about 9 feet tall .

If you cannot get fertilizer like i mix it= you can use Miracle Grow Bloom Booster. For large plants like these= I would use 2 tbs per week. And I cheat by just dumping a table spoon in the pot and watering right away about a gallon.



Thanks Dogs and Duh