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kunosoura · September 20, 2015

I always enjoy looking at everyone else's tomato pics, so I figured I would share some of mine.

I'm somewhat space limited, so I figured that trying out some dwarfs in 5 gallon SWCs could be fun. Fortunately the space I have for them is screened-in, so hopefully that will eliminate at least some disease vectors. I bought seeds of the following varieties:

Iditarod Red
Wherokowhai
Dwarf Emerald Giant
Tasmanian Chocolate
Dwarf Kelly Green
Extreme Bush
Perth Pride
Rosella Purple

Anyway, here we have some seedlings emerging. They were sown July 23. In this photo they are in ProMix BX and have also been treated with a cocktail of beneficial (hopefully!) biologicals.

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Here is everybody potted up in the SWCs. Plants are 44 days old at this point. I reserved backups just in case!

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For growing media I used 2/3 Promix BX, 1/3 peat moss. Added 1.5 cups Tomato Tone, 3/4 cup lime to each bucket.

The Dwarf Kelly Greens were interesting - two of the seedlings looked a lot "dwarfier" than the other two. I ended up planting one of the larger seedlings while some coworkers took the others. I'll see if I can find out how the smaller ones are doing.

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More to come...

September 20, 2015	#1
kunosoura Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Jupiter, FL (10b) Posts: 97	Dwarf varieties in 5 gal SWCs, South Florida I always enjoy looking at everyone else's tomato pics, so I figured I would share some of mine. I'm somewhat space limited, so I figured that trying out some dwarfs in 5 gallon SWCs could be fun. Fortunately the space I have for them is screened-in, so hopefully that will eliminate at least some disease vectors. I bought seeds of the following varieties: Iditarod Red Wherokowhai Dwarf Emerald Giant Tasmanian Chocolate Dwarf Kelly Green Extreme Bush Perth Pride Rosella Purple Anyway, here we have some seedlings emerging. They were sown July 23. In this photo they are in ProMix BX and have also been treated with a cocktail of beneficial (hopefully!) biologicals. 1 IMG_1454.jpeg Here is everybody potted up in the SWCs. Plants are 44 days old at this point. I reserved backups just in case! 3 IMG_1605.jpeg For growing media I used 2/3 Promix BX, 1/3 peat moss. Added 1.5 cups Tomato Tone, 3/4 cup lime to each bucket. The Dwarf Kelly Greens were interesting - two of the seedlings looked a lot "dwarfier" than the other two. I ended up planting one of the larger seedlings while some coworkers took the others. I'll see if I can find out how the smaller ones are doing. 4 IMG_1602.jpeg 5 IMG_1601.jpeg More to come...