Member discussion regarding the methods, varieties and merits of growing tomatoes.
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October 14, 2015 | #1 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Posts: 2,593
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Can Earthtainers be brought inside for winter
I have two with peppers and eggplants. Can I just bring them in and keep eating?
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October 14, 2015 | #2 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: 6a - NE Tennessee
Posts: 4,538
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Logic should tell you that it can be done. What's missing if your plant/planter come indoors? Beyond your container and growing medium, your plants need sunlight or some artificial full-spectrum light source. I would personally add a fan to help with pollination. I grew both tomato and pepper plants inside a windowless back bedroom using 4 foot/2 bulb fixture flourescents. Now, I did have three of the two light fixtures standing on end beside the plants, and one fixture above. They were on for 16 hours per day.
Here's a pix. I had to shut off the overhead and two of the vertical lights to show the orientation of the light fixture to the plant. It was usually VERY bright in there. BTW, the reason I put the fixtures vertical was to give the leaves more light. Overhead-only left too many shadows. The outside plants get a lot of reflected light. Also, a good deep drip pan is useful.
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October 14, 2015 | #3 |
Tomatoville® Moderator
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: San Antonio, Texas
Posts: 4,386
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The problem is you will bring into your house any insects that are in the containers. I tried that once in the greenhouse, bringing into it outside tomato plants, and had the worst aphid infestation I ever had.
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October 14, 2015 | #4 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Apr 2015
Location: Illinois, zone 5a
Posts: 579
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I would expect fungus gnats, personally.
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