General discussion regarding the techniques and methods used to successfully grow tomato plants in containers.
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September 20, 2015 | #1 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Jupiter, FL (10b)
Posts: 97
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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:
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... |
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