Grow 8-10 times more tomatoes - Maslov's method

[Andrey_BY]

Recently I was told about this man and his unique method of tomato growing which enable him to bear 35-55 kg of fresh tomatoes from one plant.

Unfortunately it is rather expensive to buy his know-how here, but probably some of you will be interested. But I've noticed that the local price for Russia and CIS is much lower than for foreign customers (227USD vs. 740USD)! :wink:

This man was very famous in USSR and now is living in Kyrgyzstan.

http://metod.host.net.kg/eng.html

[michael johnson]

As I have said before , you can do absolutly anything you like with a tomato plant, and with the right method you can train it and mold it to your own specifications-to perform exactly as you want it to do-and not what the plant wants to do in normal nature, tomato plants are so versatile.

The only problem appears to be the Cost of learning about the method, its a bit steep to say the least, I only wish I had the cash to spare-Iwould buy it tommorow, but unfortunatly I cant afford that kind of cash just for the info, if it was for a complete book on the method with three or four hundred pages in a bound copy, then it would probably be worth it.

Its a pity we cant form some kind of co-oprative @ $5.00 a throw to club together for one of us to buy it, then share the info amongst all members of the co-operative. who paid $5.00 apiece for the privilage, still adopting the required confidentiality asked for within the co-oprative membership.


Another slight problem has occured to me- it seems as though the method mentioned involves layering of the stem to grow more roots- which is fairly common knowledge anyway, lots of people know how to do it already, and large commercial houses use it all the time and often have up to 25 trusses of tomatoes on their plants, they bring the plant up and over the roof and down the other side, layering the stem when it gets to the other side, or they have them on wires and pully system so that they can just keep lowering them to the ground and layering the stem as they go.

But the method described appears to be outside in the fields.

So the mystery remains until someone is brave enough to fork out all that dosh.

[Althea]

Michael, I like the idea of a co-operative. Is there anything else that 'Villians could do co-operatively?

[SelfSufficient1]

That's ok I will just take my tomatoes that produce less and be happy. I think the price is ridiculous.

[Goddessemer6]

Uhh, I think even a commercial grower, who could use the knowledge, would even balk at the sight of that price!!!

[moulman]

You too can make millions in Real Estate!
Using my method guarantees results!


I knew a guy once who responded to one of those "get rich adds" - For $39.99 they promised to give him all the details of a "can't miss" system.
He sent the money, and a few weeks later he got a letter. Inside was a single piece of paper that said "Get a bunch of idiots to send you $39.99 ea!

ROTFL ! !

[SelfSufficient1]

Now THAT sounds like an easy way to make money, lol.

[Goddessemer6]

Yes it is a very easy way to get money, they even have a name for it...Pyramid Scheme...and it's illegal...hope your friend got his money back...though probably not...

[travis]

Here's my impression of the Maslov Method:

Plant your tomato vines spaced say 12 feet apart in every direction. That'll give each plant a circle with a 6-foot radius to spread out like an octopus in all directions.

Let the vine sprawl and train each leader to travel in a pattern radiating out from the central growing stem. Try to get four to six healthy leaders growing out along the ground from the original central stem.

When a side leader gets out from the central stem about four feet, plop a shovelful of dirt atop the point on the leader say a foot back from the growing tip or 3 or so feet out from the central stem. Place a brick atop the dirt to keep it and the buried place on the leader covered. Now the buried places on the side leaders will develop roots and become individual plants.

Each time you do this, let one sucker from the growing tip just past the brick continue growing out along the ground away from the central stem and train another sucker to grow upward as an individual plant trained on a 6-foot stake.

Now you have a central tomato plant, four to six new plants 3 feet out from the center, and four to six growing tips continuing out along the ground away from the newly staked plants, right?

When those growing tips reach the edge of the 12-foot diameter circle assigned to the original plant (which is gonna be about 3 feet out from the newly staked clone plants), do the same thing ... cover a place on the vine with dirt and bricks and train just the growing tips up another set of stakes as individual terminus plants.

Now you should have a central mother plant with 8 to 12 clones staked in two concentric rings around the central plant ... thereby potentially producing "10 times" the poundage that you would otherwise get from the original plant.

Actually, many of us have seen this type of thing happen spontaineously when you let a cherry tomato or a yellow pear tomato volunteer out of a compost bin. They grow up and over the edge of the wire containment, down the outside to the ground, root each leader, and grow clone plants. Big deal.

Somebody owes me 740 bucks.

Naw ... send it to the Kazakhistan Central Politbureau ... they need the money.

PV

[Gimme3]

Heh heh...Papa Vic...tell em like it IS...)))

i got a good way to smash bugs, too...send me 5 dollars an ill tell the Grand secret...)))

[Mantis]

Each plant has a 6 foot radius to spread HMM. Thats nearly 120 square feet or a 6 foot by 20 foot bed. Enough room for maybe 12 plants. I would rather do it that way I think. More varieties

[michael johnson]

Althea- " yes"- they could try not to be so sarcastic, with a more friendly attitude, hope this answers your question.

Papa Vic- seems to have gotten the right idea, with his detailed post on the subject, and very interesting details etc,- I might try this method on a couple of plants and see how they fare.

There is one thing that very obvious- you never stop learning different things and increased knowledge on tomatoes on TV.

[michael johnson]

Andrey- exactly what does it mean where it says tomato type,
Liana-type, bush etc. as I am not sure what Liana-type is and never heard the word before, can you explain please.

[travis]

Originally Posted by Mantis

Each plant has a 6 foot radius to spread HMM. Thats nearly 120 square feet or a 6 foot by 20 foot bed. Enough room for maybe 12 plants. I would rather do it that way I think. More varieties

Me too, Mantis. We're mostly growing from seed. How much money would we be saving cloning a single plant? And saving money isn't really the point of a hobby anyway, is it? So, if I had a choice of 12 clones or a garden of 12 different varieties, I would chose the 12 different varieties myself ... unless it was a special project.

I was just tryin' to point out that I think the whole "Maslov Method" reminds me of the old scam I used to see years ago in an occasional "personal" newspaper ad: "Make a Million Dollars ... Guaranteed Method ... send $2.00 for details."

If you mailed in your $2.00, you soon received a reply: "Take out an ad in the personal section of the 100 daily newspapers with the greatest circulation. The ad should state: 'Make a Million Dollars ... Guaranteed Method ... send $2.00 for details.' Provide a PO Box number. Continue to run the ads until you receive a million dollars."

PV

[travis]

Just a curiosity ...

At the bottom of the "Maslov Method" Web page linked in the original post of this thread, we find an endorsement by "R.F. Anoshenko" purportedly an esteemed member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Mr. Anoshenko also is listed as a "science specialist" in the contact info at the bottom of the Web page.

By way of information, the Academy was founded in St. Petersburg by Peter the Great, and implemented in the Senate decree of January 22, 1724. It was called St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences between 1724 and 1917.

In 1925 the Soviet government recognized the Russian Academy of Sciences as the "highest all-Union scientific institution" and renamed it the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, by decree of the President of the Russian Federation of December 2, 1991, Russian Academy of Sciences was restored, inheriting all facilities of the USSR Academy of Sciences in the territory of Russia.

Now that's a long and distinguished history, right? So Mr. Fedor Aneshenko apparently has some credentials, right? I mean if he is indeed a member in good standing ...

Here's a link to the Academy's Web site: http://www.ras.ru/index.aspx?_Language=en

Punch "R.F. Aneshenko" into their search engine ...

Punch "Fedor Aneshenko" into their search engine ...

Heck, punch just about anything related to the Maslov Method into the search engine ... any search engine ... and you only get "nothing found" or a link to the sole same Web page purporting to give you the secret for 740 bucks.

PV