Member discussion regarding the methods, varieties and merits of growing tomatoes.
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February 24, 2011 | #16 |
Tomatovillian™
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Thank you all for the help...
CREISTER...Yes I have an old Springfield 1903 rebored for 333OKH...She is old, and ungly, but shoots like no tomorrow. She is only used with open sights on bear and feral pig these days. It only is allowed to shoot 300 grain Woodleigh. |
February 24, 2011 | #17 |
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Carolyn,
Sorry on the spelling. 333, That is really cool. I shoot a 35 Whelen, still playing with the loads. I found some 280 grain hard cast that I want to use on feral hogs, but that is in the future. |
February 24, 2011 | #18 | |
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February 24, 2011 | #19 |
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Anyone have good or bad news for me on all of the potato leaf varieties I am trying?
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March 10, 2011 | #20 |
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What about Kosovo?
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March 12, 2011 | #21 |
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March 17, 2011 | #22 |
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With the grow setup above, I got all five tomato varieties to sprout in less than five days time from planting.
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March 17, 2011 | #23 |
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Are those CF / Compact Flourescent bulbs proper spectrum growlight bulbs?
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March 17, 2011 | #24 |
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Kim the spectrum are the Kelvins right? That is why I have three different ratings. I do not use mine to grow out just start.
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March 19, 2011 | #25 |
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JBT is great in the cold....more productive than anything I've seen before, including sungold, through our very mild winter. Even in the cold it manages to color-up nicely. It's one of my favorites for this reason among others.
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March 22, 2011 | #26 |
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My Soldacki and Lithuanian tomatoes are only 60% on germination. The rest are 100%. Lets not talk about the one Nicholaena Pink that died at my finger tips....Oooops!
Peppers are 100% for Healthy, and 60% for Chervena Chushka, 00% for Aconcagua. |
June 20, 2011 | #27 |
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So far Nicholaena Pink has out grown all other tomatoes and it is still wet here....Drizzly rain last nite and only 61 degrees today.
Anyone have a good seed source of this tomato??? |
June 20, 2011 | #28 |
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sorry 333, dont know that one.
Nyagous is a tomato which for me performs better in cool summers than hot ones, but it always produces anyway. Last year I trialed a ton of Siberian tomatoes, only to have one of the warmest summers in decades here combined with tons of rain. Nearly every one of them failed completely. Even here in zone 4 it is good to have tomatoes that can take some serious heat. Tom |
June 20, 2011 | #29 |
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The most vigorous growing ones in our cool spring this year of those
that I have planted have been Cosmonaut Volkov, Koroleva, Robson Angolan, Victoria, and Lithuanian (and some hybrid plants at various stages of F-2,3,4 development). I expect Victoria to be the earliest of those, based on other people's reports. The Cosmonaut Volkov seeds were from trades, but it is widely available. Koroleva and Lithuanian were from Tania. Robson Angolan was from Sandhill Preservation. Victoria was from a trade but Sandhill lists it in their catalog. edit: Siberian and Spiridinovskie seem to be doing well, too, but those are smaller plants by nature, in containers right next to a low concrete wall that retains heat and radiates it back at night, so I cannot fairly compare their rate of development with indeterminates that have been growing in the open ground.
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June 20, 2011 | #30 |
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