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Old September 9, 2015   #5
crmauch
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Originally Posted by gsnader View Post
These images are helpful. I'm a fellow gardener from Lancaster county and am just starting into the world of tomato crosses. At what point in the summer do you stop making crosses? I'm assuming there is point at which it's not worth it to make a cross because the tomato won't set fruit in time, am I right in that assumption?
There is a point at which you may successfully polinate, but the fruit won't ripen. I think the year before I pollinated to the end of June, but then lost tomatoes due to late blight. Generally this year I stopped mid/late June.

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