Fruitset!! - Page 2

creister · March 11, 2009

Locally, we are forcasted to not get out of the 30's until Saturday. Yesterday, I made some shelters out of crw cages. I laid them on their sides, surrounded with gallon jugs full of water, covered with rowcover and clear plastic, as rain is forecast.

Congrats on the fruitset Duane. Break O'Day is a tomato machine. I must have picked about 40 or so from it last year. An excellent main cropper.

duajones · March 11, 2009

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Originally Posted by creister

Congrats on the fruitset Duane. Break O'Day is a tomato machine. I must have picked about 40 or so from it last year. An excellent main cropper.

And thank you for the seeds Curt, I have two Break O'Day plants growing

newgardener_tx · March 11, 2009

Hornstrider, I like your pictures. You got a stubbon horse!
Only people in Texas has to cover their plants because we think spring in March is still not early enough! We need to move it to February.
I bought some 1/4"x10 PVC and 1"x10 (cut to 1 feet long each as the stand) tubes and 3 mm plastic and made two simple hoops to cover my open area plants. Is this enough? 37-39C for Friday and Saturday.
Cry me a river if this happens again

New gardener in TX

hornstrider · March 11, 2009

newgardener.....It's my neighbors horse, and you are correct he is a real coot....I made the mistake of feeding him veggie plant leaves, carrrots ect over the fence..and now he expects it.......in fact I planted extra carrots for him this year........but after fooling w/ me that cold windy weekend I am having second thoughts..you should not have to worry......there is no frost, or freeze in the forcast.....my maters made it through the last cold front (29 deg) in the tunnels w/ 1 gal. jugs of water next to the plants

duajones · March 24, 2009

Break O'Day is in a league of its own at this point as one of the plants has 13 fruit on it already.

creister · March 24, 2009

Two years ago, BOD went toe to toe with a Better Boy for production. It tastes better also.

FlipTX · March 24, 2009

I have seven or eight little tomatoes on my volunteer, ranging from pea to golf ball size. It also has some of the darkest green leaves I've ever seen on a tomato plant.

duajones · March 24, 2009

I am hoping for similar results Curt. May end up being a mainstay in my garden. And good luck with your volunteer Flip, hope they taste good as well.

captnkirk · March 24, 2009

Solarfire and Goosecreek are 1st to set for me,both are 1st timers for me.Now if the rest will get to it.I know stupice will be fine it always sets well here.FloridaPink Brandywine OTV and Brandyboy are the 3 larger varieties i have growing also 1st timers that i hope will do well here in florida.A few others im still waiting for to set are Druzba,Eva purple ball,carmello,Rowdyred,BigBeef OP from tomato fest,and Burbank.

kirk

creister · March 25, 2009

Kirk,

SolarFire will make you alot of tomatoes. I grew it one year in a 5 gallon bucket. Did very well in our heat. Eva Purple Ball seems to do well in the heat as well.

bigbubbacain · March 26, 2009

I got mine out on 2/17. Plants were already kinda big so I was concerned. I was so surprised 2 weeks later to see that Black and Brown Boar already had set a cluster of fruit. Monomakh's Hat and Indian Stripe were also surprises for me with early fruit set, and the soil was still on the cool side too. My schedule didn't allow for me to cover the plants when we had a few cool nights, but the heavy mulching I applied seemed help. I've only lost 2 Jaune Flamme' plants so far, and think I can contribute this to a bad seed lot because they also died on me last year. I'm like DuaJones. I too have a good feeling about this year's season.

feldon30 · March 26, 2009

I'm starting to wonder what I'm going to get this year. All this torrential rain could really set things back I'm afraid.

duajones · March 26, 2009

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I'm starting to wonder what I'm going to get this year. All this torrential rain could really set things back I'm afraid.

Thats too bad. If we could have split what you got we both might be better off. I did get a half inch this afternoon but we are still close to 5 inches behind for the year. Radar earlier looked like you guys got it heavy

creister · March 27, 2009

It looks like we may get snow flurries this evening. Plastic is back over the plants until Sunday PM.

FlipTX · March 27, 2009

I have little tomatoes on my Big Beef. This plant grows FAST. Every time I go outside, it looks like it has new leaves and/or flowers.

March 24, 2009	#20
duajones Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Corpus Christi,Texas Z9 Posts: 1,996	Break O'Day is in a league of its own at this point as one of the plants has 13 fruit on it already. __________________ Duane Jones

March 24, 2009	#23
duajones Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Corpus Christi,Texas Z9 Posts: 1,996	I am hoping for similar results Curt. May end up being a mainstay in my garden. And good luck with your volunteer Flip, hope they taste good as well. __________________ Duane Jones

March 26, 2009	#27
feldon30 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2006 Location: Rock Hill, SC Posts: 5,346	I'm starting to wonder what I'm going to get this year. All this torrential rain could really set things back I'm afraid. __________________ [SIZE="3"]I've relaunched my gardening website -- [B]TheUnconventionalTomato.com[/B][/SIZE] * [I][SIZE="1"]*I'm not allowed to post weblinks so you'll have to copy-paste it manually.[/SIZE][/I]

March 11, 2009	#16
creister Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Abilene, TX zone 7 Posts: 1,478	Locally, we are forcasted to not get out of the 30's until Saturday. Yesterday, I made some shelters out of crw cages. I laid them on their sides, surrounded with gallon jugs full of water, covered with rowcover and clear plastic, as rain is forecast. Congrats on the fruitset Duane. Break O'Day is a tomato machine. I must have picked about 40 or so from it last year. An excellent main cropper.

March 11, 2009	#18
newgardener_tx Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: austin, tx Posts: 249	Hornstrider, I like your pictures. You got a stubbon horse! Only people in Texas has to cover their plants because we think spring in March is still not early enough! We need to move it to February. I bought some 1/4"x10 PVC and 1"x10 (cut to 1 feet long each as the stand) tubes and 3 mm plastic and made two simple hoops to cover my open area plants. Is this enough? 37-39C for Friday and Saturday. Cry me a river if this happens again New gardener in TX

March 11, 2009	#19
hornstrider Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Hutto, Texas Posts: 230	newgardener.....It's my neighbors horse, and you are correct he is a real coot....I made the mistake of feeding him veggie plant leaves, carrrots ect over the fence..and now he expects it.......in fact I planted extra carrots for him this year........but after fooling w/ me that cold windy weekend I am having second thoughts..you should not have to worry......there is no frost, or freeze in the forcast.....my maters made it through the last cold front (29 deg) in the tunnels w/ 1 gal. jugs of water next to the plants

March 24, 2009	#22
FlipTX Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 271	I have seven or eight little tomatoes on my volunteer, ranging from pea to golf ball size. It also has some of the darkest green leaves I've ever seen on a tomato plant.

March 24, 2009	#24
captnkirk Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: florida Posts: 126	Solarfire and Goosecreek are 1st to set for me,both are 1st timers for me.Now if the rest will get to it.I know stupice will be fine it always sets well here.FloridaPink Brandywine OTV and Brandyboy are the 3 larger varieties i have growing also 1st timers that i hope will do well here in florida.A few others im still waiting for to set are Druzba,Eva purple ball,carmello,Rowdyred,BigBeef OP from tomato fest,and Burbank. kirk

March 25, 2009	#25
creister Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Abilene, TX zone 7 Posts: 1,478	Kirk, SolarFire will make you alot of tomatoes. I grew it one year in a 5 gallon bucket. Did very well in our heat. Eva Purple Ball seems to do well in the heat as well.

March 26, 2009	#26
bigbubbacain Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Zone 9 Texas, Fort Bend County Posts: 436	I got mine out on 2/17. Plants were already kinda big so I was concerned. I was so surprised 2 weeks later to see that Black and Brown Boar already had set a cluster of fruit. Monomakh's Hat and Indian Stripe were also surprises for me with early fruit set, and the soil was still on the cool side too. My schedule didn't allow for me to cover the plants when we had a few cool nights, but the heavy mulching I applied seemed help. I've only lost 2 Jaune Flamme' plants so far, and think I can contribute this to a bad seed lot because they also died on me last year. I'm like DuaJones. I too have a good feeling about this year's season.

March 27, 2009	#29
creister Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Abilene, TX zone 7 Posts: 1,478	It looks like we may get snow flurries this evening. Plastic is back over the plants until Sunday PM.