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Old May 5, 2020   #1
slugworth
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Default extra mileage from determinate plants

Started livingston independence day tomatoes indoors sept 25th
Nov 25th they had blossoms.60 days after that I had tomatoes.
The plants started to peter out but had suckers near the bottoms.
I took cuttings above the suckers and cloned the cuttings.
Those have blossoms and a tiny green tomato.
The tray with 3 suckers I had under led grow lights so I put them
outside today in the sun and will bring them in and out
until it is warm enough out;usually memorial day weekend here.
The clones were in a south window and got blossoms with just
the natural sunlight coming in.
So it is possible with determinate plants to get more than 1 crop.


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Old May 6, 2020   #2
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Normally those suckers would have grown on the original plant as well from my experience. So as long as there are any suckers forming, the plant will go on. On almost all determinates I tried, the second wave was bigger than the first, and then I got a third but that was really at the end of the season. There was an old varierty I tried once that was a true determinate, not sure how it was called, it basically had almost no stem, just sprouted a bunch of flower stalks with some leaves in it, and that was it. It really was much faster in getting an early decent crop (the taste was quite poor, probably due to way too much fruit for the amount of leaves).
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