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Old March 29, 2006   #31
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To those who wanted Sad Sac seeds--sorry I just got them out last night. I did not have the extra stamps to add to them and the post office machines were out.

I looked and looked for Minnie's advice but could not find it. I know it will turn up and I will give a brief synopsis here when I find it. It is very good--she talks about fertilizing and pruning off tomatoes. I got it from Totally Tomatoes for I think $1???
Definately worth it if you want to grow big ones as she is a master at it.

Good luck with the Sad Sac seeds.
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Old March 31, 2006   #32
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Minnie's pointers are:

1. Select the largest tomato on each of the top 3 or 4 tomato clusters per plant during the first week in July.

2. Take the rest of the tomatoes off each plant and also ....

3. Don't let anymore blossoms turn into fruit.

She dedicates certain plants just for contests and makes sure that they get daily TLC. Her plants are staked with It stands to reason

Keep the plant moist and mulch

Pull all suckers off the plant

Feed weekly with liquid plant food.
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Old March 31, 2006   #33
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Here are a couple of other Web pages that offer "growing tips" for big tomatoes:

http://www.njtomato.com/indice.htm

http://www.bigpumpkins.com/ViewArticle.asp?id=82

http://www.njtomato.com/

Now I gotta get some Big Zac and Sad Sac seeds planted by Bark's moon chart this month or I'll never have a prayer in the grow-outs.

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Old March 31, 2006   #34
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Glad you could give the notes and thanks for the links.
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I'm 0/2 so far with my SS germination after
13 days. Has me a little nervous.

By the way Papa Vic. On that njtomato.com
posting. The 1992 winner, John Samock, is
a neighbor of my Mother-in-Law. He's recently
moved back to New Brunswick after living in
Somerville for some years. He's a very likable,
hale and hearty, elderly gentleman of Hungarian
extraction.

I'll have to get together with him some time soon
and talk tomatoes....JJ61
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I'm 4/8 in 7 days after seeding, but the little guys are rather spindly due to spending too much time in the dark while I was at work. Oh well, that's easy to fix now that they are out and under lights.
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1 of 2 Sad Saccers popped this morning. That's
a relief after two weeks. Now all of my 20 some
first planted varieties are up. Time to turn my
attention to some later planted stock and of
course, "Aunt Hazel"....JJ61
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Great news John ~
Keep the "Sad Sac" up and growing ~

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I haven't chimed in here, because frankly I haven't started seeds yet. It's been so darn cold this spring...well, that's just one of my excuses.

Anyway, I went down to Trafficula, um, I mean Temecula to get some plants from ctomato (chris) and attend his 'tomato talk' at the nursery.** While there, I acquired some *secret ingredients* to put in the planting hole for my Sad Sac tomato. Since chris didn't get in on the SS seed giveaway, I shall raise a plant for him to have as well.

Barb

**I took notes. Among other things, chris admitted to picking his teeth with tomato hornworm horns and using MG and blossom set last year Enough malignment for now.
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Transplanted my Sad Sacs last night ~
These things are huge !

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Quote:
These things are huge !
I have a feeling that this will be the case with Sad Sac.

The fruit in particular.

I was able to leverage some of our buying power and got the following product to support our Sad Sac

**Warning** a bit blue don't click if you're easily offended.
http://tinyurl.com/melhm
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Sorry to say Bully, but the Nut Bra won't load up
for me. Been trying for awhile but can't get the
graphics. However, something tells me that this
really will be a growout with a twist and a few
kinks as well....JJ61
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Bully ...

An "EYE OPENER" @ 8:43am for sure!
The boys @ work are gonna lose it
when I show them this!!!

~ Tom
ps.
All "Sad Sacs" are transplanted
successfully into their new cups.
(never again will I use peat btw)

pss.
I sold my 1st Sad Sac plant on Thurs..
She hardly spoke english, but I was
finally able to convince her hubby
to get $75.00 up for that seedling ...
$70.00 for the plant ...
$5.00 for the soil & cup ...
Truely a vaule in itself ~
I told them this "Sad Sac"
is gonna get bigger and stronger and
produce "MONSTER MATERS" all summer
long ~
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LOL...
finally...

an over the shoulder boulder holder
for men.

jeri
my sad sac is going in the ground today.
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I set up the outdoor coldframe about 2 weeks ago, it works just a touch too well frankly.... i melted a few seedlings.

Its been on and off weatherwise here. If its over 60, I take off the windows.... I love cheap technology!

but yeah, ive got at least 1 Sac up myself.
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