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Old April 16, 2017   #226
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Default Seedlings for unheated and heated greenhouses in Iceland

Here are the cold tolerant varieties for this year in the evening sun. Sown just under a month ago. 32 varieties. All bush type except for Stupice.They will be planted out in two unheated tunnelhouses (18m long) on May 1.
Also an image of the seedlings for the geothermally heated hothouse,10 days old. Extra good tasting 48 different varieties.
Happy easter from Iceland.
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Old April 16, 2017   #227
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You have a nice seedlings. I am interested in which bush varieties of tomatoes you grow. Can you write their names?
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Old April 16, 2017   #228
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Yes Vladimir,
I first got some 24 cold tolerant varieties in 2013 from Andrey, to start with, and am now growing the following varieties from that selection:
Spiridonovskie (Saraev var. The most cold tolerant tomato plant there is!)
Utyonok
Boney M
Arbalet
Nikola
Skorospelka
Zorka
Then in 2015 Tatiana sent me
0-33 (a Sarev variety) a great producer and a good control plant.
And last year I grew 11 Saraev varieties from Tatiana of which these I am growing again this year:
Saraev.Otbor
Saraev.Otbor1
Saraev.Bezrassadnyi
Saraev.Druzhnyi
Saraev.Shtambovyi
Saraev.I-2
Saraev.M-22
Then there are three tiny varieties I got originally from Casey's heirloom
Venus
Rejina red
Rejina yellow
This year I got some varieties from a friend in Norway that do well there outside:
Sub Artic
Katja
Bujan Zholty
Zoloteo Serdce
Siberian Korzir
Pokusa
Norderås Busk
Kord Sibir
Those are the ones for this year in the unheated tunnel houses.
If you need seeds I have them.
Also I would welcome suggestion from you for varieties for my environment
Here is an image from last year.
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Old April 16, 2017   #229
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Pretty pic. I like your roof vents.
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Old April 16, 2017   #230
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I did have heat pumps to open the vents automaticaally but removed them and now the system is manual, since I need to open them as soon as the sun comes up get rid of the moisture. Then no fans are needed. Guess I will automate that in the near future.
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Old April 17, 2017   #231
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I potted up some tomato seedlings today and realized I did something stupid. I label my seeds with abbreviations, but this year I was starting seeds for Bear Creek and Black Cherry--both 'BC'.

I write out my label sticks and plant seeds, one variety at a time.
So I did Bear Creek--BC (at least I'm fairly sure) and moved next to the list. Saw BC and thought I was done, so moved to the next, thereby skipping Black Cherry. I started seeds on 4/2--Black Cherry (BKC) got planted today 4/17. We'll see how much of a difference the 2 weeks makes. At least it was early enough to correct the problem.
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Old April 20, 2017   #232
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One of my New Big Dwarf plants is obviously not a dwarf. Does that make it Pink Ponderosa, I wonder? (NBD was first discovered growing in a field of Pink Ponderosa)

And unless it is a labeling error, one of my Sweet Sues came up RL. I potted that plant up to a 5-gallon bucket and am excited to see what I will get.

My other project is my unstable Paul Robeson. I need to grow out the PL plants I keep getting to see what they make.
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Old April 20, 2017   #233
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Top pic is my Emily Basil.
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Old April 20, 2017   #234
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Wow Cole!
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Old April 20, 2017   #235
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They look impressive, Cole. Must sell like hot cake.
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Old April 20, 2017   #236
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Thanks. And yeah, I'm hoping. There's about 800 plants in 4" pots in that pic. I have a few hundred more to pot up. I'll need about another 200 or so for my garden, but the rest need to sell soon. It looks like rain for market this Saturday. I think my craigslist ad will go up after it stops raining on about Monday.
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Old April 21, 2017   #237
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Great looking plants Cole!
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Old April 21, 2017   #238
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Every bodies plants look nice.
I wish I had flat land to put up a nice green house.

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Old April 21, 2017   #239
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Great looking greenhouses and plants! Wow!
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Old April 21, 2017   #240
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Every bodies plants look nice.
I wish I had flat land to put up a nice green house.

Worth
That reminds me of how I neglected to level off the dirt before I set up my greenhouse, this year. All the water that drained out went to one end of some of the trays. I stuffed some soil under the greenhouse to correct the biggest issue. However, for the last two or three days, I've had a toad that talks to me from under the tarp that's under my greenhouse whenever I go to water stuff. I wouldn't have known what it was if I hadn't studied toad calls in 2015 or so. I guess it's living under the tarp, in the middle of the greenhouse (I'm not sure if it would do that if it were level—probably, since toads like to stay warm, and they might find a way). It's just a small 6'x5'x3' unheated greenhouse in our backyard (I only use it for seed-starting). It's getting some wear, though. It turns out that the vents don't seem to be UV resistant, though (same for the plastic fittings). If I ever get another one, or repair this one, I should spray those down with something to make it UV resistant. The cover itself is UV resistant, though (and durable).

Just as an update, most of my seeds have germinated (still plenty of peppers, most of the watermelons, lots of the muskmelons, and a good number of store-bought/gifted/traded tomatoes, and a few saved-seed tomatoes to go). They just have cotyledons, though, so far. I transplanted five plants like that last night (to see how they do; I have extras in the greenhouse if it turns out I need them). If someone wants to know what sprouted when, you can look at my website from my profile at the 2017 tomato growlist (or what-have-you).

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