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3 hours ago, Gunsmoke said:

My tomato plants don't have anywhere close to the amount of flowers as in previous years, at least up until now.  Anyone else also experiencing the same thing?

 

Not a whole lot of growth up here.  Tomatoes don't like a lot of water.  Seen one plant had a half dollar size tomato coming.  A couple huckleberries are just starting to turn purple.  The turkeys are hanging around the bushes now.

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1 hour ago, Swamprat said:

My boys have picked about a dozen or so cherry tomatoes in the last week.  Bunch of cayennes growing just waiting til they are red. 

Today they dumped one of their tater buckets. Made it almost 3 months. Got 3 more buckets on the deck. The quarter is for size reference. 

 

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Wait a week or two after the tops die.  Won't say what that tomato looks like, might get in trouble, but she's a hot tomato

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11 minutes ago, Greybeard said:

Wait a week or two after the tops die.  Won't say what that tomato looks like, might get in trouble, but she's a hot tomato

Yeah I've told my boys that.  About waiting til they turn but they wanted to check one.  Got a few more buckets we will let grow. 

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7 hours ago, hunterbob1 said:

What variety? I picked 4 days ago,more coming.

Early girls.

6 different varieties.  Cherokee Purple, Brandywine, Rutgers and grape tomato, yellow cherry, and one other.  All of them producing little flowers.

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20 hours ago, Gunsmoke said:

My tomato plants don't have anywhere close to the amount of flowers as in previous years, at least up until now.  Anyone else also experiencing the same thing?

 

Same here.  Burlington county. I  planted cherry and beefsteak. It's what my wife and kids like. I have some other random stuff in pots and the pots are doing better. Not sure if it's because that soil can warm up faster, drain faster, not competing against other plants/weeds. Got about a dozen cherries so far and the beefsteaks are no bigger than a tennis ball. Cucumbers are starting to climb and have some flowers but no actual veggie yet. 

Cayennes and ghosts in pots are doing fine. 

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53 minutes ago, Swamprat said:

Cayennes and ghosts in pots are doing fine. 

Ghosts......Your a brave man.

“In a civilized and cultivated country, wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen.” -Theodore Roosevelt

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21 hours ago, Gunsmoke said:

6 different varieties.  Cherokee Purple, Brandywine, Rutgers and grape tomato, yellow cherry, and one other.  All of them producing little flowers.

Never grew them.A friend of mine had a small nursery,Franklin Farms he turned me on to early girls, celebrity and jet star.

“In a civilized and cultivated country, wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen.” -Theodore Roosevelt

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13 hours ago, hunterbob1 said:

Never grew them.A friend of mine had a small nursery,Franklin Farms he turned me on to early girls, celebrity and jet star.

The Cherokee Purple are delicious although delicate and have to be picked on time.  I'm trying the Brandywine for the first time.  How are the early girls?

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13 minutes ago, Gunsmoke said:

The Cherokee Purple are delicious although delicate and have to be picked on time.  I'm trying the Brandywine for the first time.  How are the early girls?

Perfect!Not tart not sour Jersey best!

“In a civilized and cultivated country, wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen.” -Theodore Roosevelt

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