How to grow tomatoes, p. 2: Maintaining and harvesting
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Date: 2020-06-23
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Daniel
as a hobby grower, here are some things i found out about growing tomatoes:
its easier to just wrap the plant around the pole as it grows giving you a much smaller chance to injure your plant (which could cause infections.
I use a clothes line that i tied to the top of my greenhouse and loosely wrap it around the plant as it grows.
to get rid of aphits i just shoot them off with a fairly strong water jet by closing the hoses valve almost completely.
it works super easy and it makes you able to eat the tomatoes right there on the spot if you want that for some reason.
also dont water your plants too much, as it will cause them to just build an abundanse of foliage and no flowers.
did dr. lehoulier say sth about cutting a lot of the lower healthy branches? a lot of hobby growers i met online claim it increases the amount of energy the plant puts into the part where the fruit grow and reducing the chance of disease.
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as a hobby grower, here are some things i found out about growing tomatoes:
its easier to just wrap the plant around the pole as it grows giving you a much smaller chance to injure your plant (which could cause infections.
I use a clothes line that i tied to the top of my greenhouse and loosely wrap it around the plant as it grows.
to get rid of aphits i just shoot them off with a fairly strong water jet by closing the hoses valve almost completely.
it works super easy and it makes you able to eat the tomatoes right there on the spot if you want that for some reason.
also dont water your plants too much, as it will cause them to just build an abundanse of foliage and no flowers.
did dr. lehoulier say sth about cutting a lot of the lower healthy branches? a lot of hobby growers i met online claim it increases the amount of energy the plant puts into the part where the fruit grow and reducing the chance of disease.
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RorixP4P
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I would like that statement in your video to be corrected so as to avoid people from being misled into purchasing something that doesn't work. If it's something the company has told you, they've been lying to you.
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Just a heads up, your sponsor Surfshark (and any Western registered, popular VPN service such as the perennial NordVPN) will have spotty at best and completely unusable at worst connectivity in China. I'm an expat who has been living in the country for years and we have transitioned away from these services a very long time ago in favour of much smaller and harder to track boutique V2Ray providers, or we set up the proxies ourselves to avoid detection.
I would like that statement in your video to be corrected so as to avoid people from being misled into purchasing something that doesn't work. If it's something the company has told you, they've been lying to you.
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James
Yes that would be correct. The breeding in most supermarkets are hybrids to ensure higher yield which sacrifices the heirloom flavour. They also ship them green and spray them with artificial ethylene gas to help them turn up red at the supermarkets. I say artificial because fruits naturally produce this 'Ethylene' which is a ripening gas just not at the rate of the sprayed. You can do this naturally as the video says by picking a tomato early but if you put them with other fruits like bananas, apples which emit gas then you'll speed up the process.
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Yes that would be correct. The breeding in most supermarkets are hybrids to ensure higher yield which sacrifices the heirloom flavour. They also ship them green and spray them with artificial ethylene gas to help them turn up red at the supermarkets. I say artificial because fruits naturally produce this 'Ethylene' which is a ripening gas just not at the rate of the sprayed. You can do this naturally as the video says by picking a tomato early but if you put them with other fruits like bananas, apples which emit gas then you'll speed up the process.
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Eral
I kept killing my purples I was trying to start in my window so I resorted to just growing the tomato weeds in our warehouse garden. which is a mix of whatever was in the compost or whatever is growing form last years droppings. Great advice on the pruning! I'm growing deets rn. One thing I do in the morning is take a vibrating tooth brush and put em up to new flowers. you'll see pollen dispersing. That will a be a tomato more likely than not now. At the same time i'll pollenate the male to female zuchini flowers. but thats off subject.
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I kept killing my purples I was trying to start in my window so I resorted to just growing the tomato weeds in our warehouse garden. which is a mix of whatever was in the compost or whatever is growing form last years droppings. Great advice on the pruning! I'm growing deets rn. One thing I do in the morning is take a vibrating tooth brush and put em up to new flowers. you'll see pollen dispersing. That will a be a tomato more likely than not now. At the same time i'll pollenate the male to female zuchini flowers. but thats off subject.
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Captain
Yeah I don t take them all off either. I kind of just prune suckers for aeration and disease.
Are use wheat straw and grass clippings for mulch. I buy bales of straw for my Thanksgiving yard themed decorations. I grow plants in those bales with the blood meal. Then I throw straw off to the side of the house in a semi protected area. Just let them sit there in a big bunch of bundles. Then come March I use those out in my garden as mulch.
Make sure you re wearing a mask while you re applying that DE
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Yeah I don t take them all off either. I kind of just prune suckers for aeration and disease.
Are use wheat straw and grass clippings for mulch. I buy bales of straw for my Thanksgiving yard themed decorations. I grow plants in those bales with the blood meal. Then I throw straw off to the side of the house in a semi protected area. Just let them sit there in a big bunch of bundles. Then come March I use those out in my garden as mulch.
Make sure you re wearing a mask while you re applying that DE
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Hannah
For anyone curious who wants to grow tomatoes, tarp planting is something I've used for a long time. It gives plants warmth, keeps the soil from splashing onto the plants, and recycles some of the water by trapping in the evaporation under the tarp. You can still use mulch around the base of the plants if needed, but I found it doesn't make much of a difference as long as you keep the tarps clean.
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For anyone curious who wants to grow tomatoes, tarp planting is something I've used for a long time. It gives plants warmth, keeps the soil from splashing onto the plants, and recycles some of the water by trapping in the evaporation under the tarp. You can still use mulch around the base of the plants if needed, but I found it doesn't make much of a difference as long as you keep the tarps clean.
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NewKira
Thanks for the Godfather spoiler, I've manage to not get spoiled for this whole saga of movies my entire life, saving it for a special moment to watch, but than, from a guy that I really like and look up to, a bomb like that, why Adam? Why?
Ps: spoilers do not have an expiration date, so it does not matter the year of what is being spoiled, it is still spoiler.
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Thanks for the Godfather spoiler, I've manage to not get spoiled for this whole saga of movies my entire life, saving it for a special moment to watch, but than, from a guy that I really like and look up to, a bomb like that, why Adam? Why?
Ps: spoilers do not have an expiration date, so it does not matter the year of what is being spoiled, it is still spoiler.
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Jonathan
Thank you! This video was perfectly timed. I have just-barely-beginning-to-fruit tomato plants in pots on my back patio right now, and I'm a first time home grower.
The video hit on many questions I have recently started asking myself regarding my gardening, and now I've got good answers on what I need to be doing now and through the next few weeks.
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Thank you! This video was perfectly timed. I have just-barely-beginning-to-fruit tomato plants in pots on my back patio right now, and I'm a first time home grower.
The video hit on many questions I have recently started asking myself regarding my gardening, and now I've got good answers on what I need to be doing now and through the next few weeks.
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bloodgain
Wait, wait. If you cage, there's no need to prune the suckers at all? WHAT? Now I'm doubly sad I didn't plant any tomatoes this year (or anything else.
Also, Dr. LeHoullier is my hero for reintroducing the Purple Cherokee. I am still not a huge raw tomato eater, but those are amazing. BLTs every day when I can get those.
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Wait, wait. If you cage, there's no need to prune the suckers at all? WHAT? Now I'm doubly sad I didn't plant any tomatoes this year (or anything else.
Also, Dr. LeHoullier is my hero for reintroducing the Purple Cherokee. I am still not a huge raw tomato eater, but those are amazing. BLTs every day when I can get those.
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