Tomatoes Not Growing

[dragoneggs]

^^^ I have been letting some of my larger tomatoes ripen in the house once they get a little past pink due to my late start and our cool late summer. Plus one of my tomato patches is remote so I pick in advance what would ripen between visits. The 2 inch and under varieties are ripening fine on the plant.

At some point in October, we will pull the entire plants and hang them upside down either inside or the garage and let them ripen some more on the vine.

 

[goeduck]

Well this looks like the final salvage haul of the year from my remote tomato patch. Three times this amount on the ground rotting. We had a late blight blast that wiped out the remaining maters. Oh well, 20+ gallons put up. There will be a lot of cutting out the bad spots on this haul....:tomato: :tomato:

 

[Frankenkubota]

LOL. On my phone it looks like a pot plant on steroids!

10 years ago, in Oregon, I got curious about the medical weed situation and just how everything worked. I went into a grow store, or what they call an indoor garden store and asked about growing weed.

The guy got real serious and pointed at a sign that said something like all, products sold are for tomato production. He said if I used any terminology in any way associated with weed I壇 have to leave. He went on to say growing tomatoes was pretty much exactly like growing weed.

I could go on and on about how the govt. screws things up but the medical weed situation in Oregon is as bad as it gets.

As I said, I could go on and on, the meaningless regulations, the huge fees they collect, and all those highly motivated state employees hired to admin. the program. I could write a book.

Two Things happened as a result of medical weed in Oregon.

1. If you are on welfare, they call it ssi or snap because they are ashamed to say welfare. If you are on the dole, the govt. will either supplement your purchases of medical weed or, you get it free! Plus with the China virus, they friggin deliver it to you free. The State pays!

Is this a great country or what?

2. The black market is thriving. Because of the crazy fees and licenses the govt collects, the black market responded, just like prohibition.

The problem with having an uneducated population is they continue to do the same stupid stuff they have always done.

A bit of historical perspective would help. Not only does the govt. have no right to legislate morality, since it痴 incompetent in all things, it fails again and again.

As a side note, I really don稚 care what the govt. says about morality. The notion that some govt. employee is gonna tell me what is right and wrong is laughable.

They tell me it Grows Just like tomatoes.

 

[cqaigy2]

Well this looks like the final salvage haul of the year from my remote tomato patch. Three times this amount on the ground rotting. We had a late blight blast that wiped out the remaining maters. Oh well, 20+ gallons put up. There will be a lot of cutting out the bad spots on this haul....:tomato: :tomato:
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I'd be jumping up and down, if i'd gotten that kind of haul. Good for you!

 

[goeduck]

:licking:

I'd be jumping up and down, if i'd gotten that kind of haul. Good for you!

Considering there is probably 2 gallons of salvage in this batch, that gets me to 22 gallons or a little less than 2 quarts a week. Just about right :licking: :tomato: :tomato: :tomato: :licking:

 

[dragoneggs]

Been another great year although still a bunch of greenies still on the vine that will never ripen. Here are a few of our cherry tomatoes and also some wannabe's.

 

[goeduck]

Clean looking! How did you escape late blight?

 

[dragoneggs]

Clean looking! How did you escape late blight?

We didn't get blight but did have some blossom rot on some of the heirlooms. We water in the morning only via soaker hose or drip irrigation (greenhouse). Try to keep the leaves and fruit dry as possible.

Wife also uses lime before planting and uses baking soda and sometimes puts an aspirin (yep aspirin) at the base of the plant after planting.

You really have to watch for the onsite of blight and remove the branch and fruit completely and destroy. Don't throw it in your compost. We throw it in the burn pile.

 

[Industrial Toys]

The vapour barrier put over the tomatoes when frost time approached was the saving factor. Still have a few tomates in the house, and I am surprised the crop was salvaged this late.

 

[goeduck]

We didn't get blight but did have some blossom rot on some of the heirlooms. We water in the morning only via soaker hose or drip irrigation (greenhouse). Try to keep the leaves and fruit dry as possible.

Wife also uses lime before planting and uses baking soda and sometimes puts an aspirin (yep aspirin) at the base of the plant after planting.

You really have to watch for the onsite of blight and remove the branch and fruit completely and destroy. Don't throw it in your compost. We throw it in the burn pile.

I thought blight was always in the soil around here and it was more a matter of weather, spacing, water, etc. The patch that got it bad had never had tomatoes or potatoes but I did have it planted too dense. I over planted starts and went ahead and put them out tighter than normal. I do use a soaker hose on a timer and I likely will plant there again next year but less dense and with fabric over the soil. Happens to be the warmest place on the farm so I will see how it goes next year. The late summer did not help.