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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on Jul 5, 2017 8:47:21 GMT -5
Some of the direct seeded plants are growing well and catching up fast. Some are doing better than the transplants. I think my soil just sucks when it comes to tomatoes which is why i need varieties that do well in it. One is nearing blooms. Which is impressive. Not sure what it is since they were planted grex style in rows. I've been weeding around the bigger ones. Can't afford to have plants that don't grow well. Whatever grows the best and quickest gets selected for. I'm impressed since these were seeded late for tomatoes. We will see how they do in the coming months.
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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on Jul 5, 2017 15:57:29 GMT -5
How are the Potato leaved plants in your Grex performing? Any signs of your fast growing exserted stigma PL named Magnus? Victory Seeds lists it as 90 DTM from maturity. I think a few potato leaved plants are showing up with at least two of the larger ones being potato leaved. I guess it's not apparent in the small seedlings. But i have at least two potato leaved varieties in there. Magnus was the one i was most interested in. It seemed to have vigorous seedlings last year before i managed to make them all die. It also is a very old variety mentioned in several papers as having exerted stigmas and having the highest outcrossing rate of those studied way back then. The other PL variety is Ponderosa. Also supposed to have exerted stigmas i think. |
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Post by imgrimmer on Jul 6, 2017 15:54:29 GMT -5
one of the volunteers has already set fruit. that is as fast as my "normal" greenhouse sown tomatoes. That is is pretty exciting! I planted a tomato of my late blight tolerant strain beside. Hope to do some crosspollination by hand later.
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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on Aug 10, 2017 19:13:56 GMT -5
Seeing some fruits setting on the direct seeded! I have several ribbed tomatoes which is interesting, wondering how they'll do. I see at least one plant of Joseph's Wild Zebra making an appearance i think. And a few others. One looks like a cherry. Can't remember if i added that one galapagos one that did well for me last year. (i have another plant i transplanted in another spot that is doing well (i think its got some domestic ancestry though). Either way, excited to see what happens!
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Post by imgrimmer on Aug 13, 2017 1:26:52 GMT -5
There are first fruits on the volunteers but still green since some weeks, weather is too rainy and cool. Josephs Frosty Landrace (not direct seeded but very late sown) is the first with a ripe fruit I guess I will try this one next year as direct seeded. It is very short season.
Late blight is becoming a real threat now.
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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on Jan 21, 2018 12:59:59 GMT -5
William, how do you feel you have done so far in regards to this project? Do you feel you have accomplished your original goals? Do you now have new goals? Like Joseph, do you now have other spin-off projects from this? I think you said you almost had too much success, haha. Not sure if that is possible, but i know what you mean. Trying this several years in a row may have differences like one year having lots of cold weather or lots of drought and heat. finding/selecting varieties that can adapt to those variable conditions i think would be very valuable as well as finding varieties that do well in terms of taste, size, and production. Are you preferring determinate, indeterminate, or wild tomatoes? What do you think your goals for the future will be?
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Post by imgrimmer on Jan 28, 2020 3:59:29 GMT -5
Do the direct seeded tomatoes ripen at the same time as the pregrown plants?
Mine are later. Last year I could pick only a few fruits of them. The year before was much better.
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Post by reed on Jan 28, 2020 5:46:20 GMT -5
Here direct seeded and volunteer get just as big and ripen just as soon as the transplants. I'v considered stopping the practice of starting transplants but it would be harder to keep track of what I'm growing if I did. Would have to tag all the plantings and watch close to keep volunteers from mixing in. I'm not all that careful in cleanup, tomato seeds could be anywhere.
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Post by imgrimmer on Jun 12, 2020 8:50:56 GMT -5
This is a bad year for direct seeded as well as volunteer tomatoes.
I sowed in march. So far only around 10- 20 germinated. I found only 1 volunteer. All are very small. Last year I already had flowering plants around this time.
I suspect it is the drought which harms them.
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Post by xdrix on Jun 12, 2020 11:48:35 GMT -5
At the place wich i put a mulching i have the tomato wich grow by ten. I have more of ten plant of tomato at the m2!  |
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Post by imgrimmer on Dec 20, 2020 7:08:34 GMT -5
direct seeded tomatoes from 2020 direct sown in march, replanted in late may due to weed problems my own landrace, strongly segregating, many types of fruits, some showed good late blight tolerance   |
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Post by xdrix on Dec 20, 2020 11:05:04 GMT -5
My big problem for the direct seedling is not the freez but the slugs.They could eaten all the plants in germination.I found often the rod cut by the slugs.Can i selected for a very good rootening after a slug attack? or for the capacity to grow fast without cotyledon.I have see of tomato ramified after have the meristhem totaly eaten after a slug attack but it was very slow. This year i have try to cutting a few tomato attacked by the slugs a few days after the germination but with a very mitigate sucess. imgrimmer when have you take those photos? |
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Post by imgrimmer on Dec 21, 2020 2:51:21 GMT -5
There were also problems with slugs. These were the only plants that managed to germinate out of hundreds. I wondered what happened to all the seed, but now I suspect it was eaten by slugs.
the pictures were taken in summer, around 25 August. these plants were late. after germination they didn't grow any further for a long time and were only 5cm tall, then after transplanting I think it was in June they started to grow.
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