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Misc Winter 22-23 Whamby and Banter Thread Part 2

Avalanche said:
Have you always left the suckers on them to bush out? I do bc I think it makes a prettier plant, but for good tomatoes I’ve heard you need to pinch off all the suckers and just have one long vine.
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I read a study on it once. Suckering gives you bigger but fewer. The total harvest rate is the same either way.
 
RainlessSnowless & Grumpy said:
80 degrees is more likely than 20 degrees this February at GSP. I said what I said
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I made this post mid January because I believed it based on recent history. Looks like it's coming true. Parts of the Carolinas in the coastal plain could touch 90 and challenge all time Feb records. It's ridiculous at this point. What a time to be alive if you're snowlover in the Carolina's.
 
Heelyes said:
Suckering makes the plant easier to tie up. I take all the suckers off up to the first flowers and have two main leaders. View attachment 133384
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So to make sure I got this right, you don’t sucker the first one and let it grow, but you sucker all the rest off of your two vines? Nice clusters btw, that’s exactly what I want.

The few times I have suckered the stems off before, I just wind up with a long vine that’s 8 foot tall and some tomatoes. A few times I’d cut the heads of the plants off and they’d stay shorter with a lot of suckers and tomatoes, but the fruits would be small.
 
Avalanche said:
So to make sure I got this right, you don’t sucker the first one and let it grow, but you sucker all the rest off of your two vines? Nice clusters btw, that’s exactly what I want.

The few times I have suckered the stems off before, I just wind up with a long vine that’s 8 foot tall and some tomatoes. A few times I’d cut the heads of the plants off and they’d stay shorter with a lot of suckers and tomatoes, but the fruits would be small.
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I don't sucker above the first flower
 
I’m turning into Ugly Kid Joe. I hate everything!!

Can’t get snow in the winter time. Can’t get cumulonimbus in the summer. All I’m left with is either high thin whisky cirrus or gloomy stratus from leftover storms from somewhere else.

Florida is my destination. Cumulonimbus on the daily!!
 
HeelYes what type of tomatoes do you grow? I’m usually rolling with German Johnson’s. Ugly looking but delicious! Yours look similar to Germans, they aren’t smooth skinned like Better Boys.
 
Avalanche said:
HeelYes what type of tomatoes do you grow? I’m usually rolling with German Johnson’s. Ugly looking but delicious! Yours look similar to Germans, they aren’t smooth skinned like Better Boys.
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I mainly grow heirloom, Cherokee purple, Kellogg's breakfast and Virginia sweets produce well. I have been trying some hybrid heirloom that are great, Cherokee carbon is expensive but does really good.
 
Heelyes said:
I mainly grow heirloom, Cherokee purple, Kellogg's breakfast and Virginia sweets produce well. I have been trying some hybrid heirloom that are great, Cherokee carbon is expensive but does really good.
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Which ones get by with the least amount of sun?
 
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Heelyes said:
Not enough sun makes tall plants that don't produce much, there are some variety that do well in containers. Tom thumb is one that comes to mind
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SunSweet cherry tomatoes, great in containers, very sweet orange/yellow ish fruit. Grew for the first time last year. Sweet 100s are good too. All I can do is container garden. Might get a couple of Carolina Reaper plants to grow this year if I can find them. Also saw the other day, the guy who bred the Reaper, has a new one coming soon called pepper X, hotter than reaper by a good bit
 
They now have grafted tomatoes! Have for a few years I guess! They do it as seedlings. Seems like it could be tedious work
 
Heelyes said:
I mainly grow heirloom, Cherokee purple, Kellogg's breakfast and Virginia sweets produce well. I have been trying some hybrid heirloom that are great, Cherokee carbon is expensive but does really good.
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I’ve got Cherokee Purple and Kellogg’s Breakfast in my lineup this year too. I’m trying something new and growing Bloody Butcher corn this year to make my own grits.

I turned my Cub Cadet lawn mower into a lawn tractor this year. It’s a 24HP (in name only) so I put ATV tires on it and a sleeve hitch. Bought a mouldboard plow and disc Harrow since I killed myself last year breaking ground with just a tiller. Works like a dream so far and the tires will help cutting grass with my steep hills.
 
EastmanGAWX said:
As much as I hate to sacrifice colder weather, I would trade this upcoming period of oppressive warmth for a cool summer.
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Cool summer? Doesn’t really happy in the southeast unless it’s particularly rainy. We had that back in 2013 or 2014.


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