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ANC

ANC

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No brother, just go get some bonemeal, you should even be able to get a bag at the supermarket. if they have a nursery section or sell some garden stuff. It is very cheap. Work it into the soil, don;t just sprinkle on top. It does not migrite through soil as easily as other nutrients. I see you are growing a strain of big tomatoes, those do take alot of patience, My big ones are only ready now, while my medium tomato bush have been giving harvests for two months allready.
 
homer371

homer371

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Thanks bro, I will get a bag of bone meal and mix it in with my FFOF soil when I transplant it to a bigger pot this weekend. I'll keep you posted :)

By the way the tomato looks big in that pic, but it's only about 1" diameter. It looks asymmetric so I'm hoping it's an heirloom even if that means having to wait longer.
 
robert 14617

robert 14617

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As the mixture ferments, the liquid will become a darker color and a foamy “scum” will form on the top. Within four or five days the fermentation will have dissolved the gel casing around the seeds. Don’t leave the seeds in the fermenting liquid longer than that because without the gel casing, they may start to sprout.
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the tomato had to be nasty for this to happen , what you have is hybrid seeds from the plant it will not be like the plant the tomato came from
 
homer371

homer371

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I'm intrigued and a little frightened by your post robert... What fermenting mixture are you referring to? Sorry, confused.
 
robert 14617

robert 14617

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that is a clip from a site that tells how to save tomato seeds , the gel inside the tomato keep it from germinating it takes the gel time to rot before the seeds can germ
 
homer371

homer371

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Oh I see. Yeah I found the seedling growing on a dirty kitchen rag that I hadn't touched in a while, so there must have been a random seed stuck there and the gel had time to dissolve, or whatever, lol. Can you tell from my pics if I have a determinate or indeterminate tomato plant on my hands?
 
ANC

ANC

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My most productive plant is one that just came up by itself, a totaly diffirent type to the ones I planted. Probably form something a neigbour tossed over the wall.
P.S. I can see its a big strain by the size of the little green leafs that crown the tomato, your still have big shoes to grow into.
 
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thepodpiper

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homer371 said:
It looks asymmetric so I'm hoping it's an heirloom even if that means having to wait longer.
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Shape, color, size or days to maturity actually have nothing to do with it being an heirloom. The only real way to tell is by knowing the variety name. Also determinates usually grow bushier rather than taller and they stay bushy, around 4'. once they get around 3-4 ft. they produce all tomatoes at one time and all will harvest around the same time.

Dale
 
homer371

homer371

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thanks for the replies guys. i guess i will find out soon enough if it's determinate or indeterminate... there are two tomatoes so far, 1 and 1/2 inches in diameter. so if that's it, well that's it i guess, lol.

i am planning to transplant tomorrow (from 2-gallon pot to 5-gallon pot), and i just bought a bag of bone meal thanks to your suggestion ANC. and i'll probably add a couple more lights and see what happens. i'll post an update if something cool (or horrible) happens!
 
akgrown

akgrown

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if you want you can pick some tomatoes while green, slice em and bread em then fry them, its a southern treat.
 
homer371

homer371

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yeah, i have no idea where the seed came from. if the current appearance of the tomatoes is any indication, they look to be heirlooms, so i'm *hoping* it came from a local market, and maybe just maybe it's indeterminate. i just finished transplanting to 5-gallon pot, mixed a good amount of bone meal in the fox farms soil, and hoping for the best!

and if nothing else i'll have TWO fried green tomatoes!
 
homer371

homer371

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hey serapis, you missed the begining of the story. one day (last october) i found a seedling growing on a kitchen rag. don't know how it got there, but i planted it in soil, two months later i realized it was a tomato plant, and i started taking better care of it. now it's producing 2 nice tomatoes. never done it before, NO idea what strain lol.
 
earthrages

earthrages

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john pickle said:
So i had a tomato sitting on a shelf above my sink for about a month.

I looked today after ignoring it for the past month, and sprouts were everywhere on it!
The seeds germinated and a number of them were even busting out of the skin!

So, i opened up the tomato and carefully scrapped as many sprouts as i could, many of them ripped, some came out in good condition, they had little root systems and green leaves and the whole package! There were probably about 50 sprouts in this one store bought tomato easy.

So, after picking them out i washed them under the sink to get the slimy tomato juice off them and put them in soil in my home made humidity dome.

Anyone have any experiences similar to this?
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Oh yeah, I had this happen, but, instead, with a butternut squash. But, I didn't do anything with the sprouts, unfortunately. I had the squash for a week and a half, or longer, before I cut it open. The sprouts were really healthy looking, but the squash (after being baked) was bad and made my husband sick.
 
ANC

ANC

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Be very carefull of squash and the like they are often hybrids and the seed can produce vegetables that are bad.
It is especialy likely with veges from the shops.
Rather buy seed, its not that expensive. Veggies is like weed, good seed, makes good veggies.
I sometimes buy stuff like tomatoes only for the seed.
 
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