homer371
Well-Known Member
Never done it with a tomato but with squash you inject the stem at the base of where the fruit is growing from. Grampa taught me how to do it, with sugar water I eventually used basic deduction from plant knowledge that the glucose was pretty much a squash steroid as long as ya didn't overdo it. (beet sugar causes more issues even though thats what gramp's used I prefer glucose or dextrose if glucose isn't avaible. or is it dextrose then glucose?)
P.S.
it's the only way any of my buttersquash and pumpkins and watermelon's survive the squirrel onslaught in my area, I even feed them peanut's and millet to appease them and still nature demands more sacrifice... sigh... I just don't wanna pay 80 bucks a lb for a decent organic veggie.
thanks for the info hippysmoke, i might try this glucose injection stuff. also i might've found a friend who can house the mother outdoors, that would be a big relief for my living room space lol (i'm talking about tomato mother of course, the "girls" aren't going anywhere haha).