Veggie Competition for Fun

This is just for fun.

so here are the rules and again this is just for fun and anyone can join.

1. Any type of tomato.
2. can be from cut or seed.
3. can be started now or could have been started 2 months ago as long as it is still growing.
4. your plant you will use must be chosen by this friday and posted.
other than that not much other rules.

here is what i will be doing, i am going to enter my beefsteak tomato plant, it is about 9 inches tall right now, wont go out in the garden to mid may, started from seed, all organic.


here is what the comp will be about.

1. tallest plant.
2. widest plant.
3. healthiest.
4. biggest tomato.
5. ugliest tomato.
6. most toms produced off the one plant.

if im missing something that should be here fill me in guys.
ill post a pick of my plant i am using tomorrow and label its stock so i can keep track of it

I am in, hopefully be able to post pic. today. I will be using a hierloom variety, Brandywine, just started the other day. So they are only about and inch tall.
Are we going to have anything else. Hopefully it is more than just you and me, but if it is, oh well

Sounds good, would be nice to see other tomato plants growing

i'll be up for it if i can. I have a cherry tomato that's about 5 months old and the small tomatoes are starting to get ripe. I can't post a picture until sunday/monday though coz i'm not home right now. If that's fine for the competition i'll post a full update with pics on sunday/monday.

i'm game, this is my first year growing tomatoes, now i have to find my camera.....

lince said:

Sounds good, would be nice to see other tomato plants growing

i'll be up for it if i can. I have a cherry tomato that's about 5 months old and the small tomatoes are starting to get ripe. I can't post a picture until sunday/monday though coz i'm not home right now. If that's fine for the competition i'll post a full update with pics on sunday/monday.

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yes indeed it is fine to post away in here, this thread is our thread now.

lets also do it for bell pepper ( same rules), and lets lets do one more. can any one suggest another plant?

mcpurple said:

yes indeed it is fine to post away in here, this thread is our thread now.

lets also do it for bell pepper ( same rules), and lets lets do one more. can any one suggest another plant?

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Cool i also have a peper plant but not sure if it's bell or italian, will check it out. Another plant could be cucumber

all right so then lets just make it these three.

1. any type of tomato.
2. any type of pepper.
3. any type of cucumber

all pics and updates can be posted in here along with any other non negative or drama filled conversations.
my and your thread is open to all and any

mcpurple said:

all right so then lets just make it these three.

1. any type of tomato.
2. any type of pepper.
3. any type of cucumber

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I was getting nervous when i saw it was just the tomatoes at first, but Im in bro in all 3 categories
I started all my seeds on 2/20 under a 40w t5, and 68w's of cfl and moved them outside about 3 weeks ago..
Burpee hybrid tomatoes and cherry tomatoes, in the ground. They looked like shit until about a week ago...you should make some worst plant categories
NK cucumbers are in the ground to. i have about 15 plants and there climbing all over already, bushy about 3 feet on the trellis in some spots, flowers everywhere and 2 cucumbers about 7" long and growing.
NK jalapenos, NK green bell peppers, NK sweet peppers. some are in the ground and some are in 2 gallon pots. there finally starting to get used to the transplant and being outside. but there growing nice...ill get some new pics up tomorrow guys.

I also have..
3 kinds of lettuce
2 x onion
2 x watermelon
corn
giant pumpkins (just the name, still seedlings)
peas
about 7 kinds of flowers
cilantro
lemon basil

heres some quick pics i could find that big blue thing is my composter, theres a thread on it in the diy section. but the empty area around that is for the corn, pumpkins and more watermelon. i have some peppers there now in pots

Im in for sure going to be putting up one of my big boy tomato plants that is about 14 inch tall right now and is looking great!! Happy growing everyone!!

Last night got down to 23 deg. F.. Lost my tomatoes and peppers. Was able to bring my watermelons in.

Is there anyway we can add watermelons to the list.

Will restart peppers and tomatoes too.

Thanks

plantvision said:

Last night got down to 23 deg. F.. Lost my tomatoes and peppers. Was able to bring my watermelons in.

Is there anyway we can add watermelons to the list.

Will restart peppers and tomatoes too.

Thanks

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that sucks man, sorry to hear it. im growing watermelons to, ive got 4 in the ground and 1 in a 3.5g container, do you leave your on the ground or do you have something for it to climb on?

plantvision said:

Last night got down to 23 deg. F.. Lost my tomatoes and peppers. Was able to bring my watermelons in.

Is there anyway we can add watermelons to the list.

Will restart peppers and tomatoes too.

Thanks

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sorry to hear that man, i know how that goes though had it happen to me a few weeks ago.

and yes we can add water melons to the list. i have black diamond watermelons. they only produced one last year and it was the size of a kids b-ball. they are supposed to get up to like 50 pounds or something so i hope i can get a bigger one this year.

and to new closetgrower. i just leave mine growing along the ground but you can use something for them to climb up on like a small fence or something, same goes with cucumbers and cantaloupe as well.


ok 1st pic is of my bell pepper plant for the comp, it is about 5 inches tall now,2nd pic is my tomato plant it is about 9 inches tall and is a beef steak. i forgot the pic of the cucs and melon. should only be about 15 more days untill plants go in the ground and then they should start to take off with growth ( hopefully).

quick question...since theres not really any dates set how many vegetables can we enter? i have a bunch of plants of each so for biggest cucumber do i just pick one or can we enter throughout the season? if so heres my first entry..im getting a new camera soon, sony cybershot. so this is from my shitty cell phone, ill get a better pic with a tape measure and ill mark it but right now its 7" long and 6" around with about 3 days left

also here is my jalapeno plant that i topped...you can kinda see the new chutes growing in..i have a bunch of plants and not sure which one i want to enter yet but this one is about the best pic my phone can take with the sun right overhead now

i just want to try to keep it simple and have 1 plant per category. how ever with the water melon and cucs i will be using 2 and calling it one plant cuz i plant in hills of 2 and when they get bigger it is hard to tell witch plant is witch. so if you guys want you can use 2 for those categories..
and you can re enter the fruit off you plant if it was bigger or better then the last one you entered from the same plant. so say i enter a tom and then in 2 weeks i get a bigger one then i can re enter it.
looks like your plants are pretty far ahead of some of ours as well but thats fine. what parts you from?

hope this makes sense, i just got done with a wake n bake

mcpurple said:

i just want to try to keep it simple and have 1 plant per category. how ever with the water melon and cucs i will be using 2 and calling it one plant cuz i plant in hills of 2 and when they get bigger it is hard to tell witch plant is witch. so if you guys want you can use 2 for those categories..
and you can re enter the fruit off you plant if it was bigger or better then the last one you entered from the same plant. so say i enter a tom and then in 2 weeks i get a bigger one then i can re enter it.
looks like your plants are pretty far ahead of some of ours as well but thats fine. what parts you from? hope this makes sense, i just got done with a wake n bake

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ok man, i was finishing a bowl when i was reading this so it took a minute but i think i got it
basically biggest veggie or fruit throughout the season and best looking individual plants of each catergorie right? sounds good man if thats right haha

I live in florida...but i dont grow mj now that that's out of the way, check out my grows in my sig! haha

you guys want to add an herb section cause i got some lemon basil that stinks up my yard haha

Here are the pictures of my plants, I see that everybody is starting to grow now. I gotta have everything harvested by the beginning of July so I started a bit earlier with the grows. All the plants are in pots. The peper is growing indoor under CLF and the tomato and cucumber in the balcony. My first year growing veggies so everything is new and exiting, I love it

Here is the pepper, it has grown the first flower already, is 62 days old and about 40cm (15.7in) tall.



Here is the tomato, is 150 days old, I tried the first tomato yesterday and it taste really good. 70cm tall but I did some lst and cut some tops to keep it smaller due to space restrictions.



And here is the cucumber, 62 days old as the pepper. 55cm tall but it's also growing horizontally due to space restrictions, it started growing the female flowers last week:

very nice lince.
why do have to have it all harvested by july. my grow season isnt half way over in july.
whats parts of the world you from?

Hey purple, thanks, loving the thread

It's not about the weather, it's the same here, the season finishes around September but I'm moving out the flat so gotta harvest everything before I leave.

You've got some nice plants yourself man, seems that you've got quite a few of then right ?

ok i understand now. i havent even bean able to plant outside yet here, should be good to go in 2 weeks though.
and thanks, they did look way better but got a bit cold at night a few weeks back but they all are doing great now.
and ya i got quite a few, to much really. i am trying to sell some for very cheap and if not then i will just give xtras away to a community garden or some one who wants them but cant buy them.