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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Feb 19, 2018 20:58:42 GMT -5
The tomato circled in Red is growing at a much slower pace than the others. The tomato in question is called "Frosty Pink Plum" I acquired this about 10 years ago and I am just now trying to grow it out. I thought it's growth pattern was slow, so I replanted. Those are the 2 on the bottom. As you can see, they are growing at the same slow pace. Does anyone have a clue as to why?
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Post by ladymarmalade on Feb 19, 2018 21:32:20 GMT -5
Any info on the seed other than the name? A quick internet search and trip thru Tatiana's shows no results for a tomato of that name.
It could simply be the age of the seed. But I'm wondering if it was saved from a hybrid. That would make the seed wonky in the first place- where you have no idea what you'll actually get.
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Feb 19, 2018 22:03:01 GMT -5
ladymarmalade, I guess seed age could be a factor, but most of my seed is old and none of the other varieties are doing this. It's happening on 2 separate plantings of the same tomato. It suppose it could also be a growout of a hybrid as you suggested. The name is all I have to go on and like you, I can't find a tomato by that name.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Feb 19, 2018 22:51:04 GMT -5
The cotyledons seem really long and narrow, too. The true leaves look like tomato leaves, at least as best I can tell with them so small.
How long have they been in the peat pellets? Peat pellets don't have a lot of nutrients in them. Maybe it is just the lighting in the picture, but the cotyledons on the older Frosty Pink Plum seedlings look kind of pale and yellowish. Maybe try a dilute - no more than half-strength - liquid fertilizer with every watering to see if you can give them a boost? (Organic or synthetic; whatever you ordinarily use.) Or, even though they are tiny, go ahead and pot them up into good potting mix. Maybe that will perk them up?
By the way, I couldn't find any information on this tomato, either.
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Feb 19, 2018 22:56:21 GMT -5
Laura_in_FL, Will do. I hope they make it, would be cool to see what kind of tomato they make.
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Post by september on Feb 20, 2018 0:46:18 GMT -5
You've got me really curious to see what may grow out there! The tinniest seedlings I've had in the past, ended up being the tiny current types with a wild tomato background. Probably not the same, but there is a listing in Tania's dbase for just plain Pink Plum, but not much info on that one either. tatianastomatobase.com/wiki/Pink_Plum I suppose Frosted Pink Plum could possibly be someone's version of that, but no way to know unless your seed source would know something.
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Feb 25, 2018 19:52:53 GMT -5
Here is updated picture. They were both planted same time and as you can see, the one on the right is tiny! I gave it s very diluted fertilizer, but its growing at its own slow pace. Laura_in_FL, I thought you might like this.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Feb 26, 2018 13:24:37 GMT -5
Wow, that tiny seedling sure hasn't made much progress in a week. The color looks better, though. Maybe it will do better now that it has some true leaves. So, all of the Frosty Pink Plum seedlings tiny, right? The bigger plant on the left is a different variety, correct? If all of the Frosty Pink Plum seedlings are tiny, I don't know what else to do but keep on trying to encourage them to grow. Get them out of the peat and into a good potting soil sooner rather than later. (Peat pellets are good for starting seeds, but I have never had anything but trouble if I keep seedlings in peat pellets for more than a couple of weeks.) If your potting soil doesn't have fertilizer in it, mix some good fertilizer in, or continue with liquid feedings. With that slow growth, it's going to be really late getting to blooming size, though. I started to say that at least you have a long growing season, but don't you have trouble with tomatoes burning up in the summer heat in Texas? If you really want to save that variety, you might have to baby it through the summer and hope to get fruit in the fall. Good luck!
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Feb 26, 2018 13:51:04 GMT -5
Laura_in_FL, Yes the one on the left is completely different variety. I was just showing it for comparison. I should have everything transplanted by the end of this week. The sun stops mine from blooming, but I just leave them alone and come September, I'll have a second flush. Depending on if I get an early or late frost tells the tale how many ripe ones I'll get. Most of the time, I'll get my first frost around Turkey day, but occasionally earlier. I sowed several and I may put one in a 5 gal pot, so I can move it around.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Feb 26, 2018 13:56:36 GMT -5
Cool. With leaf diseases being so bad here, I have trouble keeping tomato plants alive in July and August, so I don't try anymore. I just plant fresh transplants in late August and early September. I'm glad to hear that you can keep your plants alive all summer and take advantage of the fall season.
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Post by brownrexx on Feb 26, 2018 18:39:15 GMT -5
I am going to try a second planting of a couple tomato plants this year for the first time.
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Feb 26, 2018 19:11:31 GMT -5
Laura_in_FL, I've been lucky keeping plants alive, but those early frosts bite me in the ____s. This happened one year.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Feb 27, 2018 0:05:06 GMT -5
That would have been a lot of picalili!
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Post by aqua on Feb 27, 2018 8:00:10 GMT -5
september, you said exactly what I was thinking, how the smaller plants bear smaller currant-sized tomatoes. Now, that doesn't seem true with my Chocolate Cherries, or the Jaspers, but the Everglades tomato is a tiny little thing! Everything else will be a foot tall, and little Everglades is still only three inches tall. But OH they are so much fun to harvest and share! hairymooseknuckles, I am speechless. Well heck let me try to force something out- HOLY COW look at all those tomatoes! you must've been so mad about having to pick them. It happened to me once but I only ended up with forty lbs and I picked them around midnight with a flashlight, but OH I was so mad!! But LOOK at all those green tomatoes!! What in the name of sweet baby carrots did you DO with all of them? I wrapped half of mine in newspaper, gave half to a friend who made relish and shared half of the product with me. What did you do with yours?
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Feb 27, 2018 11:47:09 GMT -5
Hopefully some of those big ones ended up as fried green tomatoes. Yumm! But I'm curious, too - what did you do with so many green tomatoes? I can see that a number of them were blushing so you could have just let them ripen in the house. And I'm sure that a lot of the big ones were mature enough to ripen eventually, too. That still left you with a lot of greenies.
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Feb 27, 2018 12:23:15 GMT -5
Laura_in_FL, We did fry a few, wrapped some in newspaper, gave away some and some were put in the compost.
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Post by spike on Feb 27, 2018 20:44:35 GMT -5
Every time I see the title of this thread I get the dang Ghost Busters theme song in my head >,<
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Feb 27, 2018 23:44:16 GMT -5
Every time I see the title of this thread I get the dang Ghost Busters theme song in my head >,< spike,Who ya gonna call?
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