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Post by daylilydude on Apr 25, 2018 3:25:06 GMT -5
These things are... at least to me, one crazy way of growing tomatoes... It was a great big deal when they first came out and I was wanting to get your views of them, and do you use them...
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Post by paulf on Apr 25, 2018 7:28:16 GMT -5
An overpriced novelty that gives a small salad tomato. Misleading advertising that sucks the unknowing in. They may sell one plant to an unwitting customer but only once. The fad seems to be dying out. The plants do grow and they do produce a tomato plant with a few fruits that are small and few in number. A person could use their own seeds I suppose and get a real plant.
Look at me, the cynical one.
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Post by octave1 on Apr 25, 2018 7:36:59 GMT -5
I would not want to water an upside down tomato plant on an almost daily basis. So, no, it's not for me.
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Post by brownrexx on Apr 25, 2018 7:53:12 GMT -5
A fad and waste of money in my opinion.
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Post by september on Apr 25, 2018 8:49:57 GMT -5
I never saw the point to it, and think they look homely with a bare pot above. Maybe if you planted some kind of trailing lobelia on top, or something to drape over and camouflage the pot. But then you'd have more root competition for the poor tomato dangling there.
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Post by spike on Apr 25, 2018 9:19:32 GMT -5
I always thought of them as stupid. But I have no reason to be mad enough at a tomato plant to actually hang it . . .
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Post by ladymarmalade on Apr 25, 2018 11:24:45 GMT -5
I've never been interested in trying it for all the reasons already mentioned.
But one thing I've always wondered is if upside down is a slower way to grow for tomatoes. There are varieties of tomato that get harvested by the plant, and then hung upside down in a barn. The tomatoes stay ripe longer than if they'd simply been picked.
Usually I'm so anxious for those first tomatoes, dragging out the process would literally be that- a drag!
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Post by mgulfcoastguy on Apr 25, 2018 12:06:17 GMT -5
I may have been born into a generation that bought Pet Rocks but I didn’t fall for everything.
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Post by guruofgardens on Apr 25, 2018 18:52:35 GMT -5
I just saw them for sale at the Dollar Store! Still not interested.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Apr 25, 2018 21:05:17 GMT -5
I grew them for many years, until I discovered SIPs. I have a bunch of photos of incredible tomatoes on them, and I'm sure that I've posted some, but they are in photobucket. I would always get more tomatoes from those than the ones in the ground. The ones sold in the stores, however, are too small - 4 gallon down to 2 gallon - and made of fabric, so would probably have to be watered a few times a day! And using these was what got me into drip irrigation - so something good came from that, besides all those tomatoes!
I used 5 and 4 gal buckets; 4 gal were too small for any but cherry tomatoes, but the 5 gal lasted through the summer for most others, without becoming rootbound.
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Post by coppice on Apr 26, 2018 4:44:36 GMT -5
Never used them. That said, watering tomato leaves with soil enriched water, strikes me as a special kind of foolish.
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