Farm XL Toms 12/30/20

[Jay]

Starting my Black Cherry and Sun Gold tomatoes in one side of the Farm XL. I had six AG cherries in this for awhile, two didn't thrive and the last four were terminated a few days ago.

I've tried these in the AG before, the sprouted and grew, but they overwhelmed the other things I  had in the AG. They are alone and unafraid now.

3 seeds in each of two AG sponges
 Sun Gold Hybrid (Burpee Seeds)
 Heirloom Black Cherry (Burpee Seeds)

4ml of FloraMicro, FloraGreen and FloraBio
1ml peroxide

[Jay]

Three seeds per pod with last spring's seeds, this isn't a bad germination rate!

What say, another week and thin?

[ERR0R1755]

It's up to you, but personally I'd recommend thinning at this stage if you want to pull out the seedlings rather than cutting at the base. I let some seedlings grow a bit further and tried pulling them out at that point, that was a big mess

[maskedsonnet]

I usually wait until the seedlings are about 3-4 inches tall and thin them by cutting the weakest-looking ones at the very base. I think that gives them plenty of time to get good and established and you can pick and choose which plants look healthiest.

[Jay]

Fed 20ml AG Nutes and 10ml Cal Mag

Before:




After (they look shell shocked, what happened!):

[Shawn]

From what I learned you should not add any supplements like calimag until after 30 days.  Also might have been too much.  You can try doing an R&R. 

It looks like you trimmed the extras out of each pod too?

[Jay]

I did trim them I forgot to mention that. They look shell shocked that their pod mates are gone.

[Sher]

Jan 16, 2021 7:43:05 GMT -5 Jay said:

I did trim them I forgot to mention that. They look shell shocked that their pod mates are gone.

Just give them two weeks and watch how they rebound.

[Jay]

Moving right along!

About time to top prune?

[Sher]

Those are both indeterminate varieties, aren't they, Jay?

I am very interested in seeing how they do in the Farm.

[Jay]

They are indeterminate. I'll have to keep an eye on them. I terminated a bubbler bucket version that had 9 foot long vines!

[Sher]

Nine feet!  Well, I have never tried the Black Cherry. But if they are as good as the Sun Gold, it will be worth watching them climb the walls!

[Jay]

These bounced back from the thinning.

I should have F&F'd today but I'm unbelievably busy... I'll do it at the next feeding (said to remind myself)

AG nutes 24ml, Cal-mag 12ml

Any recommendations on pruning? I'm thinking get them back in the boundary of the unit, leave suckers and such for now?

[Jay]

Had to trim these monsters up. One bit me! ;-)

Starting to get flowers. These are about 3 days out from a flush/fill/feed.

[ry]

Feb 9, 2021 16:02:17 GMT -5 Jay said:

Had to trim these monsters up. One bit me! ;-)

Starting to get flowers. These are about 3 days out from a flush/fill/feed.

Jay did you end up top-pruning or not? I can’t seem to find any advice on top-pruning per the AG instructions if you are growing in an XL unit, but I also have 4-5 branches on some AG tomatoes in a 12XL right now and have to decide as well; hoping to learn from what you did!

[Shawn]

Mar 14, 2021 12:09:04 GMT -5 ry said:

Jay did you end up top-pruning or not? I can’t seem to find any advice on top-pruning per the AG instructions if you are growing in an XL unit, but I also have 4-5 branches on some AG tomatoes in a 12XL right now and have to decide as well; hoping to learn from what you did!

ry,  You may find some information here

[Jay]

ry I did top prune, still in the flowering stage.