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Post by scarfguy on Dec 4, 2023 10:27:29 GMT -5
Glad to hear that everyone has had some success with the Dwarf Awesome.
FYI, Here's the banana toes at 66 days. It's staying under 2 feet and has lots and lots of tomatoes! They are suppose to be a roma type but I don't see them elongating like a roma.
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Post by maskedsonnet on Dec 4, 2023 11:08:14 GMT -5
your plants look loaded up!! That's fantastic, I hope I have good luck with them too!!
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Post by lynnee on Dec 4, 2023 23:28:34 GMT -5
As always, I love your photos, maskedsonnet ! Your plants always look so wonderfully healthy.  Whereabouts is the Dwarf Awesome tomato? Bottom, middle, top? I'm really interested in how the DAs grow and set fruit, because I have two seedlings in Farm12s that I'm hoping to turn into regular producers. One of the DA tomatoes on the Bounty plant just started to change color today. This will be the third from this plant, with a few more to come. |
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Post by lynnee on Dec 4, 2023 23:32:52 GMT -5
Your Bananatoes look fabulous, scarfguy! How large are they? How do they taste?  |
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Post by maskedsonnet on Dec 5, 2023 6:11:58 GMT -5
As always, I love your photos, maskedsonnet ! Your plants always look so wonderfully healthy. Whereabouts is the Dwarf Awesome tomato? Bottom, middle, top? I'm really interested in how the DAs grow and set fruit, because I have two seedlings in Farm12s that I'm hoping to turn into regular producers. One of the DA tomatoes on the Bounty plant just started to change color today. This will be the third from this plant, with a few more to come. It's towards the lower middle of the plant.  |
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Post by scarfguy on Dec 5, 2023 6:47:50 GMT -5
Your Bananatoes look fabulous, scarfguy ! How large are they? How do they taste?
Oh, they aren't ready for harvest yet. The largest ones are about 1 and 1/2 inches long. They are suppose to ripen to a bright yellow. They plant should be very impressive if all goes well. About another month, I'd say.
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Post by maskedsonnet on Jan 4, 2024 11:30:36 GMT -5
Only 4 days in, and it's already been a busy new year!! Finally got a chance to mess with the gardens a bit. The sedum!!! The Lucky Leprechaun tomato: Pixie Striped tomato: The lemon balm and sage: The cucumber:
The fresh bites pepper, with several good-sized peppers on it!! A good harvest!! |
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Post by lynnee on Jan 4, 2024 21:25:54 GMT -5
Your room looks wonderful, maskedsonnet! I like the bungee cords you are using for the cucumber vines. Did you make those up? |
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Post by maskedsonnet on Jan 4, 2024 22:12:02 GMT -5
They actually came with the farms! They're part of the trellis system that AG sells, and they sent 2 of them with every Farm that I bought, so I've got lots. They're really nice for the cucumbers! |
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Post by lynnee on Jan 5, 2024 0:11:21 GMT -5
They actually came with the farms! They're part of the trellis system that AG sells, and they sent 2 of them with every Farm that I bought, so I've got lots. They're really nice for the cucumbers! Maybe I'll order some. All of my Farms came with the magnetic wire cords that the plants hate. They won't grasp them.  |
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Post by maskedsonnet on Jan 5, 2024 9:52:22 GMT -5
Honestly the cucumbers don't really grab these, either. I just drape them over the bungies, and they seem okay with staying there. The tendrils haven't been grabbing at anything this time around, other than its own vines.
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Post by maskedsonnet on Jan 18, 2024 16:32:36 GMT -5
Ended and started up a lot of gardens today!! Some of them were actually ended a couple of weeks ago, I just didn't have time to clean and re-start them, and I only start gardens on feeding days or I'd go insane trying to keep with with different gardens on different feeding schedules. The dwarf awesome died, and only ever gave me 1 tomato. It was a very tasty tomato, but I still felt a bit cheated, so won't try again on that one for a while probably. The cucumber was also starting to look sad, after giving me MANY cucumbers as always, so I went ahead and ended that too. The candy cane pepper also gave me lots of peppers before wilting away to nothing, along with the 2 pot-a-penos. The lemon balm dried up and died too, and smelled AMAZING while I cleaned it up. Saved a bunch of the leaves, since they were already nice and dry for me. In place of all these, I planted: Early flame jalapeno, another candy cane pepper, a chile pequine (those seeds are HELLA old though, probably won't come up. If they don't I'll plant another early flame), a Super bush tomato, Demidov dwarf tomato (free gift with some other dwarf seeds I bought, I know nothing about this variety. I hope it's short), and re-planted the banana toes tomato that never came up (turns out I didn't have the pump wire on that garden plugged all the way in, think I dried it out). I've also decided to start using the smaller gardens for decorative plants, to give myself a little break on maintenance. The sedum in the short farm is DELIGHTFUL, and almost no effort - no trimming or anything needed, just nutrients and water. So the 2 bounties and 1 of the harvests are being used to root some of the babies my spider plant shot out. We'll see if that works!! Otherwise I may look into other succulents to grow in them. The baby spiders:
The sedum!!! The dwarf leprechaun, which is about to start setting tomatoes!! The pixie striped dwarf tomato, not as big as the leprechaun but still looking nice:
The red velvets, still putting out delicious little gems:
And the fresh bites pepper!! I harvested my first peppers today, and they are very tasty!! Also a very fun orange color! |
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Post by maskedsonnet on Jan 18, 2024 16:49:09 GMT -5
Lol forgot to add: I also ended the mini red bell!! It gave me lots of peppers, and they tasted good, but I won't be growing them again. The number of seeds in those little peppers was unbelievable, and made them very annoying to eat.
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Post by pfunnyjoy on Jan 18, 2024 17:48:23 GMT -5
They actually came with the farms! They're part of the trellis system that AG sells, and they sent 2 of them with every Farm that I bought, so I've got lots. They're really nice for the cucumbers! Your cucumbers are so nice looking! I still think a Farm would be difficult for me to manage, but I am a little bit jealous seeing those cucumbers! |
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Post by maskedsonnet on Jan 18, 2024 18:35:13 GMT -5
lynnee has grown cucumbers in a Bounty, I believe. You just have to keep them trained around the trellis! I tend to be very forgetful, so cucumbers are easier in the Farm for me, because even if I come back after a week or more of not tending the gardens it's not much of a fight to tie the vines up. Not sure that'd work as well in a Bounty!
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Post by lynnee on Jan 18, 2024 19:28:49 GMT -5
lynnee has grown cucumbers in a Bounty, I believe. You just have to keep them trained around the trellis! I tend to be very forgetful, so cucumbers are easier in the Farm for me, because even if I come back after a week or more of not tending the gardens it's not much of a fight to tie the vines up. Not sure that'd work as well in a Bounty! Growing cukes in a Bounty is easiest for me, because the main vine is generally willing to go around and around the trellis. Sometimes it just stops growing at the tip, though. In a Farm, my cukes want to produce a gazillion side-shoot vines, and the vines get all tangled. Probably I'm giving them too much nitrogen. Soon I will be trying to manage pea vines in a Farm. At least one of my "Easy Peasy" seeds has germinated in a Bounty. Still waiting for a green shoot.  |
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Post by maskedsonnet on Jan 18, 2024 21:25:10 GMT -5
Ooh, I look forward to seeing how that project goes, I LOVE peas!! The snow peas I tried were very tasty, but way more of a pain to maintain than cukes. I hope your peas behave better!
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Post by maskedsonnet on Feb 12, 2024 19:25:11 GMT -5
Hello fellow AGers!!! Back from a little bit of a break, work continues to send me scurrying all over!! Makes me gladder and gladder that I came up with a home-brew AeroVoir with bigger capacity!!!
Tomatoes are up, to varying degrees!!
Super Bush:
Demidov
Leprechaun, has several green tomatoes on it!!
Pixie, has some blooms!
Banana toes came up on the second try, once I got the pump issue fixed (dummy me forgot to plug it in lol)!!
Peppers are also up!!
Early flame jalapeno
Candy Cane
Pequins!!! Old as the seeds are MULTIPLE seedlings came up, I had to thin them!!
The sedum bloomed!! The little pink flowers are soooo pretty!!
Latest trip I took was a little over-nighter to Belen, for a meeting. The meeting didn't actually start until 0900 the day after I arrived, so I got up early and went for a drive!! Got to see the sunrise hit a mountain in a really cool way
And found some cool rocks, the reason I went driving to the middle of no where in the first place!! I like to tumble polish rocks. Just getting into the hobby, going to start making jewelry out of it. Had to be very careful not to trip and show up to the meeting covered in dirt!!
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Post by scarfguy on Feb 12, 2024 19:56:43 GMT -5
Very cool pics! 
With all those tomato plants you'll be bottling some pasta sauce soon!
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Post by maskedsonnet on Mar 22, 2024 20:35:17 GMT -5
Today I ended a bunch of gardens. I've been out of town too much, even with the reservoirs, and too busy when I AM home to take care of all of them. I've still got a couple going, but the majority have been emptied and scrubbed for easy starts when I have more time. I will say, the Dwarf Leprechaun tomato produces LOTS. It's not quite a full-sized slicing tomato, but they're about the size of roma tomatoes and very tasty. There were lots of green tomatoes to go with what I harvested before I ended the plant.
The only farm I left running was the pequin, because the seeds I used were several years old and I was frankly amazed that they came up at all. I'm hoping I can at least take care of it long enough to get some more seeds, and lots of peppers!!
The other machines I've still got running are the 2 bounties and the harvest slim, all with spider plants that I rooted in them.
Hopefully in a few months I'll be traveling less for work, and less BUSY with work while I'm home, and can start them all back up again!! The early flame jalapeno was LOVELY and had lots of blooms on it before a long trip ran it out of water and killed it. I'm hoping to try that and the Leprechaun tomatoes again first when I start back up!!
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