Slicing Tomatoes (8/4/23)

[LoveSalads]

Paul Robeson slicers  still going strong. Was waiting for the last 4 to ripen and made the huge mistake of cutting the rest of the plants back. Uffffff All the foliage grew back before the toms changed. Have since harvest and enjoyed 2 more. Still waiting on 3 more at least before I terminate.  Maybe I will just transplant it to the garden. Might be 2 hard to remove we shall see. 


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Since then I started a new slicer in a bounty and then moved it to a bucket. Cherokee Purple. It is now 34 days old and has its first flowers forming.


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Huge growth since moving it. No shock from the transplant. I usually get a day of droopy but I think I saved most of the tap root while extracting it.

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Switched from an AG 45w light panel to a 100w spider farmer Led.

[scarfguy]

Nice looking custom grow bucket, LoveSalads!   

I like to see AG Addicts free themselves from the confines of the commercial product and get creative.

Once you devise a method to suspend your lighting, you have a lot more options.  You are no longer confined to the height limitations and you have a plethora of powerful lighting options available.

[swimmom500]

Mar 12, 2024 20:36:53 GMT -5 LoveSalads said:

Paul Robeson slicers  still going strong. Was waiting for the last 4 to ripen and made the huge mistake of cutting the rest of the plants back. Uffffff All the foliage grew back before the toms changed. Have since harvest and enjoyed 2 more. Still waiting on 3 more at least before I terminate.  Maybe I will just transplant it to the garden. Might be 2 hard to remove we shall see. 


20240223_160056 


20240312_114239 


Since then I started a new slicer in a bounty and then moved it to a bucket. Cherokee Purple. It is now 34 days old and has its first flowers forming.


20240303_105549 

Huge growth since moving it. No shock from the transplant. I usually get a day of droopy but I think I saved most of the tap root while extracting it.

20240312_115151 by

Switched from an AG 45w light panel to a 100w spider farmer Led.

Interesting setup. Is you light attached to pvc pipe? Also like the pot. Is this soil with a self watering system or is it a hydroponic setup?

[scarfguy]

This is another attempt at a good slicing tomato.  This is a yellow tomato called "summertime gold". It comes from the Australian Dwarf tomato project that produced the "dwarf awesome" tomato.

So far, it is showing the same stalky thick growth pattern exhibited by the dwarf awesome.  The first flowers also are double flowers like the dwarf awesome.  It is yet to be determined if the plant will be more productive than the dwarf awesome.

[LoveSalads]

Mar 13, 2024 4:57:29 GMT -5 swimmom500 said:

Mar 12, 2024 20:36:53 GMT -5 LoveSalads said:

Paul Robeson slicers  still going strong. Was waiting for the last 4 to ripen and made the huge mistake of cutting the rest of the plants back. Uffffff All the foliage grew back before the toms changed. Have since harvest and enjoyed 2 more. Still waiting on 3 more at least before I terminate.  Maybe I will just transplant it to the garden. Might be 2 hard to remove we shall see. 


20240223_160056 


20240312_114239 


Since then I started a new slicer in a bounty and then moved it to a bucket. Cherokee Purple. It is now 34 days old and has its first flowers forming.


20240303_105549 

Huge growth since moving it. No shock from the transplant. I usually get a day of droopy but I think I saved most of the tap root while extracting it.

20240312_115151 by

Switched from an AG 45w light panel to a 100w spider farmer Led.

Interesting setup. Is you light attached to pvc pipe? Also like the pot. Is this soil with a self watering system or is it a hydroponic setup?

That is a 3x3x6 foot tall tent frame with a shower curtain so I can still get to the dresser if need be. The pvc pipes sticking out of the dwc(deep Water culture) bucket are just for support for the tomato plant. The bucket is water ,nutes and, expanded clay pellets about the size of marbles. So half the bucket are the round pellets and the other half separated by a half bucket are water and nutes. The buckets nest into each other. It uses an air hose from a fish pump to raise the water from the bottom and distribute over the top via a round plastic ring with holes in it. The light is just on a rachet rope thingy that u can lock at any height. The advantage is no height limit and,  the root ball can get huge meaning the plant can basically get full size. Close to it anyway.

[LoveSalads]

Mar 13, 2024 11:02:34 GMT -5 scarfguy said:

This is another attempt at a good slicing tomato.  This is a yellow tomato called "summertime gold". It comes from the Australian Dwarf tomato project that produced the "dwarf awesome" tomato.

So far, it is showing the same stalky thick growth pattern exhibited by the dwarf awesome.  The first flowers also are double flowers like the dwarf awesome.  It is yet to be determined if the plant will be more productive than the dwarf awesome.

Super healthy looking plants, very nice. I am almost resigned to cutting cherry  toms in half for my BLT's . But is so much nicer with a slicer. 

[lisatnp]

Very nice looking tom's.

Do you guys propagate your plants?

i did on my cherry tom's and they took off great.

[scarfguy]

Mar 14, 2024 15:55:40 GMT -5 lisatnp said:

Very nice looking tom's.

Do you guys propagate your plants?

i did on my cherry tom's and they took off great.

Hmmm... I've never thought about propagating plants from cuttings.  

Do you start them in a glass of water or put them directly into an AG sponge?

[LoveSalads]

Mar 14, 2024 15:55:40 GMT -5 lisatnp said:

Very nice looking tom's.

Do you guys propagate your plants?

i did on my cherry tom's and they took off great.

I have not tried to propagate. They grow so fast in AG's I just never thought about it.

[lisatnp]

i put in water till i seen some roots

then put in pod

( it seemed to cut off like 30 days of growing for mine)

[LoveSalads]

Mar 15, 2024 11:33:34 GMT -5 lisatnp said:

i put in water till i seen some roots

then put in pod

( it seemed to cut off like 30 days of growing for mine)

Nice

[LoveSalads]

Mar 12, 2024 20:36:53 GMT -5 LoveSalads said:

Paul Robeson slicers  still going strong. Was waiting for the last 4 to ripen and made the huge mistake of cutting the rest of the plants back. Uffffff All the foliage grew back before the toms changed. Have since harvest and enjoyed 2 more. Still waiting on 3 more at least before I terminate.  Maybe I will just transplant it to the garden. Might be 2 hard to remove we shall see. 


20240223_160056 


20240312_114239 


Since then I started a new slicer in a bounty and then moved it to a bucket. Cherokee Purple. It is now 34 days old and has its first flowers forming.


20240303_105549 

Huge growth since moving it. No shock from the transplant. I usually get a day of droopy but I think I saved most of the tap root while extracting it.

20240312_115151 by

Switched from an AG 45w light panel to a 100w spider farmer Led.

Rut Ro. I guess after 4.5 years a drip can be expected (DWC bucket). This happened today immediately after the first R n R. You turn the sight tube sideways to drain the bucket. Guess the rubber didn't like the move so much.   Being a hexagon the nesting buckets do not separate well so, top draining not possible. I guess if the drip persists I will do an early R n R and put some vaseline
around it. Well my AG.s have never leaked there is that

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Sorry about the interruption now back to slicing tomato's  


   

[scarfguy]

Hey! Where is everybody?  It's been rather quiet here this week...

UPDATE:

This is the "summertime gold" tomato from the Australian dwarf tomato project.  I'm gonna let it grow awhile longer but I don't think it will be a good candidate for an AG slicer.

As with the other varieties from this project, the fruit seems to be sparse.  The first few flowers wilted. I do have a couple of clusters of new flowers at the top of the plant. No fruit yet.

It was described as growing 3-4 feet.  I'm already at 38 inches from the grow deck.  I have the room to go to 4 feet or so. 

I just think these plants aren't happy until they can get to 4 or 5 feet.  

That is a bit too much for an Aerogarden.

[LoveSalads]

I have to agree with @scarfguy . My Cherokee Purple has outgrown the 100w light I gave it. It is at least 3 foot wide as the frame for that tent is 3x3x6 . I refuse to mount the light to the ceiling so at the frame top 6 feet light will be like 5 feet I will start pruning. There are at least a dozen flowers on the plant and as scarfguy's did, the bottom flowers dried up.  Some of those might turn into fruit but I am not holding my breath for those bottom flowers. 


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Anyway onward we go ,still planning for the seed starting. Germinating 3 different kinds of broccoli now. Next is various peppers.  

[LoveSalads]

And the last 2 Pauls slicers are ready anytime I am. Then I think is time to terminate. I lost count at a dozen could be a few more so descent amount for a slicer and, Very good tasting.


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[scarfguy]

UPDATE:

Terminated the "summertime gold" today (as shown above).

It was a beautiful plant but just didn't produce anything.  When I cut it down, I found about a dozen flowers but no developing fruit. I don't know if it needed a particular pollinator or if it just wasn't mature enough and wanted to grow another 2 or 3 feet.

Oh well... sometimes ya win and sometimes ya lose.  Time to move on.

[lynnee]

Sometimes tomato plants just don't want to set fruit. My Paul Robeson was just like your Summertime Gold, scarfguy--yet LoveSalads grew some beautiful Robesons in one of his AGs!

[LoveSalads]

Update........

Cherokee purple plant is now a tree. At 56 days young and no fruit that I see is a bummer. I have maybe 20 flowers at various stages of drying up. I am giving it 2 more weeks to set some toms otherwise, compost here we come. I have had to cut it back away from the light ,what a monster.


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[blueoak]

The Czech Bush tomato is said to be a highly productive dwarf slicer with good flavor. jandlgardens.com/xencart/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1_8&products_id=582&zenid=sl5b64jild2jccn24524gpk553
Other sources say it tops out at 30 to 36 inches. I only have Harvest XLs, so I won't be trying it, but it sounds promising.

[lynnee]

Sept 18, 2024 5:53:17 GMT -5 blueoak said:

The Czech Bush tomato is said to be a highly productive dwarf slicer with good flavor. jandlgardens.com/xencart/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1_8&products_id=582&zenid=sl5b64jild2jccn24524gpk553
Other sources say it tops out at 30 to 36 inches. I only have Harvest XLs, so I won't be trying it, but it sounds promising.

That definitely sounds worthy of a try! My current Homeslice tomato has lots of green tomatoes on it, but none seem near to ripening. One Homeslice is all that really fits in a Farm 12XL. I think the same would be true of the Czech Bush variety.