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Calling SMB veg growers

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Wild Card said:
Same, I was worried about the poor weather and drab, dank conditions making them too leggy. However, now I'm worried about them being too late.

Suppose I should have bought an established seedling but I like growing from seed.
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Me too. Though if it looks like my seedlings are struggling then I do often get a couple of plants at my local garden centre. I have a pretty good family run one near me, and they produce a lot in their own nurseries. It is a big even around here the day they open their greenhouses. Early in the year they are closed to sales, growing only.
 

DaveH said:
Me too. Though if it looks like my seedlings are struggling then I do often get a couple of plants at my local garden centre. I have a pretty good family run one near me, and they produce a lot in their own nurseries. It is a big even around here the day they open their greenhouses. Early in the year they are closed to sales, growing only.
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I like growing from seed, but I find the weather too unreliable for stuff like peppers and chillis.
Haven't got a heated gh so I just buy young plants now. Lifes too short to get too precious over it imo.
 
Any tomato experts on here?

Normally when I grow them everything goes like clockwork, however this time I'm getting truss' (sp?) on the plant, it seems way too early and the plant seems way too small to be ready to fruit.

Anyone experienced this before' can it be the shit weather?

Should I take of the truss or leave it. They are cherry sun golds if it helps.
 
Wild Card said:
Any tomato experts on here?

Normally when I grow them everything goes like clockwork, however this time I'm getting truss' (sp?) on the plant, it seems way too early and the plant seems way too small to be ready to fruit.

Anyone experienced this before' can it be the shit weather?

Should I take of the truss or leave it. They are cherry sun golds if it helps.
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Ive grown tomatoes for over 40yrs. You shouldnt be getting trusses until the plant is around a foot tall, and even then I nip the first one off.

You should nip this one off, and probably the next one. Sungold cherry produce really long trusses and if you leave the first ones on the fruit will be likely to touch the soil.
 
socrates said:
Ive grown tomatoes for over 40yrs. You shouldnt be getting trusses until the plant is around a foot tall, and even then I nip the first one off.

You should nip this one off, and probably the next one. Sungold cherry produce really long trusses and if you leave the first ones on the fruit will be likely to touch the soil.
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Thanks, its probably is a foot tall but I bury a bit of the stem each time I repot to encourage a bigger root system. If the truss is long it would potentially touch the soil. I normally plant from seen but saw these almost dead in b n q and couldn't resist the challenge of getting them going again for £1.

I guess I have no idea when the seed was sown. Maybe it is always this early but the weather is better so I haven't noticed as much?

Will nip it off for now. Still plenty of time left in the season. Thanks again.
 
Wild Card said:
Thanks, its probably is a foot tall but I bury a bit of the stem each time I repot to encourage a bigger root system. If the truss is long it would potentially touch the soil. I normally plant from seen but saw these almost dead in b n q and couldn't resist the challenge of getting them going again for £1.

I guess I have no idea when the seed was sown. Maybe it is always this early but the weather is better so I haven't noticed as much?

Will nip it off for now. Still plenty of time left in the season. Thanks again.
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B n Q is the last place on earth I would buy tomato plants from, same with supermarkets. They are always leggy and week and usually dried out. I assume youre going to plant in large pots? If so plant them deep, up to the first leaves.
 
socrates said:
B n Q is the last place on earth I would buy tomato plants from, same with supermarkets. They are always leggy and week and usually dried out. I assume youre going to plant in large pots? If so plant them deep, up to the first leaves.
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Yeah, I wasn't planning to, there was just a few sorry looking ones, dried out and starting to wither. I have repotted then twice now, each time burying the stem a bit more to encourage root growth. With the ultimate goal to have them in large grow bags. They have been growing well since I took them home, just never seen (or noticed) trusses this early.
 
My corn is coming on a treat, do you think they’re safe to plant into its final position? Or would you hang on? I’ve got 25/30 viable plants that I’m putting into a grid.
 
Planted mine last weekend. Doing the usual

cherry tomato
Peppers
Jalapeños
Weed (allowed 12 now because the missus eldest is now an adult)

Trying zucchini, can’t even get the seeds to sprout yet ffs
 
gasman said:
My corn is coming on a treat, do you think they’re safe to plant into its final position? Or would you hang on? I’ve got 25/30 viable plants that I’m putting into a grid.
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Mine has not germinated yet :( Sometimes I soak the seeds but didn't this year. It has been 3-4 weeks so I'm thinking failure.

It happened a few years ago too and for the hell of it, I picked up some new seeds in B&Q thinking lost nowt. I actually had a good crop off those. I might do the same again, where as I usually avoid B&Q for seeds.
 
Just realised my mistake - Bought a tray of seedlings from someone local on facebook - I bought a few different varieties of tomatoes thinking it would be canny to see how they all turn out.

But they're not labelled, so I don't know which is which - and I imagine some will be determinant and some wont be. So I won't know which ones to prune! Will it be obvious as they grow?
 
PTR said:
Just realised my mistake - Bought a tray of seedlings from someone local on facebook - I bought a few different varieties of tomatoes thinking it would be canny to see how they all turn out.

But they're not labelled, so I don't know which is which - and I imagine some will be determinant and some wont be. So I won't know which ones to prune! Will it be obvious as they grow?
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Depends if they are bush or cordon marra.
You should be able to tell pretty early on with how tall they grow.
Cordons will grow taller then the bush varieties quickly.
 
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finally got everything I want planted in the greenhouse done, except 2 jalapenos which ill do tomorrow.
first pic is cucumbers, cucamelons up against the chicken wire and a red pepper and chocolate pepper down the bottom.
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below is a few diff types of tomatoes. jalapeno's will go down the bottom, toms are a bit small,dunno wtf happened to them...
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The turnips and pak choi have all popped in my raised beds, just need thinning out now!


think i better clean the glass!, neglected a bit whilst I was hospitalised!

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Planning on getting my onion sets and shallot sets in this weekend. Going to try and get as much of the allotment sorted ready for when the weather turns!
 
My chilli peppers are terrible. I grow from seed and they were planted end of January. They are in a South facing bay window but are just stuck, literally only 1 inch tall. I'm sure it's because there's been hardly any sunny days.
 
Wilfy said:
Planning on getting my onion sets and shallot sets in this weekend. Going to try and get as much of the allotment sorted ready for when the weather turns!
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The Mrs planted ours a couple of weeks back, she done sbout 200 and with the bit good weather we’ve just had down here I noticed they have all started sprouting a little, shame we are back to pissing down rain again…

How you liking the allotment btw? You old ting the whole place out aye?
 
Az* said:
The Mrs planted ours a couple of weeks back, she done sbout 200 and with the bit good weather we’ve just had down here I noticed they have all started sprouting a little, shame we are back to pissing down rain again…

How you liking the allotment btw? You old ting the whole place out aye?
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Loving it, the weather hasn’t helped with getting work done. They’ve put the first inspection back a month because of it. It’s bloody hard work mind!
 
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