By gisette
Outdoor Tomatoes 2011
Submitted on Sat, 2011/04/23 - 8:53pm
Last updated on Mon, 2011/10/31 - 11:43pm
Harvest:
early indoor/outdoor jetstar tomato: 3 (first 6/14)
juliet: 460 (first 7/8 - should have waited another 1-2 days)
early girl: 47 (first 7/17) - terminated 10/22
bucks county: 35 (first 7/18)
supertasty: 46 (first 7/26)
Sun, 2011/04/24 - 7:36pm
#2
No ideas on my dead tomato, huh?
Mon, 2011/04/25 - 3:50am
#3
Have a look here Gisette, could be a few things.
By looking at all the problems with tomatoes, it's a wonder we ever grow them!
Mon, 2011/04/25 - 11:56am
#4
Thanks, Peat. Hmm. Well, maybe I should toss the remaining plant instead of trying to revive it from rooting, huh? Too many contagious illnesses it could be.
Maybe I should stick to hybrids. 
Sat, 2011/04/30 - 8:09pm
#5
Decided yet again to postpone planting out tomato seedlings. I could keep them alive now, but they'll grow faster indoors. Picked up a Juliet grape tomato locally for 80 cents to replace the dead cherokee purple. Next week at least two go into a growbox... Probably.
Mon, 2011/05/02 - 2:04pm
#6
Gisette,
I'd go ahead and toss it. Sometimes you just get a sickly plant.
Beth
Sat, 2011/05/07 - 7:21pm
#7
Still pretty chilly, but nothing below 40 in the forecast, and generally in the 60's for daytime high... They won't die. Put out the growbox tomatoes today.
Sat, 2011/05/14 - 4:36pm
#8
It was a good choice to put them out last weekend - might have gotten away with it a week earlier, but probably just right. Two of these (bucks and juliet) have buds.
Sun, 2011/05/22 - 9:02pm
#9
Sun, 2011/05/29 - 12:36pm
#10
It's suddenly hot - as of Tuesday. (Well, hot for CT - in the 70's days, 60's nights.) All tomatoes very happy. The elder jet star tomato is joining this topic from my early indoor/outdoor topic.
As of today, all tomatoes in bloom. The juliet (grape/saladette tomatoes) is the only younger plant that's set a fruit yet. Seems like the jet star elder 3 fruit should ripen any day now, but they only set about 5 weeks ago.
We shall see how my hand-lashed bamboo tomato cage works out. 
Wish me luck...
What killed this tomato seedling - anybody know?
Alas, this was my cherokee purple, aged 4 weeks. From nudging it to look, and taking pictures, that wasp-waist stem snapped, more like a broken matchstick than a vine. I still have the top of the seedling for now, cut for rooting, in a bud vase with seed-starting nutes. But I'm not sure I want to plant it, in case that's fusarium. And it's not going to make it to spring planting anyway, now - the growbox slot will get assigned something else. I could put it in a pot, but it's a beefsteak type, isn't it? Seems like it would be too big for my self-watering pots. Oh, well.
Not having much luck with my tomato-starting this year.
The cherokee purple, an early girl, and a tomande were seeded 4 weeks ago - but only the cherokee germinated. The other two were supposed to go outside this weekend in cloches, per my plans. So earliest tomato planting delayed at least 2 weeks. Never did get a tomande to germinate - seed didn't survive the winter, I guess.