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Post by mygggeneration on Mar 2, 2017 14:27:30 GMT -5
I am revisiting this line as I found some seed in my stash. I started about 20 seeds of either F-3 or F-4 seed on 3-16-2016. I actually have some crosses in mind for this variety as I am sure other breeders have made their selections from this line already. I am not the best at seeing selections afar off from the initial cross. That being said I let those who are good at that do their thing and I look for more obscure selections. But accolades must be given to the original breeder as he did all the work. I am just building on the foundation that he laid. Thank you Bill.
I got pretty sick in 2016; however, I managed to get one plant of Pink Shekel, RL, to fruition. But I got a Red 1 lb. 2 oz. Oxheart from it on 9-11-2016 at my buddy's horse farm garden plot. I did save seed from this one fruit. I have about 10-15 seeds from my original batch and plan to start a few more and make other selections this year... health and Lord willing. But often times I seem to start way more plants than I can take care of in my condition. If I were "normal" then I could easily take care of 500-1,000 plants but that is not the case so sometimes I get my seedlings in the ground and they get no care after that because it requires physical labor that I am not able to do. Normally I can pull weeds as they are just starting to show because it is easy and all I have to do is take a small stool to sit on. But it takes me 10 times [plus] as long to do the same amount of work as a normal, healthy person can do. I think super-disease resistance and tolerance to [sometimes] dry conditions are paramount to older people, and sick people, because they need to plant and forget, until harvest time with an absolute minimum of care. Let me see if I can find a picture.
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Post by mygggeneration on Mar 2, 2017 14:06:37 GMT -5
I also have a 10 x 20 greenhouse. Those "little electric heaters" are not sufficient to keep the tomatoes from freezing... BUT only if the temperature gets well below freezing. If it hovers around 32 degrees then the heater will be "just" enough depending on your greenhouse's insulating properties.
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Post by mygggeneration on Mar 2, 2017 13:56:03 GMT -5
I am breaking out some Kozula seed from this batch. I will start with 132 because I got an oblong GWR with Pink bicolor that I thought was promising at the time. I wanted to name a saladette after my aunt Joyce but health problems have plagued me over these last years so I could not continue with these projects. I would only get one year of progress and have to stop. Now,in 2017, I will attempt to grow a few Kozula selections from back then when we first started these.
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Post by mygggeneration on Jun 10, 2016 16:36:36 GMT -5
Yup
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Post by mygggeneration on Mar 31, 2016 23:35:27 GMT -5
I think I may have discovered a bee cross of either Casey's Pure Yellow x Indigo Apple or Grandpa Willie x Indigo Apple. Both were on either side of Indigo Apple and I have two Potato Leaf seedlings [in 2016] from a big Red heartish tomato I got in 2015 from one Indigo Apple plant. The other Indigo Apple plant was true to what I got from Brad Gates at Wild Boar Farms. I also got a wispy-leaf seedling. Not sure where a heart or oxheart got mixed in there. It is also possible that a bee cross happened at Wild Boar Farms; but I suspect it happened at my family farm; Frost Farms in Fulton, Michigan. I think I know what crossed to it but I can't mention the name at this time because it was a secret cross given to me to grow out at that time. It is still in the works.
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Post by mygggeneration on Mar 19, 2016 1:44:44 GMT -5
There is a guy named ContainerTed who does this.
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Post by mygggeneration on Mar 16, 2016 23:47:24 GMT -5
Could we get a picture of Prisoner 007 please? I gotta' see what he looks like.
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Post by mygggeneration on Mar 16, 2016 23:41:37 GMT -5
I am revisiting this line as I found some seed in my stash. I started about 20 seeds of either F-3 or F-4 seed on 3-16-2016. I actually have some crosses in mind for this variety as I am sure other breeders have made their selections from this line already. I am not the best at seeing selections afar off from the initial cross. That being said I let those who are good at that do their thing and I look for more obscure selections. But accolades must be given to the original breeder as he did all the work. I am just building on the foundation that he laid. Thank you Bill.
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Post by mygggeneration on Feb 3, 2016 20:08:38 GMT -5
You are over-watering them. You water them, let the soil almost dry before you water them again. That amount of light should be okay until they develop true leaves and need a bit more.
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Post by mygggeneration on Feb 3, 2016 20:03:50 GMT -5
Very nice k.
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Post by mygggeneration on Feb 3, 2016 20:00:11 GMT -5
Hello everybody,
I have been growing tomatoes for about 10 years. Currently I am only able to grow about 30 plants at my house in the township , and probably 10-20 more across the street at the neighbor's. My two uncles just got done splitting up our family farms so I am unsure if I will have a space to grow as many tomato plants as I can handle at either one's farm. I have been sick with IBS and celiac disease for the last 13-14 years and it severely hampers what I can do. But I press on and do what I can. I put up a greenhouse last year after it sat in our garage for over a year. It is a 10 x 20 that my mother got me at hoophouse dot com for about $500-$600. I got another $100 plus dollars into the wood for the ends and such and had the kids across the street help me put it up. Plants grow at least twice a good as outside [it]. I have over 1,000 varieties of tomato seed with more added every year. You can never have enough right? I am glad to be here and hope you guys are as passionate about tomatoes as I am.
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