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TCH

TCH

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Laughing Grass said:
You let your mothers get a lot bigger than I do. I'll keep these for about six weeks then clone them down so I keep them small until needed.
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The plan is to salvage the moms I have left and then take better care of them. Ultimately, I'd like to get them repotted, nursed back to great health, and then start topping and training into short bushes with lots of clones. Ideally,they will stay as small as they can while still having a little cushion on having to feed and water. That's the main reason I'm going with soil in a little bit bigger pot.
 
TCH

TCH

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laddyd said:
Wish I could grow tomatoes here, it just gets too hot too fast.
I have the cloning trays so like a sucker I will try again with some kind of heat resistant strain.
Nothing like a 100 dollar homegrown tomato though.
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Those sungold tomatoes will run like mad once they are established. The first summer I grew them, we had like a 30 day stretch at 90°+ with 7-8 days at 100 or so. I couldn't kill them if I tried. Hahaha
 
Offmymeds

Offmymeds

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So I had to go xmas shopping on Tuesday, no golf for me. When I woke up yesterday it was raining! Oh great I blew my golf day.
But wait! By 10 am it has cleared off and this is what I saw.
Looking back from the 11th green of the Conquistador course. This is my home course in Oro valley. Pusch ridge part of the Santa Catalina mountains in the background.
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I've decided to move.
 
DCcan

DCcan

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laddyd said:
Wish I could grow tomatoes here, it just gets too hot too fast.
I have the cloning trays so like a sucker I will try again with some kind of heat resistant strain.
Nothing like a 100 dollar homegrown tomato though.
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I've been adding glycene betatine to the container plants, really makes a difference in the heat.
Mostly it prevents wilting, but also helps prevent garden tomatoes and fruit from cracking. Almost never get cracked tomatoes anymore.
It's a beet extract that regulates water pressure in the cells, among other things.

I've came home on 104f on the porch, roots are bone dry, pot leaves are still praying and photo sythesizing.
This is used in Ag frequently on cherries, tomatoes, other thin skinned fruits. Apply once a month, foiliar or drench.

LALSTIM OSMO - Protects plant tissues against negative effects of environmental stresses

"Facilitates water uptake and retention by acting as an osmoprotectant and adjusts the osmotic balance inside plant cells and tissues exposed to hyperosmotic stress. It enhances photosynthesis, nitrogen metabolism, and translocation during environmental stresses such as heat, cold, drought, and salinity."
 
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Dboybudz

Dboybudz

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DCcan said:
I've been adding glycene betatine to the container plants, really makes a difference in the heat.
Mostly it prevents wilting, but also helps prevent garden tomatoes and fruit from cracking. Almost never get cracked tomatoes anymore.
It's a beet extract that regulates water pressure in the cells.

I've came home on 104f on the porch, roots are bone dry, pot leaves are still praying and photo sythesizing.
This is used in Ag frequently on cherries, tomatoes, other thin skinned fruits. Apply once a month, foiliar or drench.

LALSTIM OSMO - Protects plant tissues against negative effects of environmental stresses
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Nice info, have that happen every year with tomatoes splitting in summer.
 
shnkrmn

shnkrmn

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TCH said:
The plan is to salvage the moms I have left and then take better care of them. Ultimately, I'd like to get them repotted, nursed back to great health, and then start topping and training into short bushes with lots of clones. Ideally,they will stay as small as they can while still having a little cushion on having to feed and water. That's the main reason I'm going with soil in a little bit bigger pot.
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I go back and forth between serial moms, where I clone and kill, or keeping larger plants longer, in which case I prune the crap out of them. Just have to leave one node for a branch to regenerate.
 
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