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The tomato plants have hit the greenhouse roof and seem to be struggling up there now due to it. Is there a way I can force the plant to grow along the inside of the roof, supporting it as it goes?
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You can but ideally you need to be stopping it at around 6/7 trusses.Last edited by Bigmallly; 26-07-2012, 02:01 PM.sigpic“Gorillas are very intelligent, but they don't have to be as delicate as chimps -- they can just smash open the termite nest,”
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On strings wound around the stems?Comment
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Cut it off, and reroot in it's own pot.
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They'll grow wherever you point um, they are 'vines' without support they'd be crawling 90 degrees across the floor
Is it too late to start new plants from cuttings? My sister just lost all her beefsteak toms to blight, and I was thinking about doing her cuttings from mine (I've only the one) but I didn't think they'd have time to root, grow, flower and ripen.Comment
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Well they are only on about 4 right now.Originally posted by Bigmallly View Post
Thinking about just cutting the growing tip out and letting a sucker lower down become the new oneComment
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Tomatoes originated in South America, the Aztecs were using them about 700AD, in reality they are a jungle vine.
For that reason I think you you are asking to much of the plant this year in very rainy, dark Britain. While ever it is using its energy to produce green growth it will be slow to produce fruit.
I have cut my plants back to 4 trusses and am now eating toms with the promise of a half decent harvest.
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Has been a very bright sunny britain here for a few days and my toms have come on in leaps and bounds ....not cutting mine back yet. Tamsin , its always worth a go .If she's already lost all her toms then she's nothing to lose by trying some cuttings......S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
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Binners I bet your glass is always half full, where as mine is usually half empty.
Forecast in this area is now down hill for the next week.
ColinPotty by name Potty by nature.
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Oi less talk of the sploshy please,I got another 96 tec screws to get into my roof before the precipitation recommences
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They will still ripen indoors till quite late ....S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber
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The trouble is that while main stem maybe horizontal; all growth will still tend toward the light...ie into the roofglass causing scorch and botrytis. Better to concentrate the plant on producing quality fruitComment
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I'm a realist...I have half a glass...neither half full nor half empty!Originally posted by Potstubsdustbins View Post
I think you may struggle to take cuttings now....use the time and space more productivelyComment
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Sounds like a challenge to me ..........I like a challenge
S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber
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Binners I agree toms will turn red on the window sill.
However the sweetness of a tomato is determined by its sugar content, this sugar is produced by the action of sunlight on the leaves of the plant. Once the fruit is removed from the vine it can get no sweeter and its 'acid bite' will also remain the same.
As most supermarket tomato's are picked green one of the problems that they are addressing is the blandness of their product. There is at this time GM trials on a sweetening gene to try and help. If that happens no more toms from the supermarket for me.
ColinPotty by name Potty by nature.
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We hang petty thieves and appoint great ones to public office.
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