Tomatoes

[maxsuperdanks]

'educated guess' - same as cannabis, etc ... the plant adapts to the hours of daylight, regardless of what plant you're talking about ... :smokin:

Niiiicee


I might grow some tomatoes and weed.


That'd be awesome to have some sick marinara sauce home grown.

[Revanche21]

What would the lighting schedule be for vegging and flowering a tomato plant?

Quick search on Google yielded:

18-17 hours of light for veg and 12 hours of light for flowering

so yea, its the same

[stinkyattic]

I've had plenty of success growing hot peppers in my grow rooms, and half decent success with indoor maters- they just get so BIG! And they both attract aphids, yuck. If you want to do indoor I'd suggest a 'patio' style tomato that grows as a squat little bush, and that it be a 'determinate' type, which bears a heavy crop and then dies without getting big and scraggly. You should see the 7+ foot tall tomato at the local grow shop... LIVING IN A THREE GALLON POT!!! Oh, hahahahahahaa, what a sight. I think if I knew the owner better I might gently suggest that he put it in a bigger pot... but I don't want to insult him... maybe it's just a test or something. lol!

[sensilights]

well i didn't get to do the heirlooms this year but i did get a couple of early girls and a better boy, and got my cukes, strawberrys, herbs, and lettuce in...only problem was the day after i got everything planted it hailed, then rained 3 out of the next 4 days so their a bit droopy right now lol

On another note the superpoop i talked about before is some crazy superpoop! My mom got some a couple of weeks before I did and threw it in half of one of her beds to see if it was any good...the plants on that side were more than twice the size of the plants on the other side after 2 weeks lol

I threw some in with my lilies this year and after a week they've almost doubled in size...only problem was they don't clean it out so you have to pick through and pull out all the bits of wire and plastic and garbage that got shoveled up with the animal bedding which was pretty gross lol. i threw a bit in my compost pile too and its been moving much faster than before, AND at $5 for all i needed for the veggies and the flowers it was a pretty good deal.

[shauntic]

go 2 the supermarket they are cheap

[Shovelhandle]

Nothing like a fresh, garden tomato. I've been scarfing on them for weeks and weeks. I bagged up and froze gallons of them to cook with over the winter. I don't care for the winter grocery store tomatos, usually.

[adamsxm]

i have a tomato plant that keeps flowering but they die and no tomato.that ever happen to anyone?

[stinkyattic]

You need a pollinator. Or a paint brush and some patience. Tomatoes don't set fruit without the help of insects.

[cannawish]

it also could be that the plant is receiving water on an inconsistant or irregular schedule...sometimes that prevents the flowers from setting fruit.

[sensilights]

This is the craziest thing...i'm in zone 5 so my tomatoes and cukes should be done for the year (or so i thought) but i went out to check my cuke vine yesterday (which is yellow and whithery so i thought it was finishing up) and there are 3 nice sized fruits hiding on it and a ton of blossoms again! I have at least 50 large green tomatoes on the tomato plants (2) still as well and a bunch of blossoms on those..but the craziest is my strawberries which havn't produced any fruit since...july lol and these guys have a ton of little tiny fruits i didn't see before that are starting up...gogo superpoo lol

I've decided next year to try nothing but heirloom veggies and to start them all from seed...its good practice and $2 for 25 seeds is much better than $4 for a plant