>>21900834
pink brandywine tomatoes

Have you grown any other tomatoes before? Likely failure otherwise.

>>21900843
yeah

i bet they taste like, uhhh, tomatoes!

>>21900834
When you go to put them in the ground/planter, mix 1-2 tablespoons of epsom salt into the soil around the root ball. It'll help boost magnesium in the soil and help keep the plant green and healthy.

>>21900834
you will have tomatoes...

and caterpillars (thuricide) thank me later.

>>21900834
How are you going to support them? I like the grow my stsrts to be like 8-12 inches tall and then remove all the leaves until the top set or two then you plant them entire stalk in a deep hole with a handful of organic 4-4-4 thrown in. The stalk grows roots, and burying the rootball deep means watering will be much easier. If you have watering on point you can also bury them sideways and it works even better for root development, but they're not as easy to keep watered.

Florida weave is pretty nice if you have a few of them. After you pick the toms closest to the ground you can prune the first foot or two of leaves and stalks completely off to help airflow and prevent any molding issues.
Research how many runners you want to have and keep on top of it. 1-3 is pretty good place to be, but you need to keep them all well supported and off the ground.

>>21900873
>How are you going to support them?
Alimony and a college fund.

>>21900858
giant, delicious, meaty tomatoes, one of the best tasting tomatoes there is next to the Cherokee Purple.

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>>21900834
Great BLTs!
I wish your plants well

>>21900834
hopefully delicious tomatoes, good luck :)

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>>21900834
if you care and nurture them properly you will get some of the best tomatoes you'll ever have
>>21900916
Cherokee Purple is the best tomato I have ever had but they don't grow well in my climate. Brandywines are a more hardy and resilient plant that work better in the high altitude arid climate that I live in with dramatic hot and cold temperature wings.

I live in Florida. Can I grow these meaty sexy tomatoes? Easily?

>>21901096
easily
>Brandywine tomatoes love heat. The hotter and more humid the better your Brandywine tomatoes will do. You should even expect more tomatoes because Brandywines love Florida’s summer.
>Perfect in Pots:
>If there is any tomato that can be grown in gardening pots in Florida, it’s Brandywine tomatoes. This is one of the most adaptive tomatoes, making it perfect for beginner gardeners in Florida.

>>21901094
Those look fucking disgusting

>>21901121
yeah but they taste amazing

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>>21901121
they are very dark and rich in flavor.

>>21900834
I don't know but the pink colour makes me imagine that they'd be blander than regular tomatoes.

>>21901100
Well shit thanks anon. I'll look up how shitty the bug situation is.

>>21901141
they are sweeter and slightly more acidic, one of the best tasting tomato strains with a rich tomato flavor, nothing like a bland garbage store bought tomato.

>>21901149
>more acidic
So maybe a touch more baking soda when making sauce? Is it gonna give me eternal heartburn?

>>21901121
I find them rather inviting

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tomato sammich season is too far away for me, it's still winter.

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>>21901169
that's why you start them indoors now and then plant them outside after the last frost to maximize your tomato growing potential.

>>21900834
There's more than one kind of tomato?

>>21901178
tens of thousands of different kinds.

This thread is making my mouth water

>>21900834
Boredom, hunger, hatred of caterpillars, and finally a state of abject despair as your plants slowly wither from a thousand nameless diseases without yielding any usable fruits.

>>21901190
>Boredom, hunger
do you just sit and stare and tomato plants waiting for them to grow?

>>21901219
Yeah.

>>21900834
I wish that there was a way to get real tomatoes without growing them yourself. The shit they sell as grocery stores and put on fast food shouldn't even be called tomato.

I planted early girl, and champion.

it gets hot pretty early in the year here and I hope to get a small crop in before summer. hopefully they won't die over the summer.

last year I planted one tomato plant. I got about a dozen tomatoes, it just survived the summer, and then at some point it got destroyed by caterpillars. I killed 15 but it was too late.

my current plants are in insect nets and I sprayed them with thuricide a bacteria that kills caterpillars when they eat it.

>>21901238
Go to a farmers market when they're in season, you silly ass tomlet.

>>21901246
>implying that every city has a farmers market.

>gardeners are getting excited about spring thread
kek

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>>21901243
>hopefully they won't die over the summer
Hey anon, I heard you had some lush tomato plants. Hope you don't mind I helped myself to a little snack.

>>21901250
The tomlet said he wished there was a way to get good tomatoes without growing them. I provided the answer. Simple as. You are the one looking at edge cases because of your tomlet like nature.

>>21901257
depends on the region, not a lot of tomato farmers in most places, just people buying store bought shit and selling them at a higher price.

>>21901256
they didn't eat the tomatoes, they ate all the leaves.

>>21901257
I grown my own.

>>21901260
this happens more than it should

>>21901256
OM NOM NOM NOM

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>>21901141
There are dozens of varieties of brandywines, you can get them as dark or red as you like.

>>21900863
Look at this retarded city slicker who doesn't know shit about crops

>>21901293
epsom salt is a well known tomato 'secret' among gardeners.

>>21901190
t. gardenlet

Try getting predator bugs if you're have that much of an issue. I had way too many tomatoes

>>21901094
Gotta love how hipsters have craft tomatoes now like those fags who drink craft beer. None of these are from nature therefor not real tomatoes

>>21901243
early girl produces like crazy from my experience.

>>21901296
>people that grow food are hipsters now
just kill yourself worthless retard.

>>21901296
Insanely stupid post, homeslice.

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>>21901293
Did you think I meant table salt or something? These were some Cherokee purples I did last year, and I had a half dozen other varieties that thrived with the Epsom salt.

>>21901315
1) Don't know why that posted sideways
2) Fuck phoneposting with these retarded captchas

>>21900863
I recall learning about peoples fields being salted in history class long ago, is this a ruse?

>>21901330
that was sodium, epsom salt is magnesium

>>21901330
That was meant to poison the land and probably never actually happened.

this year ill be growing
>norfolk purple tomato
>sun sugar
>purple zebra
>tangerine krim
>midnight roma

any other small tomato suggestions?

can you grow these indoors?

>>21901781
more than 35% of the world's tomatoes are grown indoors (greenhouses) anon
indoor like your house? that'd be a little more difficult but you could get a climate controlled setup in a grow tent probably

My grocery store started stocking heirloom tomatoes and they are $4.99/lbs lmao. How hard is it to grow tomatoes I might give it a try.

>>21901787
relatively easy depending on your climate/setup
the kicker is they need an absurd amount of water to grow to fruition, and if you haven't grown fruit crops before you'll likely be doubtful but you will incur a significant portion of that retail cost on just the water alone (water is legally free up to a certain volume for farmers/growers in most of the world which helps reduce final retail cost, not so for us with small non commercial operations)
as long as you source properly and don't lose crop you should still beat out $5/lb of course, but know what you're getting into. your water bill WILL increase significantly, and you'll take the brunt of it right as they're getting to the prime point for animals to eat the entire lot, which can incur more costs getting fencing/etc up
pots, good soil & fertilizer should be near non-factors cost-wise if you have a good garden center. just try to buy good soil from an accredited source, and go in with a minimal slow release at planting, a 5-10-10 or 3-4-6 depending on the cultivar you choose. alternatively, if you want to go organic, band with seed or transplant into a mixture of bloodmeal and kelpmeal, and go in with high P/K at the first critical growth stage. continuing on the organics, epsom salt is wise for Mg alongside worm castings and fish emulsion. compost usage depends on the soil you have, may or may not be beneficial - do NOT cheap out on compost, if it has a ton of woodchips, it's garbage (high slow-breakdown carbon content will starve the plant) or, avoiding the organic costs, just liquid inject 5-10-10/10-10-20 at staging
if transplanting seedlings, soak the everliving fuck out of them before getting them in ground. like actually drown them for a few minutes, underwater. then plant transplants with 2 inches of soil UP the stem, so the root cluster is about 3-4 inches deep

>>21900843
>Likely failure otherwise.
This is a joke right tomato's are basically weeds. They'll grow in any soil and keep producing fruit for months. You can stunt their growth causing them to flower when they are like a foot tall,

One time I had a few plants that were beefsteak variety. And for teh lulz I decided to dwarf them alright. So the plant is like a foot tall with just a few stems, it started flowering like crazy. Tomatoes started forming like 2 dozen of them, they kept growing bigger and bigger and bigger. The stem was tiny you could see no green on the plant. It was just massive tomatoes like as big as a baseball for a few of them. It was impossible for the plant to hold itself up, so I started slowly flipping it and then placed a small amount of mesh on the bottom of the tomatoes to with string to hold them up. Shit looked so retarded, that plant produced dozens of tomatoes.
Another time I was gone from my place for like 7ish weeks from late spring to early summer. My backyard was 24ish feet by 10 feet wide, it was all fucking tomatoes still in their vegetative stage. They bushed out like crazy and because the plants grew so tall and so wide with so many side stems. They fell over and started growing roots from their stems. I had to rip up 90% of them because it was just insane, you know they were refusing to flower and took over not just the whole garden but the complete backyard.

If there is a single plant you want to grow and easily get 50lb of fruit with just a few plants in hardly any soil. Getting fruit over the span of months, plant tomatoes. Like they will produce fruit even in Canada where it gets cold and you can still have it flow in October giving fruit till the first frost.

This year I wanna try dwarfing/stunting them again but outdoor hydroponics in just a small bucket just a few plants. One of them I want to try doing the screen of green, where you mesh the plant tying it on a fence/chicken wire/wtv compact just 1sqft

>>21901094
>you will get some of the best tomatoes you'll ever have

I swear even the most shittly grown veggies/fruit. As long as its a heirloom variety not for factory farming doesnt produce shit tasteless fruit/veggies that only suck it water and flowering oddly producing fruit over time.

They all taste amazing especially tomatoes
sliced thick and padded down. Then just a tad of salt on them maybe some pepper or a dark vinegar. So fucking good man so fucking good, urban farming is easy as fuck everyone should be doing it.
The yellow/green zucchinis I grow did you know the ones at the stores are harvested right away and tiny. These things grow insanely quick you will easily get massive fuckers like a foot long and wider than a pint glass. They're not fiberous and hard if you water them a lot and keep them shaded. Just slice&cube em up and fry them pure perfection. Or slice them whole in a mandolin for these massive round disks and layer them with eggplants bit of tomato sauce and some cheese on bake em for awhile NOMNOMNOM Or slice them vertically for some long ass strips and add them with lasagna or some other baked dish so fucking good.

Tl;dr fight back against zoinist produce pricing the fraud and bullshit stores pull. Did you know most produce is thrown away because its not uniform in size&shape like do you really fucking care your fruit/veggies are not the same size when buying them. THE SAVINGS IS PAST ONTO THE CUSTOMER *rubs hands* stop questioning things goyium its covids fault prices are so high even tho the futures market has been back to normal since forever or how we are offering farmers record lows in prices for fucking everything yet stores are charging the highest prices its ever been.

Grow your own stuff anon 200-500lb is easypeasy. You'd be amazed what you can do with even a small ass balcony and a dozen or two basic sized bucket.

STOP SUPPORTING KIKE FRAUD
Paying farmers nothing they go bankrupt then buying&selling their land for big bucks

>>21901781
look into dwarf tomatoes. indeterminate tomatoes can grow up to 10+ feet

>>21901861
anon you can make anything stunted/dwarf
The coolest shit is by controlling the lighting, you can make plants automatically flower. Basically skipping the vegetative state all by giving them 12-12 lights and then switch shit to 18-6/20-4/or even go full madman stressing the plants so much with 23-1. Giving them heavy fertilizers&water controlling the temp etc. But aso once they start heavily flowering and producing fruit/veggies lowering the temp massively so at "night" its super cold forcing/stressing the plant to go OH SHIT its already that time of the year GOGOGOGOGO produce a fuckload of fruit/veggies to make seeds. Keep in mind this is all being done indoors and hydroponically but still.

You can easily stunt/dwarf them outdoors by cutting the plant or bendindddg/breaking the main stem at the top by a bit or by just not transplanting them keeping them in a small amount of soil and a small ass pot but give them a lot of water and the right amount of fertilizers with lots of good sunlight you know without burning the plants.

Agricultural botany is such a fun hobby, with a great pay off for all the effort&time spent fooling around with your plants. YOU GET TO EAT EVERYTHING! You get to produce a shit load of food, with the only costs being the first(and only if you are not retarded) time buying seeds and different fertilizers also soil/growth medium(mostly clay beads soil is free dumbdumb unless its special kinds go find it and carry it home you lazy fuck) maybe buying some cool pots. Hydro gear is cheap small aquarium pumps shrimple plastic piping buckets from restaurants or large PVC pipes from construction sites.

ALSO you know whats really fun?
Buying bulk weed seeds, make proper seed bombs.
Throwing those everywhere in public parks. So they manage to grow fully. Because there is so many even if people notice. Overtime it becomes a landrace, but because they are full of seeds,bugs&etc it'll get you high but a terrible rough smoke.

>>21901819
>>21901943
this is AI slop

>>21901296
Cultivars have been around for decades, centuries probably
Why discourage people from growing their own food

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choose your fighter

>>21901954
>AI slop
>Very clearly intoxicated, with grammar that makes an India look like an ivy league PhD recipient
Fuck me anon, yeah no you're the AI. I can already see your jewish claws ree'ing typing the reply.

YES YESSSSSS GOYIM eat more round-up ready®™℠ GMO frankinfruit/veggies. Support our wasteful system, we give you the customers SAVINGS!. Eating organic is beyond antisemtic&evil, not supporting and only buying patented gods gift the goyium ROUND-UP READY®™℠ veggie/fruit varieties. Is brown third world behavior, just like growing your own fruits/veggies if you live in a first world country. God forbid you do this in a very urban environment THIS IS AMERICA *bald eagle screeches* the HOA will fine you tens of thousands of dollars for havinig a few pots growing fruits&veggies.

YOU DARE RUIN A NEIGHBORHOOD BY NOT GROWING ROUND-UP READY®™℠ grass in your front&backyard and only have ROUND-UP READY®™℠ grass growing with maybe the correct ROUND-UP READY shrubs&bushes. BY HAVING A FULL ON GARDEN THAT IS NOT THE APPROVED ROUND-UP READY®™℠ GMO PATENTED FLOWERS! YOU DARE DO SOMETHING SO THIRD WORLD CLAIMING THAT GROWING YOUR OWN FRUIT&VEGGIES IS GOOD FOR THE ENVIRONMENT,SAVES YOU MONEY,CAN BE GIFTED TO OTHERS AND WORSE OF ALL CLAIM THAT SO MANY DIFFERENT PLANTS WITH DIFFERENT COLOURS LOOKS BEAUTIFUL. THAT SEEING ALL THE FRUITS&VEGGIES GROWING IS WONDERFUL.
NOT ONLY THAT BUT THIS DOES SOMETHING EVEN WORSE!!!

IT ALLOWS FILTHY WILDLIFE TO INFEST YOUR YARD/BALCONY BUTTERFLIES/MOTHS BIRDS(ESPECIALLY THE DESTRUCTIVE&FILTHY HUMMING BIRDS) AND THE BIGGEST MOST DANGEROUS OFFENDERS BEES THE INSECT MONOSTANTO&DUPONT HAVE BEEN FIGHTING TO ERADICATE. BEES ARE VIOLENT CREATURES THAT VIOLATE ROUND-UP READY®™℠ PATENT BY SPREADING OUR POLLEN TO OTHER NORMAL PLANTS STEALING OUR GENES BEING THE WORST PATENT TROLLS KNOWN TO MANKIND!! THEY ARE ALSO AFRICANIZED NOW AND BEYOND DANGEROUS STINGING EVERYONE THEY NEED TO BE CLEANSE FROM THE WORLD

>>21900834
a good time

>>21901802
Tell me your secrets tomatoman. What is your soil composition and what fertilisers and nutrients do you add for big reds. They don't grow in sandy soil, you must be lucky to have a good growing medium/climate without any extra work

>>21900834
Tomatoe

>>21902088
AIDR

>>21901943
how do I grow a tomato in my closet without turning the rest of my house into a greenhouse?

>>21904433
Get some grow lights

>>21904900
Why? I know this is the tallest that I will get. My parents were short, I don't think a light is gonna help much.

>>21903350
NTA, but I don't even have to fucking plant tomatoes. The ones that fall off the vine just sprout the next year. Tomatoes will literally grow in my yard. They are stupid simple to grow. I could probably take a random scoop out my compost bin and multiple tomato plants would sprout, probably even a spaghetti squash. How plant-retarded do you have to be to not be able to grow a tomato?

>>21900834
can you make pizza sauce with these?

>>21904900
do I have to make the closet hotter and more humid than the rest of the house? I don't want to end up with mold.

tomatoes maybe

>>21905342
The lights will make it hotter and the water you give the plants will add moisture tard. Get a small grow tent and a decent LED or Sodium Vapor light if you're actually going to grow things indoors.

Not sure why you would do this when you can go down to a hothouse and just get one for 50c whenever you want but whatever.

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>>21905249
long boys are best for sauces

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>>21905391
No I can't, an heirloom tomato is $5/lbs

Best yield from a 5 gallon bucket in southwest Florida?

also is there a way to space out harvest instead of just having like 50 tomatoes at once one week of the year

>>21905441
Plant them at different times.

>>21905448
does that actually work or do they just mature at the same period and the ones that were planted later end up smaller and producing less because they had less time to vegetate?

>>21905474
Indeterminite tomatoes will keep producing until the first frost.

>>21905372
does the tent contain the humidity? can I still put it in my closet? I live alone and never have any guests so it doesn't really matter, but having a greenhouse tent in the middle of my living room would be weird.

>>21905514
Yes. There is some from the exhaust in mine, but it's not going to be a jungle. Mine is a 2*2*6' black rectangle. I have another 4*4.

>>21901296
>not real tomatoes
what do you think wild tomatoes look like, retard?

>>21905514
i know it's a bit of a meme but look up videos of people growing marijuana indoors, different but similar enough process and tons of high quality videos on grow tents

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>>21901295
This desu
My ladybug, green lacewing, assassin bug, praying mantis stack had me pest free all summer last year. Was consistently getting 5lbs of beefsteaks per week from 4 plants.
This shit is not hard kek

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>>21901296
>REAL tomatoes have never been tried

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>>21905514
>having a greenhouse tent in the middle of my living room would be weird
Kek that’s exactly what I do and it’s awesome. These two are for herbs and other weird shit I’m working on. Got one a littler bigger than these two combined for veggie projects

>>21906658
Based
What are those spindly ones at the top right?

>>21900834
If you have never had a garden grown tomato before you are in for a surprise.

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>>21907195
German Chamomile
Had a little trouble initially just because they like it just SO light and airy. Now they’re growing like champs!

I did some Burmese sour tomatoes last year. They're not forwardly sour but your mouth will be puckering and burning like crazy a minute later. Real interesting variety.

>Aunt Gertie’s heirloom gold
>San Marzano sauce
>”sweet million” round cherry
From seed. Probably will get some 3inch starts of Mortgage Lifters later on since everyone always loves those.

>>21907521
That would make for some really interesting salsa or tomato soup

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I got a Maglia Rosa start from my neighbor last year, some of the tastiest tomatoes I've ever had, highly recommended.

>>21906658
that looks kind of cool I wonder if you can get a big cabinet kind of thing with doors instead of that zip up cover. like those things boomers have in their dining rooms but with plants instead of useless collections of plates.

my grandpa refused to grow anything but black krims and we ended up with like 300 pounds of them every single fucking year
You can't do shit with them but eat them in some raw form, and as delicious as they were, it gets exhausting having a big ass slice of very assertive TOMATO in every sandwich, with salt at every meal, chopped on top of omelettes at breakfast
Sauce made with them was only attempted once out of "fuck they're going bad" necessity and sucked ass
Fuck you for reading my blog

>>21907628
That’s a super cool idea and you could definitely do it. Would likely have to be DIY but you’d just need the lights, a desk fan, and some water proof mats. Then you could do it to basically any cabinet, even a goodwill one. Just hang bar lights under the shelves and at the top. Also make sure to add a some ventilation and a hole or two for power cable management. Timer on the wall outlet so you never have to remember it yourself and you’d be golden!

>>21907572
Probably way too sour for a soup base, but I do regret not slicing some up and dehydrating them

>please talk more about the tomatoes guys

>>21909624
This is for you

>>21907559
What the hell is a mortgage lifter

>>21909632
A cultivar of tomato. They’re beefsteaks that I find to be very tasty and VERY productive. They grow pretty big and don’t afraid of anything. Just a classic red, basically. They make KILLER BLTs

>>21909634
Good for beginners then?
The more people talk about the difference the now I want real fresh tomatoes

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>>21909701
Yeah, they’d probably be solid for that.
>QRD on growing tomatoes for beginners
>starting things from seed is the cheapest but a little harder for absolute beginners. Consider buying the 3 inch starters from your local nursery.
>there are two types of tomato variety even among cultivars: determinate and indeterminate. Determinate grows the fruit all at once and you harvest pretty much all at once, indeterminate grows a long vine all season and you can pick tomatoes weekly. This will ALWAYS be indicated on a tomato seed packet or container label. Very important to know about your plants. (mortgage lifters are indeterminate)
>planting in ground is totally fine. I like the fabric pots myself, easier to control things. Go for the 7 gallon ones if you choose that. Yeah it’s a lot of dirt, but you want a big plant so you need a sturdy base.
>you’re gonna have to get comfortable with fertilizer. Fact. This scares people but you don’t want to be one of those gardenlets who spends all season growing 4 tomatoes.
>if you are nervous about fertilizer, apply it at 1/4 strength. Almost nothing will happen except you growing confident that you won’t kill them
>buy powder fertilizer that you dilute and then water down into the soil. The little sticks or whatever are stupid.
>read the fucking DIRECTIONS on the fertilizer. Sometimes the dose for one gallon of water covers 10 square feet. Your pots are much smaller than 10 square feet most likely. Pay attention.
>you are GOING to need to support these plants. The flimsy little cages are NOT going to be enough. Get thicker steel ones that are quite tall. 5-7 feet ideally. Plant these at the same time as you transplant the seedlings or starters so you don’t disturb the roots later
>I use the “single lead method” it’s easy and works great. You can find a YouTube video.
>cont

>>21909722
>if you do that, you WILL need study and tall stakes. Put the stake next to the stem when you transplant. Don’t want to disturb roots and you’ll be tying off to it later.
>you don’t need to tie off SHIT until the plant is two or three feet tall. You tie it loosely to support it when it can no longer support its own weight on the upward growth. Resist the urge to put it in bondage kek. You’re just supporting it so it can get tall.
>pick tomatoes when they’re about halfway red. By that point all of the compounds that make the fruit “taste like a tomato” are already produced and it just ripens. Taking it now prevents cracking, gets it away from predators, and gets it off the plant sooner so that water/energy is redirected toward the new fruit
I think that’s most of it!

>>21909701
>>21909722
Save your eggshells.
If the tomatoes start getting blossom end rot you can sprinkle crushed eggshells around the base and it'll give the plant calcium.

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>>21909723
Fuck. Mulch
You NEED mulch. Get the cedar stuff. It will be maybe 4 dollars for a big bag of it. It keeps the soil more moist below, prevents other shit (like little mushrooms and shit) from sprouting at the dirt line, and helps prevent pests a little too. A one or two inch layer on top is fine. This is more necessary that I can really express for any type of gardening. A lot of people just skip it for some reason.

>>21900834
update: my seeds have sprouted!

>>21909731
we skip it because it's unnecessary

>>21911440
If you happen to get lucky and none of that shit he described shows up, sure.

>>21900834
It must be nice living in a place where you can plant tomatoes at the start of March.

>>21911643
I mean, nothings preventing you from starting your plants, but I won't be putting things into the ground for a while yet. Most everything I've got is gonna be living on a sunny windowsill until April.

>>21911643
you start them indoors so they are ready to plant after the last frost

>>21900837
fpbp

>>21900834
Powdery mildew.
T. Knower

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>>21911435
>7 days
Spot fucking on for good germination conditions. Nice work, anon! Keep it up
What’s your germination rate so far?

bros im starting tomatoes from seeds for the first time this year
how much of a meme is hardening them off? i live in an apartment and grow in a community garden, so i dont have any place outside to put them for a few hours a day for a week

>>21900834
I like the interior structure because it looks more rigid and won't fall apart/throw slime everywhere like a normal tomato.

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>>21911968
Hardening off is not at all a meme.
Couple options I guess and maybe another anon has a better idea- but basically you need moving air to strengthen the stems and to get them used to the temperature change. Kind of like how when you buy a goldfish, you put the unopened bag in the new water for a while to harmonize the temperatures and not shock the fish. Sort of
So firstly, if you’re going to try for 0 or extremely limited hardening time: get a fan that blows on the seedlings. Rotate them day by day but this helps strengthen your stems
Secondly, the ultimate goal of this is to help them adapt to a new temperature. You could do this by setting them in a wide open window. It’d be a lot less effective than sitting outside but could work.
One of those dual window fans where one pulls in air and the other exhausts could serve both purposes. Your apartment would get quite cold obviously.
You could also keep them inside longer (with proper airflow) so that when you do finally plant them, it’s farther into the season and warmer. That’ll likely stunt them a little and might take several more weeks depending on climate where you live.
Really the main point is that you need moving air and to acclimate them to a lower temperature. It’s not a meme. Your seedlings will be rather unhappy if you skip this part, if not straight up die.

>>21912042
already have a fan, so im good in that dept.
is a sunny window in the afternoon enough for the UV exposure? (i only have west facing windows)
i heard the leaves will burn outside because theyre not adapted to the UV. thats my main concern.
thanks for the info!

>>21901178
Not just with tomatoes my friend. Many other fruits and vegetables.

>>21902049
>banana legs
based

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>>21912049
Yeah you’d want to find a way to get them some direct sun and acclimate them to that too. I have heard of planters that hang on the outside of windows, but I’m a suburbfag so I don’t know how truly feasible that is. An LED grow light might do well for you here. It absolutely will not replicate the intensity of full sun but it would be a hell of a lot better than window sun alone. Added bonus is that you could supplement nice light on overcast days. You can find some on Amazon for around $30. It’s just for tomatoes seedlings indoors so you don’t need top of the line anything; don’t get upsold on stonertech if you do go that route.
Signs that your plants are having trouble with light
>getting stretchy or leggy, long stem between leaves
>pale green color
>very soft leaves
Just watch them over time as well. If you know anybody else who gardens (or visit the community garden where other people are doing it), just check the leaves on the outdoor tomato plants and mentally compare to your own. You think yours can compete? You’re probably right, tomatoes are pretty easy to grow all in all. You feel insecure and mogged? Gotta get that light up

>>21902049
Black Krim

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>>21900834
A hell of a drunken good time if the name is any indication.

>>21911968
Huge.
My land gets very windy and after transplanting half of them end up bending over onto the ground.
Last year I made some plastic barriers to shelter them from most of the wind.
Usually harden them off in my garage with an oscillating fan set at low aimed at them.