Re: Tomatoes
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  • Subject: Re: Tomatoes
  • From: &* <d*@comcast.net>
  • Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 08:11:43 -0400
Here, too. It's the difference in climate. We get scorching hot. NJ rarely did. 

d
----- Original Message ----- From: "Johnson, Cyndi D Civ USAF AFMC 95 CS/SCOSI" <cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil> 
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 6:15 PM
Subject: RE: [CHAT] Tomatoes



Conventional wisdom for my climate says don't prune at all, because we
need the leaf coverage to prevent sunscald. Hmmm.

Cyndi


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
Behalf Of Daryl
Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 2:53 PM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Tomatoes

It involved staking and pruning heavily, including pruning to one
leader.

d
----- Original Message ----- From: "james singer" <inlandjim1@q.com> 
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 5:35 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Tomatoes



What's Rutger's tight management, Daryl?

On Apr 14, 2010, at 2:17 PM, Daryl wrote:


Hmm. One leader resulted in earlier fruit, but not more fruit by
weight in experiments I did in the 70's while trying to refute
Rutgers' tight management practices. They won.

d

----- Original Message ----- From: "james singer" <inlandjim1@q.com>
To: "Garden Chat" <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 1:39 PM
Subject: [CHAT] Tomatoes



Friend in Oz sent this post yesterday: "I did an experiment recently
on tomatoes. Found that having just the one leader gave me more

fruit

and much quicker than letting the plant grow normally."

Inland Jim
Willamette Valley



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Willamette Valley

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