Re: Greenhouse Tomato's
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- Subject: Re: Greenhouse Tomato's
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- Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 08:18:16 EDT
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In a message dated 6/28/99 7:52:54 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
Duncan.McAlpine@PSS.Boeing.com writes:
> Ok, I now have about 12 tomato plants in the greenhouse. They are all in
two
> gallon pots. Now what should I do? Should I build a string trellis or
use
> sticks? Do I need to worry about pollination?
I can answer that one. Commercial greenhouses used to use electric
vibrators to shake the plants, now they mostly have switched to bumblebees to
save labor costs. In your case shaking is the more cost-effective.
To avoid the risk of plant breakage, you might use a large fan or leaf
blower. Tomatoes are self fertile, but pollen transfer is often poor without
some kind of assistance. Outdoors you have both wind and (hopefully) bees to
do the job.
Pollinator@aol.com Dave Green Hemingway, SC USA
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