This is a nice post and all, but I'm guessing that the only reason anyone is even arguing about this because these people believe 3D is superior to 2D.

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Snally, where do you find all this stuff?

I think she found it on http://www.tomatoville.com

-_-

Glad I could be of help

If you have joined Tomatoville that's an excellent place, as well as Dave's Garden if it is still around. Carolyn at Tomatoville was a saint in answering questions for me, but I don't know if she is still there.

Keep in mind eggplants are in the same family as tomatoes, peppers, and potatoes if you are soil growing. They are susceptible to the same things.

/r/wholesomedrama

lol!

Don't know what that is. At least it isn't little black caterpillar droppings.

I can't really tell from the picture, but if it is powdery and you can wipe it off it is mostly likely fungus. But if it is hard feels like it is growing out of the plant, Possibly just new stem growth trying to happen in the wrong spot. Typical culprits are too humid conditions and overwatering. Root Primordia

If it is happening specifically at Stem joints, or "nodes" and not randomly on the stems, I wouldn't worry about it, probably just new growth like you said.

For whats it's worth I've found adding "-tomato" to any google searches really helps to weed out the overwhelming amount of traffic geared toward your average home grower and their tomato issues.

Are you growing indoors or something? What's with the purple hue?

They're cotyledon, the first leaves produced by the seed. They'll just fall off at some point don't worry about them.

post tomato plants

Hot

Half of my last patio project: https://imgur.com/1zD1XK5 Early Girl: https://imgur.com/1LzlPdx Black Prince: https://imgur.com/gXWmsZJ San Marzano: https://imgur.com/Go7E0Ze

When the others start fruiting I will post them too.

U r my inspiration. 😍

Who the fuck picks agriculture for their hobby?

Women?

🤢🤢🤮

Funfact: Today Is International Whores Day

Load farming seems like the superior career path, truthfully.

I unironically think agriculture sounds like a pretty cool hobby tbh.

You like to sow your seed?

Yeah, but to torture the metaphor what I do is the equivalent of throwing seeds in a cup of bleach.

Where most genetic material belongs, tbh

Homosexuality is the only ethical position to take tbh.

You're alright, kid.

I don't think I'd do it in a million years, but cultivating plants and stuff is definitely a legit hobby.

I'd never have the attention span to do it and I hate shit that requires effort, but yeah, I think it's cool, idk.

It's shockingly little effort after prepping the soil and seeding. You can actually be lazier because they're right there in your yard.

The issue is that if you don't have a garden, you need to give them water every so often. And it's a lot of commitment. I am barely able to look after myself, how could anyone expect me to care about plants ?

Given how my orchids ended, Imma go with no.

or babies

They are easier if you make them in groups.

Orchids are supposed to be easy to take care of too.

Not really. They need a specific climate to do well.

That's what I and my ex-wife thought, but CPS disagreed

Were you arrested when they took your ex-wife away?

Just get some succulents. Those things can go weeks without you watering them and still be fine

Shit I haven't watered my cactus in three months, I probably should

But let's be real, this commented already exhausted my motivation

I smoke outside. Watering is something to do while enjoying a butt.

You should try growing some herbs in a window or on your porch. It's pretty damn easy and makes the food you cook taste better.

I like making habitats for 🐞 and 🐛.

I grow e tomatoes and pick em. They are better than the cardboard shit at the grocery store.

Yes but my neighborhood Whole Foods assures mine are GMO and intelligence free sustainably grown.

intelligence free

This is important. You don't want another Attack of the Killer Green Tomatoes on your hand.

Have I just been extremely unlucky in my Heirloom Tomato experience? Because every time I attempted to get and use them they're pretty mushy and get bruised at the drop of a hat, and then proceed to start stinking like the day after I got them if I don't cook them immediately?

Have I been buying over ripe ones every single time? I don't get how that's statistically possible.

Well they aren't independent events because the same dummy is picking them each time.

He's buying them, not growing his own. That's his problem. Heirlooms don't keep like the grocery store crap, and are meant to be enjoyed shortly after picking. Grocery store tomatoes aren't bred for flavor, they are bred for looking pretty and long shelf life. That means less acid and sugars. That's why they look great but taste like shit.

I don't even think about anything internet, politics, etc-related until all of my plants are taken care of.

Gross.

Heirloom tomatoes are all I used to do, but don't overlook some of the hybrids as well. Once you taste home grown tomatoes you started yourself from seeds you will never look at grocery store tomatoes the same. Here at my local HEB they sell tomatoes with a piece of dry vine still attached and call those "Vine Ripened" as some kind of stupid joke to go with the bland taste they deliver.

You're in a good hobby. :)

Keep posting on Tomatoville and if Dave's Garden is still around, there as well. Late summer early fall they start doing seed swaps, and you can get a lot there just by trading. For instance, pick a few varieties you want to try and get those seeds. You won't use them all, but others may want to try them and send you their extra in exchange. The last and only time I participated, I bought like 5 packs of 50 seeds I wanted to use, and at the end of swapping ended up with over 100 varieties of seeds.

Here at my local HEB

South Texas represent

It is an ableist, white, middle-class hobby that can't be engaged in by people who live in their vans. It's divisive and exclusionary tbh fam

I don't even think about anything internet, politics, etc-related until all of my plants are taken care of.

white people smh

I built a herb spiral in my garden. Awesome project.

Sure!

Here's how it turned out shortly after finishing and planting.

Gathering all the rocks happened pretty gradually. Once those were collected, myself and a friend did most of the building over two days, but gave it two weeks to let the soil settle down and fill in all the gaps in inner structure before planting anything.

There is sorrel, french tarragon, Thai coriander, some reddish variety of basil, oregano, two kinds of lavender, a buchu plant, some lemon balm and fennel.

The silvery one is a dwarf curry leaf plant. I threw some swiss rainbow shard spinach / fordhook giant spinach plus some cos lettuce round the other side which isn't visible since they'll still do fine in partial shade.

Sweet!

I do. It’s the only way I can guarantee vegetables that have been grown with full vegan principles - no pesticides, all organic, no manure for fertilization, non-fluoridated water. Only the purest vegetables for me and my cat.

Tomatoes are as poisonous as the lies of the anti-dinosaur 🦖 liberation front

If dinosaurs were real I'm pretttty sure we'd notice them

(((They))) are hiding them from us. Get woke.

I hope she comes to the sub and spergs out like that vinyl lady

No one will ever top the ranch lady.

Why do only women come and rage on the sub? Do men just go and shoot someone irl to take out their rage?

Men who come and rage generally become part of the more ambient noise in the sub I think.

Men (or "holes" as I call them) in general are quite boring so it's not very notable.

Men definitely come here and rage

There was the vinyl.com guy, and a whole bunch of others that I can't remember offhand

yeah but vinyl lady was way more insistent

No one is more insistent than ranch lady! She's been going at it for over a decade and has shown up in random-ass places like a fucking men's shaving forum. Stand down! My queen is better than your queen.

Plus yours is actually real. There's no way the vinyl lady, no matter how entertaining, wasn't a troll.

I thought we all agreed vinyl lady was a front for the dude?

Vinyl lady was obviously the male owner of that business

Vinyl guy is the correct terminology

Who was the ranch lady?

/u/springs131

This isn't your normal lolcow btw. Her career is like 7 years longer than Chris Chan's.

Somehow I missed that one, holy shit thats grade A insanity.

She is greater than /r/drama. The fact she even showed up here is kinda impressive. Even /u/snallygaster would struggle to keep up with her insanity

I don't want to prod. Your ability to communicate with the dregs of society shouldn't be messed with.

I still say you don't know what she's up to nowadays now because I'm sure there is a snail-racing forum where she is currently fighting people about how much time the word "hello", wastes that you aren't aware of.

THE RANCH MAIDEN

I love her so much. It's the purest, most persistent lolcow insanity ever. When are we gonna mod her?

springs131

HOLY FUCK. She's here too?!

> thinking that was a legit sperg out and not some drama regular trolling the rest

Lol

You don't have to hope, you can do the ole ego bait and anonymously PM her on wherever she hangs out at and bait her here.

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Wow, I hadn't thought of visiting there in years. Did get a lot of good advice when I was active. I still grow heirlooms, but just haven't found the need to post there. Thanks for bringing this place back up. Will start visiting again.

I just got back into it this year, after taking a few years off due to living arrangements(I rent). This year in March I planted Early Girl determinate variety, Black Prince, and San Marzano. Early Girl and Black Prince both have produced a lot, and Early Girl is just about done. Both are delicious with Early Girl being more tangy, and Black Prince being sweeter and milder. The mockingbirds here in Texas and my room mate preferred my Early Girls. I plan on growing more Early Girls next year, but probably not Black Prince. The San Marzanos are just now getting to full ripe, and the flowers are still fruiting even now in this horrid Austin TX heat. I plan on starting to pick them tomorrow. :)

I planted 4 others that I planned for a late run, but they are already blooming now. Purple Cherokee, Caspian Pink, Sungold, and Green Zebra. No fruit yet as I planted them later.

Next year my only ones I plan to do set in stone are Early Girl, and Ferris Wheel which are excellent if you ever come across them.

It was at either Tomatoville or Daves Garden I participated in a seed swap and ended up with over 100 varieties of seeds that I've had in an air conditioned storage for about 7 years now. I have to go get and see what I got, but don't know if they will be good anymore. Trays are cheap though, and I'll see what grows.

No land. I rent LOL. I made a jungle out of my last apartment patio, and my neighbors loved it as I was giving away tomatoes all the time. I did about 12 varieties that last time, and used 5 to 10 gallon pots. Tomatoes can grow into monsters in containers if you do regular watering every night. I got 10 foot plants and used kite string for trellising.

One advantage container growing has is that many diseases heirlooms are susceptible to are soil borne. In potting soil you don't have that. Potting soil can also be thrown out after plants have died from frost, containers cleaned and sterilized of any diseases the last plant left behind and ready to use next year. With tilling in the ground if the plant had any disease problem that will still be present in the soil. That's why people always suggest rotating crops. Don't plant tomatoes, peppers, or potatoes if any were grown in that same soil the season before. That isn't a problem in containers.

I used 10 gallon containers at the time(2012 or 2013?) because I had a couple of them. Don't anymore. 5 gallons seemed to work as well. HEB has 10 "wood barrell" type containers right now that look nice for $10 a piece. Thinking of getting a couple for the Caspian Pink and Cherokee Purple and just getting a couple of 5 gallon buckets for the other 2 tomorrow, and drilling holes in them.

The whole idea is more room for the root system to grow, which makes for a stronger plant. I really didn't see any difference, but so many say otherwise my experience alone shouldn't be a factor.

5.0 gallons = 18.93 litres

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About a gallon each. Water drains out every night, and each evening before I water the plants look happy. Make sure you have good drainage. If you let the plants start looking droopy between watering the fruit will get cracks after you water them after a dry spell.

I never did answer your second question. The patio garden faced south east, so they got full morning to early afternoon sun. That helped a lot in Austin where late afternoon sun is miserable. My current plants are facing south west and getting more late afternoon heat. The Cherokee Purple and Caspian Pink will be moved to the SE side tomorrow, and maybe even the Green Zebra. We will see. They are still small enough to move(another advantage of growing in pots). I will leave the Sungold where it is. Cherry tomatoes don't seem to give a fuck about heat in general from my experience.

I've never grown either of those, but both have very good reputations. I was thinking of Tula or Black Trifele next year for a black variety. Kellogs are supposed to be monsters and wonderful, but probably won't try them next season as I only want to have a few beefsteak types next year. We will see. The fun is in planning this out.

Order your seeds in the fall, and plant the seeds in early winter is the way to do it here in this zone.

Mistakes will be made along the way(we've all made them), but am glad to see you went to a good place to learn. Growing good food for yourself is a passion I wish more would take up.

Neat

lisa is why i'm not a libertarian

Snally you're the only poster I actually read anymore honestly. You're magic.

You really have not thought about writing a book on the history of drama or something like that?

Good point. I'm glad your humbleness made you stay within this sub.

Wait, is this some sort of video game?

And I thought gamergate drama was autistic

incredible amish drama and everyone's gonna overlook it for that one retard's bussy

I appreciate your posts but really, why bother?

Call me spoiled but I'm going to need screenshots with ms paint rings and arrows and maybe some reaction images but definitely some highlighted text portions that have been resized in MS paint.

Not joking