Can tomato plants be kept small?
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Alienwidow
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Sure, lst the plant and trim the little hookers sucker shoots off and shed just make a vine. You can train it any why you want. Personally i wouldnt. I tell this to everyone who wants to try this. I did it once with a jalepeno plant in a dwc. It was six feet wide and i thought it was the coolest thing ever. Then i got mites on it and i was spraying a six foot wide 2 dollar a pound jalepeno plant with 150$ per gallon bug spray, well that and the amount of light, nutes, and work i put into keeping that thing alive. I did get a shit ton of jalepenos from it but it was maybe four pounds if i was lucky, so eight bucks worth?
Youd be better off going to whole foods and buying the organic top of the line heirloom tomatos i think. But hey, thats only my two cents. If you want to run like a vertical trellis up the side of a tent and vine it up like i was saying, go for it, all the power to ya.
Youd be better off going to whole foods and buying the organic top of the line heirloom tomatos i think. But hey, thats only my two cents. If you want to run like a vertical trellis up the side of a tent and vine it up like i was saying, go for it, all the power to ya.
Vincent %)
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very interesting, I have never seen people growing tomatoes at home.
Alienwidow
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I started on indoor veggies before i ventured into other plants. Lettuce grows great, basil, peppers, tomatos, all sorts of crap. But it costs way more than organic top shelf food from high end markets just to produce it yourself. If your gung hoe about growing your own veggies during the winter......go outside and make a greenhouse out of a couple of 2x4s, or a few pieces of pvc. And cover it with plastic. Its real easy. I saw a girl make a 6x6 square raised bed and cover it with a teepee of 2x4s. Then she wrapped plastic around it and grew all winter.
ShLUbY
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as another poster mentioned above, you can take the suckers and plant them right in a cup of soil. keep it moist and make sure it drains well. in 12-15 days or so it will be ready for transplant. train the vine and let it make a couple sets of flowers, and then take the top off of the plant as a cut, so that there is no more vine to grow. this will top your tomato plant and it will develop the flowers (that you will have to self pollinate) into fruit, and if you've done this properly, there will be no more energy towards growing more vine, only the fruit. i may do a thread on this when i take some tomato cuts.
HeartIandhank
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Those little ornamental pepper plants might be fun.. easier to care for.. prbly would do better in a window too. Not sure how cold hardy the tricolor are, but they are pretty.
Dboi87
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dannyboy602
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Window light isn't nearly enough lumens to produce fruit but you'd get leaves and maybe your daughter would find it fun anyway. Even the leaves would be weak though so figure on having a struggling tomato plant until the holidays and then her interest will probably wane.
Bob Zmuda
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LOL. That was funny. Done the same shit. Put a zuchhini plant in a 25 gallon smart pot and fed it my cannabis regimen. Holy fuck. That thing was poppin out 2 liter soda bottle zuchinis. Shit looked like little shop of horrors. I don't even like zuchinis.Sure, lst the plant and trim the little hookers sucker shoots off and shed just make a vine. You can train it any why you want. Personally i wouldnt. I tell this to everyone who wants to try this. I did it once with a jalepeno plant in a dwc. It was six feet wide and i thought it was the coolest thing ever. Then i got mites on it and i was spraying a six foot wide 2 dollar a pound jalepeno plant with 150$ per gallon bug spray, well that and the amount of light, nutes, and work i put into keeping that thing alive. I did get a shit ton of jalepenos from it but it was maybe four pounds if i was lucky, so eight bucks worth?
Youd be better off going to whole foods and buying the organic top of the line heirloom tomatos i think. But hey, thats only my two cents. If you want to run like a vertical trellis up the side of a tent and vine it up like i was saying, go for it, all the power to ya.
Alienwidow
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Plant em next to the compost pile and the same thing happens. I love those things sautéed with onins and mushrooms with some pasta sauce on pene. Did someone say garlic toast?LOL. That was funny. Done the same shit. Put a zuchhini plant in a 25 gallon smart pot and fed it my cannabis regimen. Holy fuck. That thing was poppin out 2 liter soda bottle zuchinis. Shit looked like little shop of horrors. I don't even like zuchinis.
Jimmyjonestoo
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I too started my indoor venture with veggies. Im harvested a few tomatoes and a couple peppers but honestly wasn't worth the time and space. I have tho had good luck with herbs and bush beans indoors.
WestDenverPioneer
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Determinate and Indeterminate tomatoes exist. Most tomatoes will grow until the first frost.
I kept an indeterminate cherry going indoors for almost 4 years.
They CAN be kept small but not all varieties produce fruit off a small vine. You may need to play around with it and find what works for you. Cherries are usually the easiest to do indoors.
I kept an indeterminate cherry going indoors for almost 4 years.
They CAN be kept small but not all varieties produce fruit off a small vine. You may need to play around with it and find what works for you. Cherries are usually the easiest to do indoors.
thewanderer718
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I planted two red pearl tomato's in 5 gallon pots, was planning on building a small greenhouse but work always keeps me on the road. Its been about two months now and i still haven't got around to it, in my kitchen there are large glass doors that let in a ton of light so i put them there and was training the vines (also have broccoli, bambino carrots, scallions, and lettuce) Work had me out of town for the last few weeks so i tried to show my city wife what to do, came back today and the tomato vines are over 5 feet tall, there are a lot of flowers on the vines but only one or two tomato's starting to grow. Do they need more direct sunlight ? or just more time ?
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WestDenverPioneer
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For best results remove the vine sections that do NOT have flowers.
Leave only the parts that are flowering. The plant will put its energy there.
The vines without flowers are called "suckers". Get rid of the suckers.
Leave only the parts that are flowering. The plant will put its energy there.
The vines without flowers are called "suckers". Get rid of the suckers.
thewanderer718
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Thanks for the advice, I did it yesterday morning and today i notice the flowers seem to be opening up more.
WestDenverPioneer
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Once the flowers are open you will need to pollinate them. Some folks flick them. Tap them. Use a tuning fork. Whatever method you choose won't matter. Just get them pollinated and the flowers will turn into fruit.
thewanderer718
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Thanks again. I did as you suggested and cut all the suckers off and now the vine is shooting out flowers from everywhere. I will be home for a few days and it's not that cold yet, so i,m gonna sit it outside and see what happens. The last time i did this came home after being gone for a week and the caterpillars had almost striped it bare.
WestDenverPioneer
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I would recommend keeping it indoors and leaving it in one place. Leave it alone except for pruning suckers and fertilizing flowers.