Starting tomato seeds today....

[Budley Doright]

I usually start by soaking seeds 24 hours....


Here is my list....

Biguns....

pink brandywine
black krim
cherokee purple
porterhouse
rutgers
big beef
steak sandwich
early girl


littleuns....

sun gold
juliet
sweet million
chadwick
sweet baby girl
super sweet 100
sugary
megabite


specialty toms...

marglobe
opalka
sanmarzano
principe borghese




peppers tomorrow maybe....

sweetuns....

california wonder
revolution
giant marconi
new ace
margarets
lady bell
carmen

warmeruns....scoville

pepperocini.. 100-500
mariachi...... 500-600
hot lemon.... 5k-30k
jala pena..... 2-8k
match box... 30k+
thai hot.......50k-100k
cajun bell.....<1k
giant hot thai.50k-100k
ancho.........1-2k



cukes soon....

correntine (parthenocarpic- p)
cucino (p)
sugar crunch (mostly female)
diva (p)
diamont (p)
sweeter yet (gynoecious -all female)
iznik (p)
marketmore (std cuke)


This will be my first year to grow the parthenocarpic cukes....

no need for bees or hand pollination...... no male pollen needed.....

good for greenhouses too.....




This year my general goal is to reduce these 3 veggies types about in half.......



Im starting generally 8 seeds to fill 6 spots in my seed trays.....


Its going to be busy.....


Ive got a bunch of fruit trees to graft.....


300 asparugus plants coming.....variety millenium

some cool new strawberries called mara des bois......


lots of fun stuff.......



good luck all.......

 

[DocLeaf]

All the best for this season

 

[fuzzymuffin]

This will be my first year to grow the parthenocarpic cukes....

no need for bees or hand pollination...... no male pollen needed.....

good for greenhouses too...

They must be self pollinating then, I take it?

 

[Budley Doright]

They must be self pollinating then, I take it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenocarpy

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In botany and horticulture, parthenocarpy (literally meaning virgin fruit) is the natural or artificially induced production of fruit without fertilization of ovules. The fruit is therefore seedless. Stenospermocarpy may also produce apparently seedless fruit, but the seeds are actually aborted while still small. Parthenocarpy (or stenospermocarpy) occasionally occurs as a mutation in nature, but if it affects every flower, then the plant can no longer sexually reproduce but might be able to propagate by vegetative means.

 

[Budley Doright]

And you can see they arent the self pollinating types....

they simply dont need pollin to produce fruit....

this is a key thing for indoor or greenhouse grown cukes....


however the cost of the seeds range from a little more than normal cukes to semi outragious.... at about a buck per seed......


Plants are gynoecious (all-female) and parthenocarpic (grow fruits without pollination).


Normal cukes tend to put out several male flowers prior to their first female.....


so these parthenocarpy cukes will be very early.....


Diva was an aas award winner recently and is fairly inexpensive.....

 

[shorty68]

want to grow my own veggies

want to grow my own veggies

hello, thought id try to sprout sum manitoba tomatos from seed. have soaked seeds for 24hr. starting to see tail come out cool.now do i plant seed as i would other plants and put into clone dome with heat mat. IS THIS THE CORRECT METHOD?

 

[GHCOLL]

good luck, nothing like homegrown tomatoes.