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Boise City, Oklahoma, USA

I seen your diary post, I would've gotten those twins separated sooner than later... but they are all looking nice and solid. The 7.18's like to turn into trees and fall over at about a foot or so. :) Bravo. The clone is coming up on a week, never flagged, and is seeing some light now. That's one out of eleventy-zillion I need....

3/7/2010 1:46:14 PM

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I've got a little experience seperating tomato seedlings. :)
I grew and sold thousands of them each year.
They are looking just they way I like them, short, stocky and with not much distance between nodes. They won't fall over when they're a foot tall, I'll make sure they keep growing just as they are. I'll keep the DIF cool days and warm nights which helps keep tomato seedlings from stretching. I had a rough time with that my first year in the greenhouse bedding plant business. I grew my tomatoes as I normally would and then when the temps in the greenhouse rose the reached for the sky. I had a few hundred seedlings that were tall and lanky. Although healthy, not the ideal plant for sales. What I'd like to do is find the time to finish a hydroponic unit to grow them in by the time the nights warm up enough to put them in the greenhouse, then I'll get phenominal growth rates and lots of suckers to propogate.
I've been watching your diary. Very nice. You have your work cut out for you to take the OK state record. ;)
I can fall just below that. LOL
Nick raised the bar pretty high but I gotta keep on tryin.

3/7/2010 6:28:29 PM

Boise City, Oklahoma, USA

The current WORLD record tomato is 7.75# by Gordon Graham of Edmond OK. So the OK record is the WORLD record... high bar.

Mr. Nick Harp sure did a number, his is the fourth heaviest documented ever... and man those plants are going!

I started some air layer attempts, here's hoping.

3/7/2010 10:58:17 PM

Boise City, Oklahoma, USA

Clonex will make a LEAF root! Tried it to see. The first clone is at a week and starting to grow and I think it's happy. Hoping the air layering takes.

3/8/2010 8:37:54 PM