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Zone 10b. Got two colorful hybrid tomatoes doing really well, but started a bit late so no blushing on the fruit. One purple Cherokee I'm actually pruning properly instead of these other two bushy guys. Mel's mix has proven to be a very good container soil mixture, but I really only used chicken manure instead of 4-5 different composts. Hoops I've got on my plants are very stupid, should've considered better scaffolding at the beginning. It's going to be a problem later
Cherokee tomatoes go absolutely crazy blessings be upon your tomato patch
That's the small plant on the right I got started way later when uppotting these other two. Just need to get these through the nutty summer heat here and then hopefully smooth sailing all the way until Dec!
Cherokee purple made me love fresh tomatoes.
I've had the best luck with stakes and ties for my tomatoes in the past as opposed to cages. I hear that a Florida(?) weave (two posts with strings horizontally every foot or so between them) works quite well also.
Yeah I think I'm gonna get some long bamboo and figure something out. Probably leave the hoops and try to give each pot it's own support, so I can continue to shuffle these around if I want. Luckily I think the heat is gonna be stunting them (besides the fact that they're real bushy), so no worries about new support for awhile (but I need some gd finished fruit)