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mass_burner
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Ah, the age old battle between man/hungry animals. I'll bet on the hungry animals.
mass_burner
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What's up with my tomatoes? Since the last harvest, no tomatoes are maturing. I got plenty of green, but they're not ripening. It's been warm/sunny lately.
mass_burner
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I think of all the reasons the expert tomato growers tout for not ripening tomatoes, this time of year it is the cool nights and short days.
Pepper plants are tropical ( or semi-tropical ) perennials so they can be dug up and potted if you get enough roots. It might be good to prune back the plant to match how much root gets pruned digging it up. Some pepper growers prune their peppers in early summer/spring to force more branches for more peppers. I've never tried it and some greenhouse growers prune the pepper way back for Winter dormancy and get a huge crop early the next year if the plant over-winters well.
I have a habenero and a jalapeno in 2 cubic yard pots to go in the greenhouse when it gets cold and maybe come inside when it gets too cold.
They won't like the short northern days but might make it.
Pepper plants are tropical ( or semi-tropical ) perennials so they can be dug up and potted if you get enough roots. It might be good to prune back the plant to match how much root gets pruned digging it up. Some pepper growers prune their peppers in early summer/spring to force more branches for more peppers. I've never tried it and some greenhouse growers prune the pepper way back for Winter dormancy and get a huge crop early the next year if the plant over-winters well.
I have a habenero and a jalapeno in 2 cubic yard pots to go in the greenhouse when it gets cold and maybe come inside when it gets too cold.
They won't like the short northern days but might make it.
mass_burner
Minister of Fire
If it doesn't drop the current flowers that were bee pollinated those might finish growing/ripening but the plant will likely go dormant despite any transplant shock.
But hey, some people get lemons to grow lemons up here so who knows ?!
mass_burner
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I have a dwarf lemon plant that grows delicious lemons December thru April/may.
I'll try one pepper plant, see what happens.
I'll try one pepper plant, see what happens.
Montanalocal
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Two inches if snow today, and temps in the teens tonight. Time to take in my Brussels Sprouts. They are one of my favorite plants to grow.
In the second picture, you can see how I top the growing point during the last two weeks of August. This stops the upward growth, and directs the growth into the sprouts, so that they get bigger.
What I am doing now is digging them out and repotting them into two gallon pots and putting them in my garage so they will not freeze hard. Notice I break all the leaves off. They will stay nice and fresh on the stalk most of the winter and we can come out and cut off as many as we need throughout the winter.
In the second picture, you can see how I top the growing point during the last two weeks of August. This stops the upward growth, and directs the growth into the sprouts, so that they get bigger.
What I am doing now is digging them out and repotting them into two gallon pots and putting them in my garage so they will not freeze hard. Notice I break all the leaves off. They will stay nice and fresh on the stalk most of the winter and we can come out and cut off as many as we need throughout the winter.
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mass_burner
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Bring them indoors and put them on a sunny shelf. Or dig out fried green tomato recipes.
Montanalocal
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For large amounts I used to put them in layers in cardboard boxes with newspapers between layers. This worked OK, but after thinking the process through, I changed my procedure. What you want to do with large amounts of tomatoes is to keep in and confine the ethylene gas given off, as this helps ripening.
Well, cardboard and newspaper are permeable to air movement. So what I do now is to put them in plastic containers such as plastic buckets and tubs. Then I loosely lay a plastic shopping bag over the top. I find they ripen faster this way. You have to go through and sort every 5 or 6 days.
Well, cardboard and newspaper are permeable to air movement. So what I do now is to put them in plastic containers such as plastic buckets and tubs. Then I loosely lay a plastic shopping bag over the top. I find they ripen faster this way. You have to go through and sort every 5 or 6 days.
pull up the whole plant, and hang it upside down. some people pull off the leaves, but I never do. They ripen up and stay nice and fresh, and you don't forget about them like you do in a bag!
mass_burner
Minister of Fire
mass_burner
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Looking ahead...next week will be in mid 60's, into mid/hi 70's. If the tomatoes make it tonight, would it be better to leave them through next week?
firefighterjake
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I don't garden, but the other day I did a favor for one of my Amish neighbors when I hauled some chicken feed from his farm to another family's farm. The other family offered to pay me something for my time and gas, but as usual I declined as I was just doing the neighborly thing. They did insist on me taking some sweet potatoes though . . . with a standing offer to come by for some more.
I was pretty much amused by the size of these things . . . and the fact that they grow here in Maine as I've never seen anyone locally grow sweet potatoes for whatever reason.
Incidentally, these are normal sized dinner plates -- not tea cup saucers or anything like that.
I was pretty much amused by the size of these things . . . and the fact that they grow here in Maine as I've never seen anyone locally grow sweet potatoes for whatever reason.
Incidentally, these are normal sized dinner plates -- not tea cup saucers or anything like that.
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Montanalocal
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firefighterjake
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I'll try to ask next time I see him. I do know they tasted just as good as the store-bought sweet potatoes . . . softened them up a bit in the microwave and then sliced them thin and fried them up in canola oil for a "healthy" side dish . . . well healthier . . . well marginally healthy.
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