Saturday, May 21, 2016

Third Generation Tomato?

Nearly a month ago I took more cuttings of my tomato plant with hopes
of getting a jump on some tomato plants before the really hot Florida
temperatures bare down on this humble vegetable patch.

I was too generous with watering the cuttings that were placed directly
in some composted material only to to witness their sudden demise due
to too moist conditions setting up for a typical case of rot.



Perhaps second time, now a week into a second set of cuttings. There
are plenty of cuttings were these came from and hoping it's not to late
to start a new. This time these cuttings get one to two misting of water
from a spray bottle a day. Like I said it's been a week and it may not
look like it but they are looking a lot better than they did a few days
a go. We had some rains the last couple of days which brought some
cooler temperature which I think helped. Being under a carport helped
in controlling the amount of water the soil would have received had
they not and would have been back to square one.

Time will tell once again as is always the case.

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