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digitS'
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I sure made a "believer" out of DW. She sometimes wonders what the heck I'm up to with regards to comfort zones for the plants. The most severely damaged were the few Kimberley plants I have. They are the ones for that cross-breeding idea that turned into an effort in digitS' futility but is one special variety from just over the hill and border ... Canadian, that is. I described it here on June 1 of last year, A Very Early Tomato.
I'm not really familiar with determinants. All the indeterminates have that grow thru damage quality, @journey11 talks about.
Strangely, the variety that seems to have the most cold sensitivity are the infant Bloody Butchers. What a ridiculous tough guy name! They do have the tough it thru "personality" once they are out in the garden but straight out of the greenhouse, not so much.
It was after I'd gotten really into this tomato growing a few years ago, so I had 20 plus varieties. I'd taken them out of the greenhouse and installed them in a hoop house, with no real plans for heat. So, they'd gone from never colder than 60º - to whatever it was gonna be, that first night. Turned out that it was 37º.
I know it was 37º in there for those Bloody Butchers because they were sitting right beside the remote thermometer. There were plenty of damaged leaves on plants anywhere near the plastic film covering. But in the center of that hoop house where the thermometer and Bloody Butchers were, those plants died. The only variety that did! All the others recovered!
There was some kind of lesson there. I'm telling you, the right sort should be in charge of naming tomato varieties!! Bloody Butcher is a super performer in the garden with never a problem but as an infant, he's a Molly Coddle ...
Steve
just back from checking the George Foreman grill keeping some of the tomatoes warm, and there is frost on that roof again this morning
I'm not really familiar with determinants. All the indeterminates have that grow thru damage quality, @journey11 talks about.
Strangely, the variety that seems to have the most cold sensitivity are the infant Bloody Butchers. What a ridiculous tough guy name! They do have the tough it thru "personality" once they are out in the garden but straight out of the greenhouse, not so much.
It was after I'd gotten really into this tomato growing a few years ago, so I had 20 plus varieties. I'd taken them out of the greenhouse and installed them in a hoop house, with no real plans for heat. So, they'd gone from never colder than 60º - to whatever it was gonna be, that first night. Turned out that it was 37º.
I know it was 37º in there for those Bloody Butchers because they were sitting right beside the remote thermometer. There were plenty of damaged leaves on plants anywhere near the plastic film covering. But in the center of that hoop house where the thermometer and Bloody Butchers were, those plants died. The only variety that did! All the others recovered!
There was some kind of lesson there. I'm telling you, the right sort should be in charge of naming tomato varieties!! Bloody Butcher is a super performer in the garden with never a problem but as an infant, he's a Molly Coddle ...
Steve
just back from checking the George Foreman grill keeping some of the tomatoes warm, and there is frost on that roof again this morning
dirt and damaged seedlings in a mess. now i have 6 different varieties i don't know which is which since the tags got knocked out of the pots, and 2 extra pots of 'mixed' types that only a few have their roots and the rest are the tops that broke off. 
