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Question by Rusty: Tips for growing tomatoes?
So i was growing tomatoes from seeds but everything went wrong. I started them in small trays with seedling soil mix. Soon all the seeds sprouted and were doing fine. However, when they reached about an inch and a half in height some fell over and died. Now everyday more die in the same way, they look great when i leave in the morning, some even starting to get a third leaf, but when i come home they’ve fallen over, wilted, and died. Why is this happening all of a sudden? I have them indoors by the window so its not cold thats doing it.
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Answer by Star
Get a top seed turbon thing it grows them upside down, saves all the trouble from tilling soil and wilting plants. Its amazing try it
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Any idea how long before they start turning color? I’ve had some huge fruit for awhile now, and the shoulders are starting to turn a darker green, but Not a speck of red or maroon at all!
(And thanks for putting this up! Great info!)
Thanks so much for responding!
Having two in the pot does make them compete. The cherries are smaller and get to size. The Kim’s will be smaller so I’d pick them.
I have my black krim sharing a large pot with a husky cherry red tomato. The cherries are doing really well but the krim don’t seem to be getting any bigger than about half the size of yours. They seem pretty ripe. Should I pick them now? Will the next fruit produce bigger or is it because they are sharing a pot with another tomato plant?
Yep plant leaves curl for various reasons. It isn’t something to worry about if you are sticking with a good watering and feeding routing. Container tomatoes curl, in my opinion, more then earth planted tomatoes. In any cause it is just there response to environmental factors. Not much we can do. But it won’t hurt the plant.
the leaves on my black krim tomato plants are curling this year. And I noticed your plant seems to be doing the same thing. is this because of high temperatures?
We’re touching into 90+ temps right now. Fortunately tomorrow it’ll back down to 90 tops, then a little less thereafter. I layered on some mulch over the top of the soil, to help avoid soil splash during rain and help retain soil warmth overnight. The Black Krim plant is finally “launching” itself into more aggressive growth and I’m letting it branch out. It’ll be interesting to see how tall it gets, being a potted plant. Longer support struts are next! 😉
Excellent. You enjoy it. High heat does get it but it is worth growing. Good luck.
We’ve been pretty mild up here (northern NJ), so I don’t think it was heat in my case. I’m just wondering if it might be the stage, where sometimes a plant may end up aborting flowers because it needs to produce more foliage. I lucked out with one early tomato and that’s it. A yellow boy growing adjacent has 2 nice ones just passing ping pong ball size, and two more just started about the size of blueberries right now.
I was given ripened fruit from this variety last year by a co-worker. I successfully saved the seeds in a fermentation method. And this year it is the biggest tomato plant variety I have going!
Sometimes the heat messes up tomato setting with the flowers if it happens to be around 90 there. The Krim got beat up by the heat when it hit 90+. But before that it was doing great with great tasting tomatoes.
From about an 8″~12″ black krim seedling, how many weeks will it usually be before the plant begins to produce fruits in earnest? Mine started with one very early on (it’s now about 3/4″ tennis ball size), but since then blooms have been aborting. Even a new fruit that started ended up aborting. Is this common when the plant is young? I took some photos so you can see:
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I’m crazy about Kumato tomatoes, but I haven’t found places where I can buy seedlings. The Black Krim looked to be somewhat similar, so I bought a seedling of that variety. Mine managed to start producing a fruit very early on, about 3/4 the size of a tennis ball now. Blossoms appear but dry up. In one case a fruit started but then aborted about the time I got the idea to spray apple juice. Not sure if that was a coincidence or a mistake!
Your tomato looks so delicious! I wish I could find this variety in my local hardware store. I did buy the Cherokee purple tomato at Home Depot & I am very excited since this is the only most exotic variety I’ve seen ever at Home Depot. It’s always the usual varieties from early girl to beef steak, blah blah blah. Gary, I would like to get those Aussie tomatoes too. Those are incredible!
Wow thats great you drug stores have tomato varieties. I started growing my own because of the lack of a selection.
Thanks. I found this plant last year at a drug store…..CVS in Santa Rosa, California. It was fabulous. Found 4 plants there again yesterday.
You did well if you kept in going in your heat. Id be curious how Amanda Orange tastes. Not heard of that variety.
I happened upon this herloom at a nursery, and brought it home. Awsome flavor and texture, beautiful colors as well. It’s worth growing. So i went out and found the seeds and THis year I’ll try Cherokee purples and Amanda oranges with my Black krims. I’m in zone 3-2 and It did very well as long as you water well everyday.
It is a great tomato for flavor and color. Ive used it in tacos too and you can tell you have an heirloom too in it.
I grew three Black Krim plants this year. The fruits are just starting to be ripe, and they turned out quite good! I like them for sandwiches and tacos, the flavor really stands out. Once I get a greenhouse I’ll never buy tomatoes again.
Its a great tomato. It might crack a little but heirlooms do that. It will still taste great.
i was given a Black Krim so will now be looking forward to the harvest… thanks for the information!
That is a great one too. I actually forgot to do cherokee seedlings this year. I have to find a plant or get one in later.
Cherokee Purple Tomatoes is my fav black tomato…. tastes so salty~
It can. July and August here are Hot and Humid. Maryland zone 7. It’s a good tomato. I have had trouble with Russia tomatoes because of heat and stopped growing them. But Krim seems to do okay.
try transporting them to bigger pots. their rots are most likely suffocating. another option is that you are over or under watering them. you have to be pretty precise about the exact amount of water for seedlings.
Tomato plants need sun, heat and airflow. They need temperatures from 70 to 85 during the day. A fan blowing low will give some airflow.