^ They don't look local to me, imported from Korea or China?
Wife grew lovely tiny cherry tomatoes, no bigger than a grape, very tart but tasty fried with breakfast, I'll try find a picture, none at present but we live in far North where while hot in day cool at night. She had them on the ground in the shade of some other plants most of the day.If I find the seeds I'll post when I "catchup'.Perhaps I should search other threads but has anyone grown grapes good enough to eat in NW Thailand?
No Troy, both pics are of Thai produce. Tomatoes Take Me Home
Yeah sometimes they're not always that nice, I guess it depends on weather and other conditions. But the Take Me Home brand are always really good year-round. We were in Macro first when shopping this morning and their tomatoes looked sad to say the least, no worries though as Foodland was always going to be next stop anyway.
One can never have too many tomatoes. We cut ours into quarters and find that they last even longer.
American tomato plant in Ubon. The seeds went in on Aug. 23, just started setting tomatoes. The plants love this weather, and this thing will grow for the next 3 months. It will just keep growing until maybe 6 ft. away from the base the tomatoes start to get worthless, small and dry. The earlier ones will be big and delicious. This isn't my first year, at least 5 years I've been growing American tomatoes. They came from American seed grown by an American that pretty much makes them American. The weather has finally started cooling off a little, I think thats what triggers it to set tomatoes. I said on here before, you can grow delicious tomatoes here, I didn't say it was easy. What is easy is telling yourself that stuff you buy at Makro tastes almost as good.
Those do look healthy with plenty of flowers, I don't see any tomatoes yet.
For some reason mine did not do well, either the climate or the soil.
My first batch grew well, and flowered like yours, but nothing ever developed from the flowers, but that was over a month ago that the weather was still warm.
I have a couple of them going now, and one of them seems to be doing well.
The sooner you fall behind, the more time you have to catch up.
Good luck in your endeavours, BB.
My mom (with green thumb) tried growing tomatoes in our front yard. She was able to get a few fruits but ultimately gave up. Her tomatoes looked like the ones in Headwork's photo - oblong shape & slightly bigger than cherry tomatoes. That's the type that I usually see in open markets (here in PH). I rarely see the big (beefy) tomatoes. I think they are occasionally sold in supermarkets but at higher prices, and only during summer months.
If your Mom with a green thumb failed, there is no hope for me.
In the US, New York and Florida, I did well, here?
My friend who also lives here says "stick aa stick in the ground ant it grows into a tree" . It seems I have been able to reverse the process. I stick a tree into the ground and it turns into a stick, LOL
Tunk, its because the plant is putting to much energy into leaf growth. You need to pinch out the tops once they are say 3-4ft and then it'll divert to fruiting, once you have fruit mainly in the upper part start to remove most of the leaves and keep just a few per plant then to finish the remaining fruit.
@buck - my mom thinks that our area is too hot for tomato production. She's probably right, since most vegs sold in markets in my area come from towns farther away (more rural) and are in higher elevation/ cooler temp.
Over the years, she has grown eggplant, okra, patola (loofah/ gourd), squash, alugbati, mustard, pechay (relative of bokchoy), lime, kalamansi (small citrus), lettuce (the curly leaf lettuce, not the iceberg), atis (sugar apple), rambutan, coconut, etc.
Keep on keeping on. Good luck!
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