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    Use Starke G in the hole before the plant goes in and sprinkle some around the base of the plant after a month or so. You can buy in little bags like pictured or zip lock bags. It's always purple but colour varies from one company to the next.

    And shade cloth helps around midday to early afternoon.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Buckaroo Banzai View Post
    Come August/September, everyone had so many, we could not give them away.
    Nice meaty ones that were full of sugar and delicious to eat of the vine with just a bit of salt.
    I am currently overrun with fantastic, sweet tomatoes.

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    look like heirlooms?

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    Quote Originally Posted by aging one View Post
    look like heirlooms?
    Yes, many of them are. They always taste the best!

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    Must just be me but I don't mind the local tomatoes and buy them to enjoy every week.
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    Then there's these too that are always good if the loose offerings as pictured above don't look appealing that week.
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    ^ They don't look local to me, imported from Korea or China?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Headworx View Post
    Must just be me but I don't mind the local tomatoes and buy them to enjoy every week.
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    Then there's these too that are always good if the loose offerings as pictured above don't look appealing that week.
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    Though a bit on the small side, those don't look too bad. Unfortunately they are not always easy to find in my are (Khon Kaen). I never found any that look as good as the ones in your picture.

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    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?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Troy View Post
    They don't look local to me, imported from Korea or China?
    No Troy, both pics are of Thai produce. Tomatoes Take Me Home

    Quote Originally Posted by Buckaroo Banzai View Post
    I never found any that look as good as the ones in your picture.
    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by david44 View Post
    Wife grew lovely tiny cherry tomatoes, no bigger than a grape...
    Unfortunately, living in a condo stops me growing anything. But there's normally always tiny tomatoes in the fridge for salads or just to eat like grapes as a snack. Couple of pics of the local brand we buy and with one cut in half, they're delicious!

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    One can never have too many tomatoes. We cut ours into quarters and find that they last even longer.

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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tunk View Post
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    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.
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    The sooner you fall behind, the more time you have to catch up.

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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by katie23 View Post
    My mom (with green thumb) tried growing tomatoes in our front yard. She was able to get a few fruits but ultimately gave up.
    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

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    Quote Originally Posted by tunk View Post
    It will just keep growing until maybe 6 ft. away from the base the tomatoes start to get worthless, small and dry.
    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.

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    @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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    Quote Originally Posted by bsnub View Post
    It is too hot in LOS to grow tomatoes. I grow them every year here in the Summer. When the temps get over 90f/32c the plants tend to drop their blossoms. Maybe if you tried to shade them with netting, they would do better?

    Good luck!
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    Quote Originally Posted by malmomike77 View Post
    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.
    I know I should trim, but I am always fascinated at how big a tomato plant will get in a tropical country. This year my plan is to trim and get fewer, better quality tomatoes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Buckaroo Banzai View Post
    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.
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    I only have 3 small tomatoes set so far, but Winter arrived a couple days ago and I think that will help. This morning it is a very comfortable 68 degrees.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Buckaroo Banzai View Post
    Finding good, big tomatoes in Thailand is next to impossible. The climate is too wet, and there is no market for them , but to a good Greek American Boy , nice beefcake tomatoes is a summer rite of almost religious significance. Some try to get classer to God trough communion, I do it with a nice Tomato and Cucumber salad with chunks of Feta cheese and an Olive oil, vinegar and oregano dressing.
    So I have joined the ranks of those who have indevoured to bring civilization to the wilds of Thailand and cultivate the wily and elusive beefsteak tomato. I extensively researched the issue by watching a video on YouTube (well not all of it it was 5 min long) . I Made a raised bed out of precast building columns.
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    Filed it with dirt, and paint it dark brown to match the house, 'cause a well decorated vegetable bed is the most important part of growing tomatoes IMO.
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    I have been told that September is the best time in Thailand to start your tomato seeds, and I just started the seeds another member of this forum was kind to mail to me, and I will be planting them as soon as they sprout, but in the mean time a friend of my wife gave her a bunch of small tomato plants that I planted a couple of weeks ago along with peppers, eggplants, some other leafy plants my wife uses when cooking (dont know the names) dill from seed and basil that is sprouting nicely. Oh!! and a bunch of those long string beans up against the fence .
    The tomato plant I was given are doing good so far , more than half of them have grown to over 24" and a couple of them are flowering (keeping my fingers crossed).
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    Here is some you are welcome to ignore. Bottom pic, first plant. See the way the stem is running maybe 3 inches parallel with the soil. Add 1 inch of soil around that tomato and you will gain 3 inches of new root. You can add a lot of root area to a plant.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Buckaroo Banzai View Post

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    You can ignore this or not, “up to you”, but those tomatoes are too close together. Nothin you can do about it now but in the humidity of Thailand I would have at least 2 feet between plants.

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