Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 25 Entries. Thursday, February 28 View Page Finally, one female opened on the two back-up plants. Female flowers kept aborting until fertilizer was changed to 20-30-20, 5 days after first feeding of 20-30-20 first new females opened. Also yellowing leaves problem seemed to have been solved by application of ironite mineral supplement as recommended by JohnVT Wednesday, July 9 View Page Leaf Damage Wednesday, July 9 View Page Leaf with Bug Wednesday, July 9 View Page Bug close up Monday, July 28 View Page Actually it was VTJohn who recommended epson soak for plot. Friday, August 1 View Page Found frass on the back up plant today, upon closer look found main vine had a 3" split and frass. Found six places where the #&%$#@ svb have been. Did some surgery and managed to remove three intact larvae and I think I was able to at least skew the other three with my pick and a thin wire. I let the wounds dry in the sun for an hour or so then packed the wounds with captan paste. I will now hope for the best. Saturday, August 2 View Page Continued to bury the rest of the vines last. Back plant # 1 looking well after I dug out svb grubs yesterday. Another female open this morning, I let the bees pollinate Ripped out the main plant today, which never grew, it was about 12 foot long single vine. Found svb grub at many leave nodes and almost no roots. Will start spraying with malathion much earlier next year plus will till grub killer in to patch for next year. Wednesday, August 13 View Page Vine surgery for svb seems to have gone well, vines where they were dug out are dry and firm. First sign of powdery mildew showed up four days ago, sprayed with captan that night, of course it rained, resprayed next evening with captan again. PM seems to have spread to a few more leaves as of today, read through the boards and it seems spaying the plants with a 10% solution of milk is helpful in controlling PM, sprayed top and bottom of all leaves with the milk solution, we shall we see. Wednesday, August 13 View Page As of today I have one set on the back up vine CI= 32" EE= 23" SS= 23" OTT = 78 control plant started on June 1 has three pollinated on the main vine, all three continue to be shiny, but still not sure if any are set yet. Thursday, August 14 View Page Back up vine CI 34 EE 24 SS 24 OTT 82 Friday, August 15 View Page Back up vine - pollinated Aug. 1 CI 37 EE 26 SS 26 OTT 89 Saturday, August 16 View Page c = 39 s = 27 e = 27 ott = 93 Sunday, August 17 View Page Back -up c = 40 e = 28 s = 28 ott = 96 I have three flowers now pollinated on the control plant over the past 4 days, the first is the size of a baseball now, keeping my fingers crossed. Sunday, August 17 View Page Aug. 14 sprayed plants with milk again, seems to be halting the spread of the PM Aug. 15 Noticed the the worst of the powdery mildew infection was centered around and on the oldest leaves. Decided the patch was better off with out those leaves, so I cut them away, bagged them and in the trash they went. We will see, seemed like a good idea at the time. Aug. 16 Continue to bury vines. Sprayed the plants with Malathion. Watered with 20 gallons 10-10-10 Aug.17 Buried vines again and watered 60 gallons. Monday, August 18 View Page Sprayed with milk again today = 3 sprays in 9 days Back up c = 42 e = 29 s = 29 ott = 100 Tuesday, August 19 View Page Back-up c = 45 e = 30 s = 30 ott = 105 Wednesday, August 20 View Page Back-up c = 46.5 s = 31 e = 32 ott = 109.5 Thursday, August 21 View Page Bought another hose and soaked the plot, no more carrying water. Saw frass on the vine while watering, dug 4 or 5 svb out of the vines again. Sprayed the plants with 20% milk solution today for the PM. Milk seems to have limited the spread of the PM to only the leaves that were infected from the begining. Back-up c = 48 s = 32 e = 32.5 ott = 112.5 Friday, August 22 View Page yesterday I also fertilized 20 gallons 18-18-21 Back-up c = 52 s = 32 e = 33 ott = 115 Control plant has one about the size of a softball on it now. Other main on the back-up has three going, one on each tine of the tridents fork. Which formed after the raccoon ate the end of the plant, we ended up very sick as I had just sprayed Malathion evening before. Friday, August 22 View Page No giants here, just tall plants on a trellis. The ladder in the picture is a 5' step ladder also note the plants grow in 5 gallon buckets. Friday, August 22 View Page Back up plant OTT 115 Friday, August 22 View Page It's not much, but it's mine. Will double the size for next year. Tuesday, August 26 View Page Better picture of the tomatoes Back-up c = 56 s = 36 e = 37 ott = 129 Control plant = almost bowling ball now Wednesday, August 27 View Page Back-up C = 58 S = 36 E = 38 OTT = 132 Saturday, August 30 View Page Back-up s = 38 e = 39.5 c = 61 OTT = 138.5