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Saturday, April 09, 2011
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shazzy
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Joliet, IL
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and the tomato line-up is set with successful germination of all the following 6 crosses. 7.33 hunt (5.0 timms self), 5.35 lyons (3.9 catapano self) , 5.18 lyons (7.18 harp self), 4.25 lyons (5.0 timm self) and 3.08 shenoha (5.58 timm 3rd generation) so far so good with the little ones that were started on saturday and all but 4 popped out of 72 pots. all pots except mine had only one seed per pot. my seeds were tripled up in each pot for insurance and the strongest wins the pot. i have already reduced the number of pots to 64. the weakest plants early out that can't even come close to shedding their little seed coats have been terminated. the seed coats on some promising sprouts need a little help with a spray bottle and tweezers to remove the coat. from these 64 i will reduce to 56 with the strongest getting transplanted into 5" pots with half patch soil/half juiced up mother earth's potting soil mix. from these 56 i will choose the most vigorous of each cross as my own. some of the other top genetics will go to other extreme gardeners like george janowiak and my work buddy mark mills. mark grew a 3.10 off a gordon graham i gave him last year and beat me by .02 in our bragging rights contest and he won 2nd place with a 2.73 pounder at pesche's garden center yearly tomato contest in mt. prospect. too bad we didn't find out about the contest until we already removed the seeds from my 3.08 and his 3.10 or we would have won first and second. this has earned him a 7.33 hunt and 5 of the others too. he will get the 2nd best of each plant cross and i expect some big things from him again this year. my parents and their neighbors will get some of my crosses for eaters. then the rest will be given away in the 2nd annual bobby's tap giant tomato contest.
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