Black Sea Man - has nice sized fruit already, about the size of tennis balls. Healthy looking plant and it's planted in the Tomato Success Kit from Gardener's Supply. We'll call that TSK for the rest of this blog. Fertilizer 5-6-5 was applied mid May.
Blue Gold - aka Siberian -- Healthy plant in TSK. I just got around to fertilizing him today and when I was aerating the soil for the fertilizer to go through I discovered two inch long caterpillars of some sort in the soil. The bottom of the plant had holes in the leaves so clearly they were the culprits. They weren't horn worms though. After fertilizing I spread some organic slug killer down. No idea if that will help but what the hell. This one got PHC fertilizer today 8-10-10. Obviously higher in calcium. It will be interesting to see what the difference is. It's water soluble and you feed from above and it will soak through the container soil.
Chocolate Cherokee - full size tomato not the cherry - This plant is in my wooden wine barrel. It is off the hook! The stalks are about 3/4" thick and it is a strong, sturdy plant. Fruit is growing everywhere and I'm excited to see how big they get. Fertilized mid May with 5-6-5.
Jaune Flamme - not sure how I got talked into this one. It was "sold" to me by a Tomatomania staff member as a "early girl" replacement but it clearly is not. It's actually a golf ball sized tomato not a full sized. Disappointing as I have too many smaller fruiting plants. It's also a spindly thing. It's in the other wine barrel that was started with expensive organic amended soil but still it's a skinny thing. It has fruit and perhaps it knows I'm irritated with it? Flamme got 5-6-5 in mid May.
More later on the others.
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