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dpack
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so far so good
from a plug the size of my thumb end to roots filling a 2" propagator cell with seed compost and growing 3 times the leaf area and height on top is rather impressive.
they are now in deep 7" pots with innes N3, as the weather is 9c min overnight they are also having their first sleep out.
with some toms that would have been a month's worth of development in the conditions they have had for a week
pampered, a bit, treated carefully ,yep but mostly down to really good F1 genetics.
iirc creating the seed is a matter of crossing 2 stable strains to give a beasty big , ace eating but non stable offspring.
by stable i mean if you have a patch of them and bees do their thing and you plant seed from your toms, next year's toms are like last year's ones.
iirc both parents are pretty ok but nowt special, the cross is rather unusually vigorous and the tomatoes are better than either mum's or dad's ones.
plant genetics is fun even if mum or dad can be one plant, 2 plants in both or either direction or oops here comes some random pollen or even stuff that i think i will clone myself and snap off an arm
re the plugs the supplier of those was pot and grow , based in scunthorpe and they have an ebay presence so you don't have to visit
they might have sold out of big boys as we got 6 of the last dozen of lots but if that is the quality they work to they are worth a thought for plugs, domestic or even small commercial
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