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- From: "William H Shoemaker" <wshoemak AT illinois.edu>
- To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] pruning determinate tomatoes
- Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 12:58:41 -0600
I’ve grown Celebrity lots of times.
I’ve grown them pruned and unpruned. I’ve not seen anything like
what you described, UNLESS they have been exposed to herbicide drift. It sounds
like 2,4-D drift to me. Often, the drift is volatiles from an application
somewhere nearby, floating on air movement to your site, sometimes more than a
mile away. Tomatoes are very sensitive to it and the results are similar to your
description. 2,4-D is in many turf herbicides, agronomic herbicides and roadway
or right-of-way herbicides. You may want to consider whether that happened and
where it may have come from. Bill William H. Shoemaker Sr. Research Specialist, Food Crops 630-584-7254, FAX-584-4610 From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Curtis Millsap I grew Celebrity tomatoes in the greenhouse last year, and began
pruning them as I would other tomatoes (arbason, early girl, etc.), however I
got some very strange looking vines. Mostly I got vines that went nuts at
the top, producing tons of sprouts and leaves, and eventually lots of small
fruit. I also had a lot of vines which seemed to stop growing upward, and
so they had very few fruit. I realize that the determinates are a
different beast than the indet. , but I've never seen a reference to pruning
them dramatically differently. How do you all prune your indeterminates?
It is also possible that these problems were more related to the
extremely early and prolonged heat we had last season, and not as much the
pruning. Ideas or input? Thanks, Curtis Curtis and Sarah Millsap |
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[Market-farming] pruning determinate tomatoes,
Curtis Millsap, 02/11/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] pruning determinate tomatoes, MAsteveINE, 02/11/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] pruning determinate tomatoes,
William H Shoemaker, 02/11/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] pruning determinate tomatoes,
Willie McKemie, 02/11/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] pruning determinate tomatoes, William H Shoemaker, 02/11/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] pruning determinate tomatoes,
Willie McKemie, 02/11/2011
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: [Market-farming] pruning determinate tomatoes, sunnfarm, 02/11/2011
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