Fan Leafs. Blockers of Light Or Energy Producers???

Uncle Ben said:

Local nursery stocks the Rodeo. I bought Big Beef seeds, they're up and sun bathing in the greenhouse. Also, I'd go with the recommendations of your local ag extension service. Near you there is an excellent supplier that I can highly recommend. It's where I got my specially Dutch bred greenhouse tomatoes - Trust and Arbason. They're catalog is like reading The Bible....it's huge with really hard to find items. http://www.johnnyseeds.com/

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Eden Brothers is another great source for seeds...sign up for their emailing list cause they do a lot of promotional sales....

http://www.edenbrothers.com/


And I guess while I am sharing links might as well share this one. Best wetting agent I have found too date. We even use it on the farm in certain situations.

http://www.arbico-organics.com/product/ThermX-70-quart/1402403

And they are a great source for predatory insects to control pests in your garden.

These kind of people who are full of shit but really want to come off like they have their shit together, as if thru their own personal experimentation they figured everything out including the things which defy logic. They never last very long here, they often get bored or banned.

Anyone remember Japanfreak? There were others but he was one of the ones, AFAIR, who was going on about similar bullshit like a year ago on here. You wonder if some of them are the same people with different user names.

Nullis said:

These kind of people who are full of shit but really want to come off like they have their shit together, as if thru their own personal experimentation they figured everything out including the things which defy logic. They never last very long here, they often get bored or banned.

Anyone remember Japanfreak? There were others but he was one of the ones, AFAIR, who was going on about similar bullshit like a year ago on here. You wonder if some of them are the same people with different user names.

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japanfreak had me so angry I think I woulda shot them...cant remember but it may have even been a chick

I'm just thankful that no clowns have proposed cutting off new shoots just to keep the plant small yet.. hahahaha

^What? You didn't see that thread? No, not really...

There was some tomato talk...
I just started some tycoon, celebrity, big beef, early girl, yellow pear... a couple grape and cherry varieties... a roma.. something else, i forget.
I think we are past having nights below 50F... I think it should be alright. Maybe a tad early.
Also picked up some purple tomatillos. I was wanting green but they were not at the nursery, I didn't feel like driving around. I love tomatillos. Tomatillo, jalapeno, garlic, lime juice... a couple spurts with the immersion blender. 2 minute fresh verde salsa. The same recipe works for a chips and salsa thing, tex mex, pasta sauce, over chicken/pork/beef. It's good warm, but the more you cook it the less desirable the flavor gets, imo. I never waste or need to gift the tomatillos. The fresh flavor is very sweet. You can go heavy or light on the garlic or peppers, but getting the perfect lime juice/tomatillo ratio is key. Without lime juice the sweetness is a little much.
They are super easy to grow. Big plants even in a small container. In a spacious raised bed they get enormous, very quickly. I'm curious to see how the purple compare to the green.

They are kind like Jalapenos though... I spend more growing them than I would at the store. When I was in a another region, getting quality tomatillo was impossible, so i grew them.

Blight problems? I have to spray the shit out of my tomatoes every year I've been at my current house. I am pretty much fed up with tomatoes and their weaknesses... I like the Brassicas. Easy to grow. Nothing significant fucks with them.
Now if someone can breed a decent tasting Brassica...

Apomixis said:

Blight problems? I have to spray the shit out of my tomatoes every year I've been at my current house. I am pretty much fed up with tomatoes and their weaknesses... I like the Brassicas. Easy to grow. Nothing significant fucks with them.
Now if someone can breed a decent tasting Brassica...

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Blossom end rot got me for a long time when growing in containers.

BHN 602 aka "Rodeo" is about as disease while being super delicious as any of them. Big Beef is also. Love tomatillos. Get them cheap at our grocer. Those green tomatillo based sauces are very common in Texas.

I've picked "a ton" of container tomatoes this winter. Non had blossom end rot which I've heard is either caused by water inconsistency and/or Ca deficiency. Well water is loaded with Ca.

Since this has become a tomato thread, here's a nice pic of what they're growing in the greenhouses at the college I work for.

My favorites are Black Krims. Love 'em!

PJ Diaz said:

Since this has become a tomato thread, here's a nice pic of what they're growing in the greenhouses at the college I work for.

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Tell 'em Uncle Ben recommends they stop the lollipop drills. They should be on a plate of spaghetti sauce, not in a salad.

UB

Uncle Ben said:

Tell 'em Uncle Ben recommends they stop the lollipop drills. They should be on a plate of spaghetti sauce, not in a salad.

UB

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I'm thinking that an award winning college horticulture department might know a little more than Uncle Ben, believe it or not. I know it's hard for you to understand.

Yummy yum yum

PJ Diaz said:

Yummy yum yum

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Now that's better, BUT, if it was my maters, I'd strip almost all of those leaves off. They're just getting in the way and creating air circulation problems. Right?

UB

My purple kush likes her leaves left on. A little over 5 weeks since switch to 12/12. I have 6 going altogether here's 3 and 3. All suckers left on till they die off. I try and keep them green and non butchered. Works for me!

cochroach said:

WTF CHUCK???
PLEASE DON'T TELL ON ME!!
fine I'll be your friend. Send another request.
Here is the rep you wanted, now please don't tell.

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Never knew you were an altar boy, good to know for future religious punchlines.

You guys are putting Rolli's delete function on overdrive , let's try to keep this thread alive since its the only "defol" thread left open under the AMC forum

And why is everyone posting tomato pics?? did I miss a memo~

im extremely pleased with the outcome of my defoliation experiment.... although it took 2 more weeks for them to finish, i got ALOT more buds, and they are much more dense, than previous grows and that was even AFTER i had been sniping, drying and tasting last two weeks

cannawizard said:

You guys are putting Rolli's delete function on overdrive , let's try to keep this thread alive since its the only "defol" thread left open under the AMC forum

And why is everyone posting tomato pics?? did I miss a memo~

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But why is this in the Advanced section when its clearly a misinformed noob method? It belongs in the noob section........

keebo3000 said:

im extremely pleased with the outcome of my defoliation experiment.... although it took 2 more weeks for them to finish, i got ALOT more buds, and they are much more dense, than previous grows and that was even AFTER i had been sniping, drying and tasting last two weeks [video=youtube_share;oecFdyBRjBI]http://youtu.be/oecFdyBRjBI[/video]

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That video made me laugh your ass off. Doubled your yield huh. What from one ounce too two?