High Yield Tomato Plants: 50-80 lbs per Plant
Our favorite tomato variety: http://amzn.to/2b9Lrbk Learn how to get 50-80 lbs of tomatoes from every tomato plant. Planting a garden can be a lot of fun but get a harvest is really what it is all about. Follow these steps to dramatically improve your tomato harvest. 1. Buy the right plants for your area. Talk with the Master Gardener association or university agriculture extension in your area. 2. Lay plants on their side so the tips will grow upwards. 3. Dig a trench and bury all but the top 3 inches. 4. Add 1/4-1/2 cup slow release fertilizer, like cotton seed meal, Osmocote, etc., to the trench. 5. Build a 5 foot high 2 foot diameter cage around each plant. 6. Cover cage on the sides and on top with "floating row cover" (a light polyester material) or plastic to protect from wind and weather until plants are large and strong and weather is warm. 7. Weekly apply water soluble fertilizer, like Rapid Grow or Miracle Grow, through a hose-end fertilizer applicator on the leaves. 8. When plants have set their first cluster of fruit, side dress with two to three tablespoons of ammonium sulfate and water well. 9. Pick tomatoes when 30% ripe to avoid the birds from eating them. 10. Do not put tomatoes in the refrigerator. Keep on the kitchen counter.
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jeez, calling someone names and of course interjecting politics will certainly grow more tomatoes... on the subject of tomatoes , yield very much depends on the variety . Heirlooms taste wonderfully but if I get 20 lbs from a Cherokee Purple I've had a good year. I grow half a dozen heirlooms easy year with yields that vary.
Hay, getting 15 to 20 good tasting tomatoes per plant makes for a good garden year. -
why bother growing tomatoes if you don't pick them ripe? fish juice in the foliar will help the plant absorb the ammonium nitrate. also add mono ammonium phosphate to help fruiting. mineralise the soil with calcitic lime/oyster shells, calcium phosphate, and gypsum. kelp and trace elements round it out.
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yellow pair tomatos
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Wait, so do you still garden in the winter? Or is the plastic cover for seedlings until spring? Do you use pesticides? You've got a pretty cool setup here.
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what the best way to keep bugs away or kill them they kill all our plants squash Vine borers and red nymphs are a big problem here in TX
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this year I got my tomatoe plants to grow over 9 feet tall.I have no idea how many lb's I got off them.but it was alot its sept 10th and we still have tons of tomatoes
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Interesting video. Birds love lettuce, too. I'm beginning to love the idea of greenhouse gardening :+).
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the 2 inch by 4 inch openings in the cage seems too small. maybe 4 inch by 4 inch openings ???
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I see a lot of bush, but no fruit. can't see how those will get 80 lbs
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I don't see a single plant here capable of yielding 70 lbs. for reference, that's 140 .5lb tomatoes or 70 1b tomatoes.
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Your cage openings are only 2 inch by 4 inch, how can you get your hand in there, let alone retrieve a big tomato fruit, other than from the top of the cage, especially when the plant over grows your cage. Please don't post these videos claiming 50 to 80 lbs per plant, you are not a horticulturist. Even 6 inch by 6inch openings , by 24 inch diameter, 4 and half foot tall cages, may need internal support for heavily fruited plants. How's your prepping going, hehe?
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When I first get tomatoes, a little epson salt mixed in water helps give a boost.
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Most people have better result with organic fertilizers. Having all nutrients would better than having 7 things plants need and then giving it extra of something already in the ferts. What about manganese, sulfur etc. Most chemical ferts don't even have iron or very basic important things.
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fucking bullshit. not a single ripe tomato on a vine. not even a breaker. shit looks like my garden. and I won't get 50lbs per plant....
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first time growing heirlooms from Tomato Bob website.... man are they growing fast and producing fruit like crazy. I bought bare foot plants... try seeds next season.... Michigan is a challenge for starting early.... built a mobile green house on a heavy duty cart (1400lbs cap.) Start in the garage with lights and warming mats.... going to be a fun and exciting growing season in 2017.
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Thank you very helpful.... nothing better then a serious tomato man....
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inorganic fertilizers cause algae blooms in the lakes and rivers across America (just look at Florida right now). I highly recommend you try Dr Earth or Gardenbloom all purpose fertilizer, mixed w/ epsom salt and AZOMITE (minerals) in the SAME proportions you used in your mix. Mid season, (about 2 weeks after the solstice, I mix 1/2 bloom, and 1/2 all purpose (higher middle number) to encourage more flowers vs more vegatative growth (more fruit not vine) (continue the minerals and ep salt) Your mix w/ the organic fertilizer replacement has given me DOUBLE the tomatoes and half the plants. Using your pruning techniques and a soil mix w/ microrhizea as well, helped to double my yield. Thanksyou all.
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You're so full of shit... you lie so much all the time... even you believe it... you couldn't get 10 pounds off one plant... you and Hillary should hook up!
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Instead of laying the plant on it's side for a day or so to increase root system simply remove lower leaves and plant it deeper
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an better way to keep the birds away from eating your tomatoes is put a bird bath out, they are looking for a source of water
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