Tomatoes
Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2022 7:32 pm
A wee question for you clever folk! (I did warn you this would continue)!
I am on my 3rd sowing of tomatoes - not all, most are fine; but a couple of the beefsteak are not playing. They grow fine but the first leaves up just don't shed the seed casing. If I leave them they just shrivel & die, if I try to pick them off it damages the first leaves & they die. Seed is in date & conditions the same as the other successful ones (& not from China). I don't know if related but 2 of them have also come up with twin stems even though definitely just one seed planted.
I've a couple of ideas like incorrect storage by supplier but never ever had an issue with them before; or the fruit the seeds were taken from where they somehow got contaminated before collecting, but no-one else mentioning problems? They are not F1's. I am currently just re-sowing in the hope for success but I don't think it is going to work. Was my compost contaminated; but the other toms are growing fine although it was a little rough I sieved it?
All ideas welcomed but I have chosen 2 other varieties which I will be sowing alongside as backup - it will be feast or famine at the end though! Cheers in advance!
I am on my 3rd sowing of tomatoes - not all, most are fine; but a couple of the beefsteak are not playing. They grow fine but the first leaves up just don't shed the seed casing. If I leave them they just shrivel & die, if I try to pick them off it damages the first leaves & they die. Seed is in date & conditions the same as the other successful ones (& not from China). I don't know if related but 2 of them have also come up with twin stems even though definitely just one seed planted.
I've a couple of ideas like incorrect storage by supplier but never ever had an issue with them before; or the fruit the seeds were taken from where they somehow got contaminated before collecting, but no-one else mentioning problems? They are not F1's. I am currently just re-sowing in the hope for success but I don't think it is going to work. Was my compost contaminated; but the other toms are growing fine although it was a little rough I sieved it?
All ideas welcomed but I have chosen 2 other varieties which I will be sowing alongside as backup - it will be feast or famine at the end though! Cheers in advance!