2014-15 Winter Indoor Tomatoes... + sugar snaps and cucumber

[applestar]

Almost done with this thread -- but here are a couple of fruits from the Dwarf Arctic Rose including the biggest one which is pretty lumpy and ugly but HUGE

[Lindsaylew82]

Look at those!!!! I'd say this was a complete success! Even with the struggles.

Awesome looking produce there. I like the uglies!

How was flavor compared to outdoor tomatoes?

[applestar]

@lindsay, these Dwarf Arctic Rose fruits have excellent flavor for a winter indoor tomato. Definitely deep tomato flavor and zing. Difficult to get the sweetness when temperature is cold but since it's been hot lately, they have been more sweet.

I have three more mega fruits and about 1/2 dozen singles, but the most anticipated fruit I'm waiting for it to blush is a cross I made with Utyonok.

two singles in the truss with the three megas, and three more blushing below, and the one green medium sized Dwarf Arctic Rose x Utyonok fruit....

The other crosses I made with Maglia Rosa didn't develop ...and I would have had more fruits but one branch with 6 still-tiny green fruits on it broke off -- I suspect one of the cats pushed it over when trying to get on or off the windowsill.

[applestar]

DH picked up sandwiches from a newly discovered italian deli today. For me, he selected sliced roast turkey breast with avocado and mixed baby greens, red onions, and tomato, liberally sprinkled with dried oregano on focaccia bread. It looked wonderful until I noticed the "imitation tomato" -- you know the kind that actually look yellowish green to pale mealy pink, obviously gassed into forced color on the extreme outside epidermis of the skin?

I could not get rid of them fast enough ...luckily I had these REAL tomatoes to take their place.

[applestar]

I thought I'd post these photos --

* Winter Indoor Tatjana went down twice -- dried up all the way to the soil level due to TRM (tomato russet mites) and aphids. I put it outside under the trees with others after last frost for initial hardening off, and kind of forgot about it though it got watered along with everybody else in this group. It grew a new shoot and some fruits.
* Winter Indoor Dwarf Arctic Rose was still hanging on to life when I put it outside, and have grown one more fruit. I thought this is it ...though... I see a new side shoot.

[Lindsaylew82]

Amazing how resilient they are! I wonder if you are creating some seriously mite resistant strains of these plants that just keep on growing and growing! Are you gonna try to overwinter these same plants?

[applestar]

They grew And ripened one more fruit truss then gave up due mostly to foliage disease.

I have new seedlings started in the garage for this winter.

I'm not do sure the plants are resisting the mites -- I think it's more likely that there are predatorial mites, etc. outside that help control the TRM, and, because I'm not spraying to kill the mites in hopes that the predatory Garden Patrol are brought inside along with the plants in the fall, they are also present indoors.

[krinix]

Is it common for the lower leaves turning yellow on Sugar Snaps?