You're so welcome Harold! It was nice to meet you and your wife! I hope they do well for you! We're going to have them growing all over Phoenix in many different microclimates - awesome!

A big thanks to Kelly from me as well. It's always nice to put a face with a name and on-line conversations....but I didn't get to meet Yankee darnnit. The tom is planted and looking sprightly.

Anytime McP. Jayne asked me to drop her tomato to you so maybe when I do I'll bring Yankee....

Oh yes, please do. LMK what works for you.

Planted mine today. But I did remove the peat pot before doing so. I've had poor results planting anything in a peat pot.

I peeled most of mine off too, Harold...

hmmmm, here's the first part of our experiment....I did not.

Well, to make it even more interesting, I plan to remove the bottom of the styro cup and bury the whole thing. Gonna leave about 20 - 25% of the plant above ground.

How is everyone's Phoenix coming along. Here it is in its bucket.

Wow Jayne! Are you feeding yours steroids? Mine is doing well but not that well....good job.

The Sioux I got from Dan has hard green balls on it....the Zapotec from you is a monster, lots of vegetative growth and flowers but not fruit yet.

The Mexicana, also from you, is doing well.

Sun Leaper is unimpressive as is Red Alert. We'll see if they come up to speed with hotter temps coming in.

I'll get some pictures later.

Looks great Jayne... I think McP is right - wanna share your secret growth formula - lol? Mine are both doing well with blossoms. They seem to be growing faster now that it's warmer. I'll see if I can get a good pic later today. All my other 'maters seem to be doing well, including the Bloody Butcher that looked half dead for a while - lol.

I used that secret sauce I got from that little ole shop up on Bell Rd.

That store has lots of secret sauces. Spill Chica.

Yup - spill it - lol...

ok...ok Humic Acid. I sprayed my entire garden including my fruit trees with it. Remember Mary, Carl Seacat said he fertilizes with fish and humic acid when the temperatures start to go up. I have a blend of fish and kelp from Neptune's Harvest that I like because it is made with a cold press process to preserve the goodies that the heat processing of the cheaper brands destroy. I had to get that online. And, I have read in several places that plants sprayed with kelp make it through the heat of the summer better. I used it last summer and thought that it did help.

Thanks for the info Jayne. Worth looking into if it's working for you!

Very interesting info. I have some kelp foliar feed stuff from Garden's Alive. http://www.gardensalive.com/ar... It doesn't say if it's cold processed.

Also have a powder from them called 'Surround'. When you spray it on the plant it forms a barrier film, which acts as a broad spectrum crop protectant for home, landscape and garden use for controlling damage from various insects, mites and disease pests, growth enhancer and as a protectant against sunburn and heat stress.

I bought it because it says it deter grasshoppers, secondarily becauseof the sunburn protection. I never got enough of a crop to try it in earnest. Maybe this season.

Humic Acid......is it hum-ick or hew-mick?

http://www.gardensalive.com/pr...

Hum-ick = black bean hummus...not to be sprayed on plants, rather eaten with chips.
Hew-mick = go juice for plants

Here's the Phoenix...

1st plant...

2nd plant - they look happy!