Sunday, November 21, 2010

My BIG Grosse Lisse Tomatoes

I started planting my grosse lisse tomato last June, i put a lot of effort with this tomato,since im doing it Organic.I wasnt prepared that i could grow almost 30 plants.They have been attacked by flea bettle,leafminer,thrips , some died of "fusarium wilt",which they just die instantly.One plant wilted in the morning and just die in the afternoon! that plant has the first fruit ,and my excitement died together with the plant.I discovered that there was a mold on its crown.It happens when there's too much rain.August is the beginning of rainy season,i didnt know that it wasnt the right time to plant tomatoes!! ha ha ha.There are days when i just cried and tell my husband that maybe,i wont do "organic" all the way.LOL! what am i thinking! Learned a lot of lessons with these grosse lisse toms, A LOT!!!!! I did not know that i couldnt spray my organic pesticide when the sun still up, that was the time when i almost cried that all of them had "phytotoxicity" from spraying pesticide! Their leaves were burned!!! and some turned brown.. My heart was really broken,They are already 1.5-2ft tall at that time, and some were flowering.
Along the way, i had to pull out some plants that are sick,and unhealthy.
When some toms started bearing fruits, i was happy again.From there,maybe i could get some seedlings to be planted for the next season,and yes i did! and just planted some today.
HEIGHT:
Look how tall are my grosse lisse in this picture.Im 5'3" and some are taller than me.You could see there are cogon plants at my back, those are gone now.I wasnt able to maintain the cleanliness around my tomatoes because i dont have much time to do it lately.One of the reason too, that some pests are attacking my toms,they could be hiding under those weeds.I see a lot of caterpillars whenever i do the weeding and i just hate how fast they could eat the tomato leaves.

SIZE
These are my grosse lisse (big) and cherry tomato (small one) .I guess i could make my grosse lisse bigger next time.I hope i coud do it better when its tonato season.

COLOR
When its still green it already looks so yummy.When i was a kid, i used to looooove eating green tomatoes.Wheni go to the market (high school days) I really picked those green toms with some red in it.I love to just dice them and eat em with "bagoong" fish sauce.Yummmm!!! You notice the leaves,there are some spots and white that looks like a scribble,those are signs of thrips.They are envading and i couldnt control them.I am out of NEEM pesticide thats why i couldnt control them anymore.

CRACKING
There is this tomato fruit that i am expecting to have the crack.I couldnt do much about it since there are lesser leaves to protect the fruit.I blame it on thrips!!! They just brought tomato spotted wilt on my tomato plant and i have to de-leaf it! twice,while the fruit was there.

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