Is this from being frozen or freezing while they were grown? Or is this something else entirely and I shouldn't worry about it?

Hi All,

I am about to start trial run of growing tomatoes fully indoors under LED's,, in Thailand.

The reason is that tomatoes are hard to grow in Thailand due to the heat, so good tomatoes are relatively expensive - you can get cheap field grown for about $1.5 per kilo but for premium product you are looking at more like $8-10. Example:

https://www.sirinfarm.com/product/organic-thomas-tomatoes-400-500g-3-4-pcs/

I am in the process of opening a sandwich shop with an eye on opening a chain of them if the first one goes well, so I need consistent supply more than anything.

I am actively involved in indoor cannabis production in Thailand (where it is now 100% legal) and have unlimited access to indoor growing equipment.

Electricity here is about $0.13 per KWH, for reference.

I have already germinated some beef steak seeds, I have some Thomas Tomato seeds on the way also, for now I will focus on these varieties as they are easy to get.

Irrigation is done via Autopots - pot size 5 gallon with 90% Peat 10% Perlite mix. Standard grow and bloom nutrients.

I can completely control the temperature, humidity and CO2 levels of the growing space.

The first growing area will be small so I can test the setup. The floor space is 1.2m x 2.4m (3m2) with 2 x 720W full spectrum LED's providing the total light source. I plan to have these on for 12 hours a day using about 500W each when fruiting, so around 12 KWH per day (DLI 25 @ 600 PPFD for those with that kind of understanding).

Total cost of this is about $1.50 - $1.75 per day, nutrient cost is negligible as it's so cheap here.

So, here is the question - what kind of yields can you expect from 6 established tomato plants grown in a 3 square meter space under optimal conditions, per week or per month?

And also are there any banana skins about growing tomatoes under LED's indoors that I should be aware of?

Many thanks in advance.

Hi , this is my beefsteak tomato tree . First time growing it, wondering if any general advise on pruning ? Also should I be taking off that second stem that I pointed at with the arrow ? Thanks for any help , it’s much appreciated.

So i'm new to growing veggies outdoors but have a lot of experience with plants in general..

In my area we get 0 freeze and people are still running indeterminate cherry tomatoes, and determinates.

I'll be growing all these tomato species (listed below) at appropriate times, in fabric pots. I've done a lot of reading but would like to hear directly from the tomato crowd. Just looking for some general information and a final overall plan so I don't just waste tomato seeds or TIME. Again, 10b so cal.

• What size fabric pots would you suggest for this mix of tomatoes (cherry, indeterminates, determinates)

• Any additional suggestions such as feeding schedules for containers, or additional feed's with

• What soil mix do you all prefer?

• Any additional special care for one or more of these cultivars?

The List of tomatoes I've got for the season

• Patios Choice Yellow Hybrid

• 42 day Tomato

• Brandywine Black Tomato

• Black Krim

• Black Sea Man

• Gold Nugget

• Dr. Wyche's Yellow

• Wherokawhai

All seeds are MIgardener, except the Yellow Patio's Choice is from Totally Tomatoes.

Freezing temperatures got the tomato vines last night here in my corner of the northern hemisphere. For now, I will admire the abundance from our fellow gardeners in the southern hemisphere. Have a great season Australia! 🇦🇺

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Hi, everyone! I’m a new tomato grower. My bush tomato plant produced about 15-20 new fruits over the last few weeks. It was getting a lot of sun, but temps were mild for Texas, and it just really went nuts. All of the fruits are firm and green. About 7 of these are golf ball-sized, and I went ahead and took them tonight because were supposed to drop below freezing briefly tonight. I left the rest of the fruits, which are all grape-sized. Should I go ahead and take them, too, and just ripen in a bag, or should I see if they’ll grow/ripen further? We’re supposed to be in the 30’s at night and 50’s/60’s in the day for the next couple of weeks. What do you think?

Bonus question: I also tried carrots for the first time this fall, and I have a bunch of carrots that are only 1-2” long. I’ve read that they’ll continue to grow slowly if it’s not freezing but that you can leave them all winter, and even if they don’t grow anymore, they’ll stay fresh. What say you?

This is the first time I have grown tomatoes. I am growing them inside and I have had it for about 6 months. The plant is already about 3ft. It started growing fruit 3 days ago. They are still small. It's just barely visible for some of them. How long will it take for them to be ready for harvest from this point?

First year growing and we are just about ready for a fall harvest. We have tons of green tomatoes that I've been trying to convince that they ripen ASAP before a freeze comes but they aren't listening. We have very little interest in green tomatoes, so pickling, canning, salsa Verde, so we want to only accept greens as a last resort.

Dreadfully I see that our temps will hit 32 degrees at 5am tomorrow morning and won't get to 33 until 8am . After tonight, it looks that we won't freeze again for the next 10 days, so I'm hoping they will have more time to ripen.

Everything is planted above ground in planters, which from my research sounds like is not ideal for this scenario.

So I have a few questions.

1. Will my plants survive a few hours below freezing?

2. If I pick them now will these green tomatoes eventually ripen off the vine or will they stay green?

3. If the green tomatoes are exposed to the freeze does it ruin them in anyway? I don't want green tomatoes, but if your telling me they basically are ruined I'd rather pick them and have something rather than nothing.

4. Any other tips? I don't have any gardeners cloth to cover them, but I do have a lot of moving blankets. Also, I have an outdoor radiant heater, but I wouldn't want to use it unsupervised over night.

Thank you so much for the advice. This scenario has benn stressing me out!

I grew up eating macaroni every Sunday. My grandmother from Italy would jar her own sauce. I cannot find one sauce or tomato sauce in the USA that tastes like tomatoes from 20-30 years ago. 😭

Cultivar: Chocolate Sprinkles cherry tomatoe from Bonnie/Home Depot.

So I see some say it's an heirloom and others say it's an F1 -- searching yields little results. It's so well loved figured i'd give it a try.

Will I be able to save seeds from this cultivar? OR, is it an F1?

Saving these San Marzanos, Graf Zeppelins, Santorinis and Yellow Mortgage Lifters before the rain hits and splits them.

I’ve been trying to grow Sungold tomatoes here in Singapore as the tomatoes in the supermarkets here are just….not it. I would grow the main plant indoors in coir/charcoal/perlite and would plant their snipped sideshoots in water where I would lush roots. These cuttings would then be transferred outside in pots with organic garden soil, some perlite and charcoal. The leaves would wilt including the shoot and only the stem would just remain.