On April 25, it looks like there will be tomatoes in May!

I'll start with my tied tomatoes, here they are:

So far I can clearly see 4 growing tomatoes on one bush, but, for sure, more have started. I will write a story about them below.

And this is the younger generation, sowing on March 28:

And one special one, sown on January 4, it was already blooming, but ...:

He froze to death on March 24 from a prolonged freeze, the IR heater did not help... Tomatoes withstood short-term frosts with such heating down to -4 ° C, and one night turned out to be critical.

There were 8 frozen tomatoes, I left one, although the root stepchildren have already produced four out of eight. Others could have waited. But!

When pruning, I found a cavity in the stems. In all, except what she left. This was done by a bacteria that infects only tomatoes. There was no point in fighting her. In theory, it cannot be cured. Strong immunity is a reliable weapon.

The strongest immunity was found in the Daria variety with 50% vermicompost and feeding with bacteria once a week. You see this tomato in the photo, two root stepsons ...

Of course, it is far from May, however, the harvest will be!

So the story of a big bush in a black sack

On January 4th, I planted more seeds than was needed for the experiment. For healthy competition.

They also lighted up for 3 days, like my experimental tomatoes, then they basked for another two weeks under phytolamps for 14 hours

So, a friend took them all. I grew it on a southern windowsill with an ordinary lamp backlit. She transplanted at different times in containers of different volumes, buried them. I added vermicompost during transshipment, the same as mine.

When there were already buds, I radically cut off the tops (I pinched very small tops). As a result, her tomatoes bloomed 3 weeks later than ours. Having learned that my sleek tomatoes were frozen, she gave a couple of those competitors to me. 5th of April. Both were blooming!

One was in a two-liter juice bag, you saw it in the first photo. The second is in the liter. On the second, there are fewer flowers, the tomatoes have set, but are in no hurry to grow. Here it is, in the photo on the left:

On the right are tomatoes with buds, sown on February 29, there are only four of them. The varieties are the same. Pepper Hercules between them.

I was reproached in the comments for sowing too early, they said that with uncut tops, later tomatoes would catch up with January and overtake. You see for yourself, it will take a long time to catch up!

How are your early tomatoes doing?

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