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Saturday, June 14, 2014
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SEAMSFASTER
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East Carbon, Utah
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Here was my lineup for 2013:
1884 (3.375 Kirschenmann 2003)
King Kong (Shlomin 2012)
Leadbeatter's Lunker (4.905 Leadbeatter 2012)
Italo (__ Meisner 2005)(5.78 Italo 2005)
Big Zac (2.962 DT 2012)
MegaMarv (5.51 Meisner 2011)
Church (3.208 DT 2012)
Chilo della Garfagnana (3.375 Koshykar 2012)
Michael's Portuguese Monster (2.610 DT 2012)
Big Zac (5.64 Timm 2010)
Domingo (4.55 Wahl 2012)
Delicious (7.33 Hunt 2010)
Big Zac (3.486 DT 2012)
Peter Glazebrook's Special (Johnson 2012)
Big Zac (5.32 Lyons 2011)
Thunder Creek (3.313 Chambers 2004)
Big Zac, Epsteins PL (Johnson 2012)
Big Zac (5.50 Johnston/Butler 2012)
Delicious (5.41 Landry 2011)
Burgess (4.188 Chambers 2006)
So last year I attempted to lay vines along the ground and bury them, much as is commonly done with pumpkin vines. Stems grew very thick. There was massive production of suckers and vines, with a good number of megablooms on nearly every plant. But it was a record hot summer and I could not get any megablooms to set fruit until September. Plus I became too busy (and a bit discouraged...) to keep up with pruning and thinning. I got nothing over 2 lbs. for the effort, but did save some good seeds.
Actually I did get just one tomato over 2 lbs., but not in the giant tomato bed. It developed with no help on one of 1,600 plants of 880 varieties slated for production:
Polish Giant Beefsteak (2.222 DT 2013).
Beat out all Delicious, MegaMarv, Big Zac (OP), etc. Needless to say, I'm keeping my eye on this variety.
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