![]() ![]() ![]() Any fruit breaking color will still ripen post-harvest. To deliver sound fruit, pick less ripe the further the distance and the longer the time between field and customer. Use fully ripe fruit only for local retail or home-use. Harvest softer fruit unstacked into shallow, padded trays. HARVEST: Fruits ripen gradually from the blossom end to shoulders and from the base of clusters to the tips. Avoid wet leaves and handling when wet or using tobacco products. DISEASES & INSECT PESTS: Learn your common pests and options for control, including resistant cultivars and pesticides. If needed later in season, consider thinning out leaves to increase airflow or topping plants to help finish ripening last fruits. The lower bottom suckers often miss trellis supports, set fruit closer to soil, take energy from upper parts, and encourage spread of disease from soil. PRUNING: Indeterminates likely benefit by removing all suckers under the first strong branch directly below the first flower cluster. ![]() For tall indeterminates, consider short extensions or pruning once they outgrow a manageable size for easy harvest. TRELLISING: Basket-weave by pounding 5–6' stakes every 2–3 plants, using heavier t-posts intermittently and at ends of beds. Water seedlings with a high-phosphate fertilizer solution at planting to help boost early yields. Plant deeply to encourage adventitious rooting. ![]() In rows 4–6' apart, space determinates 12–24" and indeterminates 24–36". Avoid exposing unprotected plants to consecutive nightly temperatures below 45☏ (7☌). For earliest crop, plant under row cover around last frost date. Supplemental lights and lower night temps control stretching. Grow at constant 60–70☏ (16–21☌) temp and use complete fertilizer until hardened-off. At first true leaf, pot-up to 50-cell trays or 4" pots, depending on expected transplant timing. Keep mix at 75–85☏ (24–29☌) with moderate moisture. About 5–6 weeks before transplanting, sow 1/4" deep in 20-row flats with 20 seeds/row, or in 200-cell trays with 1 seed/cell lightly cover. TRANSPLANTING: Don't start too early-leggy, root-bound, or flowering transplants can cause stunting and reduce early production. Tomatoes typically germinate in 5–7 days. For short determinates, succession-plant every 4–6 weeks. Fertilize accurately since excess nitrogen causes rampant growth, rot, and delayed ripening. CULTURE: Medium-rich soil with pH 6.0–6.8 preferred. INDETERMINATE (Climbing): Varieties should be staked, trellised, or caged, and pruned for best results fruit ripens over an extended period. They should be placed in a sunny, sheltered place with at least 6 hours of sunlight per day, if not more.SCIENTIFIC NAME: Solanum lycopersicum DETERMINATE (Bush): Varieties do not need pruning and may be grown with or without support fruit ripens within a concentrated time period. Tomatoes need fresh, well-fertilised permeable soil, which is kept damp (but not wet!). The young plant should not be planted outside until after the last frost. You can accelerate germination by priming them overnight in a damp cloth. Optimum germinating temperature is between 20☌ and 25☌, germination takes place after 5-15 days. When planting out, take care to ensure that there is sufficient space (at least 60cm) between the individual plants.Ĭare: You can grow Green Zebra tomatoes at home, in a greenhouse or outside. The plants can grow up to around 1.5 metres tall and need lots of warmth. The green zebra is a very fruity stake tomato, which you can start growing from February onwards in a greenhouse or inside your home. They produce round, medium-sized, very juicy fruits, which can be used for salads, sauces and jams. Information: An extremely rare variety, the Green Zebra tomato originates from the USA and - as the name suggests - remains green when it ripens, with the development of pale to orange yellow stripes. ![]()
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