Not much to tell today, except TA-DAA! An actual tomato! I had been worried that I wasn't pollinating the tomato plants properly, but I got it right on at least one. One thing that makes tomatoes easier to get to the "I've got a tomato" stage is that they are self-pollinators. This means they have flowers on them with both a stamen and a pistil in the same bloom. This means you could have just one tomato plant and it could still pollinate itself with a slight breeze (or a little gentle help from a human!) I read about a few different ways to do this and decided to just use a cotton swab (or my finger) to transfer pollen around on the blooms. It looks like I did OK. The plants are starting to grow up into the lights a bit, but I am worried about pruning, as most of the blooms are appearing at or near the tops of the plants, unsurprisingly. That will probably be next week's topic. Maybe the tomato will be ripe by then and I can tell you how it tasted! Ciao! Happy "tomatoing"!
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October 2021
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