Hi! My arthritic hand hurts, so no pics today, just a short text update.
The tomato on the windowsill looks like it might finally ripen! That's pretty exciting. I had another bigger tomato that was living in the middle of the tomato mess ripen, so I put that in my salad yesterday. It tasted like a tomato. I don't think it was all that spectacular. It was good, I don't really see much difference between it and some store bought cherry tomatoes, to be honest. The tomatoes are growing up into the lights again. I'm going to have to prune them again. It seems like pruning needs to be done at least weekly now, if not more frequently. I'm going to have to build up some kind of tinfoil walls around this thing to reflect light back into the tomatoes on the edges so that they'll ripen. Light does matter, no matter what the articles I've read lately have said. Most said that the amount of sunlight or grow light does not matter at all in tomato ripening, that it is totally the temp the tomatoes are at. That is untrue. My first tomato was at the proper temperature (I actually checked with a thermometer) and didn't ripen until I used a string to prop up the plant so the tomato was directly under the grow lights. Well, that's it for now. I'll have pictures next week. Happy Tomatoing!
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I lost another tomato. My daughter (my grown daughter) visited with me, and poked one of the little tomatoes that had started to ripen. It fell off. I told her she could eat it. Oh well. At least some are ripening. Here's some pictures of the tomatoes. Today was the day I needed to add more plant food. I did a full wash of the reservoir and refreshed the water. I also trimmed the roots somewhat. I also have some of the plants tied up with yarn to try and bring them under the lights better. Now I know why people have tinfoil all around their Aerogardens. I will probably do that soon. I'm just too tired to do it right now. Last week I pulled off one of the unripe tomatoes to see if it would ripen on the windowsill. So far, no go. That's about it for now. I know it's not much, but this is the stage in the game that is really just boring. The plants grow, they make fruit, maybe it ripens, you do boring upkeep stuff, that's all.
Keep checking in. Since things are getting so boring, I will maybe try to do the tinfoil setup or whatever. Perhaps I can find some more resources to post in the resources section. Happy Tomatoing! I can't believe this day has come. I had to do some pruning, the very first tomato still resolutely stays green, but time marches on and waits for no man....or tomato, so it would seem. See, just doesn't want to ripen. It thinks it's better than all the other tomatoes or something. Anyway, I pruned like crazy because these things were growing up into the lights even worse. And I had to put some more plant food into the reservoir. I even grabbed some yarn to try and prop up some of the branches in the back that seemed to be falling over a bit too much. But did you catch that little bit of color right there in the front? Did you? Did you? See, now this tomato knows what's going on. What it's supposed to do. It may be smaller than the rest, it may be fighting through a maze of branches, but darn it, it's going to freaking ripen no matter what. All these pictures were from a couple of days ago. Today, the tomato looked pretty good. Hi there! Lookin' good. Like, really good. Tasted pretty good, too. I might have jumped the gun. You can't really tell, but there was a little bit of green on the top, just a little. I'm not sure picking and eating this tomato right in front of the Aerogarden was a good way to encourage them to ripen, however. At any rate, there you go. I will probably trim the roots back sometime in the next week or so when I refresh the water and add nutrients again.
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October 2021
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