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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