In article , David W.E. Roberts
writes
Hi,

I have an awful lot of Gardeners Delight this year - basically stuck one in
each large pot with other veg. as these are listed as a trailing 'hanging
basket' tomato.

They seem different from other cherry tomatoes I have grown.

Instead of the green-yellow-orange-red colour change they seem to go
green-green/white-white/red-red.

The final red is more like an eating apple than a normal tomato.

The texture is also a bit 'mealy' and again not like other tomatoes.

Is this usual for this strain, or have I done something unusual to them?

I confess to being a little disappointed so far, but hopefully they will
make a good puree for freezing and later use in cooking.


Could you reveal which seed supplier listed Gardener's Delight as
'trailing' or 'hanging basket' tomatoes? They are a 'cherry' or 'bite
size' tomato. They can be grown successfully either indoors or outside,
and either as cordons or bush plants. Their fruits normally form on long
trusses, ripening from green to a similar red as many popular red
tomatoes, and are above average in sweetness. They are very abundant and
they should continue cropping until late autumn/early winter.

Problems with colour, flavour and texture in tomatoes are more often a
result of management rather than species. G.D.s may have done better
alone in a pot without competition from other plants. A mealy texture in
any variety suggests over watering or over feeding.
--
Alan & Joan Gould - North Lincs.

"Alan Gould" wrote in message
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Problems with colour, flavour and texture in tomatoes are more often a
result of management rather than species.
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A mealy texture in
any variety suggests over watering or over feeding.
--
Alan & Joan Gould - North Lincs.

As noted elsewhere - Garden Pearl (oops!)

They are well watered and fed - over watering seems to be happening as I
type :-)

However a couple of pots have been seriously underfed (pale green to
yellow/green foliage) and still produce the same results.

The results are the same for plants on their own in various sizes and styles
of pots, and those in with cucumbers and gherkins.

Thanks
Dave R

In article , David W.E. Roberts
writes
However a couple of pots have been seriously underfed (pale green to
yellow/green foliage) and still produce the same results.

Pale green or yellow/green foliage is often a result of oxygen
deficiency at the root system of the plant - caused by water-logging.
--
Alan & Joan Gould - North Lincs.

"Alan Gould" wrote in message
...
In article , David W.E. Roberts
writes
However a couple of pots have been seriously underfed (pale green
to
yellow/green foliage) and still produce the same results.

Pale green or yellow/green foliage is often a result of oxygen
deficiency at the root system of the plant - caused by
water-logging.

I'm lost here. I thought that Oxygen was a plant waste product. What
does the plant do with the Oxygen you say it needs at the root system?

Franz

In article , Franz Heymann notfranz.
writes
I'm lost here. I thought that Oxygen was a plant waste product. What
does the plant do with the Oxygen you say it needs at the root system?

It is one of the minerals taken up by the plant.
--
Alan & Joan Gould - North Lincs.

"Alan Gould" wrote in message
...
In article , Franz Heymann
notfranz.
writes
I'm lost here. I thought that Oxygen was a plant waste product.
What
does the plant do with the Oxygen you say it needs at the root
system?

It is one of the minerals taken up by the plant.

I thought that such Oxygen as a plant needs is absorbed as the Ogygen
in Carbon Dioxide through the stomata or as components of molecules or
ions which the plant takes in through the roots. I am probably just
being ignorant, but I have never heard of Oxygen being absorbed
through the roots as gaseous molecules of Ogygen..
I do know that many plants abhor waterlogged conditions, but I did not
think that that was connected with the uptake of gaseous Oxygen
molecules through the roots.

Franz

In article , Franz Heymann
writes
I thought that such Oxygen as a plant needs is absorbed as the Ogygen
in Carbon Dioxide through the stomata or as components of molecules or
ions which the plant takes in through the roots. I am probably just
being ignorant, but I have never heard of Oxygen being absorbed
through the roots as gaseous molecules of Ogygen..
I do know that many plants abhor waterlogged conditions, but I did not
think that that was connected with the uptake of gaseous Oxygen
molecules through the roots.

Oxygen is not absorbed into plant roots as a gas, it converts into an
oxide mineral first, but that cannot happen in waterlogged or over-
compacted soil. That is why lawns need aeration from time to time.
--
Alan & Joan Gould - North Lincs.

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 05:50:02 +0100, Alan Gouldwrote:
Franz Heymann writes
I'm lost here. I thought that Oxygen was a plant waste product. What
does the plant do with the Oxygen you say it needs at the root system?

It is one of the minerals taken up by the plant.
--
Alan & Joan Gould - North Lincs.

An essential element perhaps, not a mineral, though.
It is a factor in anaerobic/aerobic conditions mediating bacterial
and fungal activity in the root systems and enabling (or otherwise)
the plants ability to take up nutrients.

In article , Corncrake
writes
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 05:50:02 +0100, Alan Gouldwrote:
Franz Heymann writes
I'm lost here. I thought that Oxygen was a plant waste product. What
does the plant do with the Oxygen you say it needs at the root system?

It is one of the minerals taken up by the plant.
--
Alan & Joan Gould - North Lincs.

An essential element perhaps, not a mineral, though.
It is a factor in anaerobic/aerobic conditions mediating bacterial
and fungal activity in the root systems and enabling (or otherwise)
the plants ability to take up nutrients.

I'm sorry, I don't fully understand that. Could you put it another way?
--
Alan & Joan Gould - North Lincs.