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Greg1959

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Ive grown all the standard varieties of them but now I ant to do an experiment....my plan is, since I am here on the Oregon coast and it rarely gets below freezing I want to try to grow peppers and tomatoes year round.

I have purchased LED full spectrum grow lights with hoods and rotating bases to ensure ALL the plants receive maximum amount of light.

My plan is to start them from seed as soon as I can. Then transplant into five gallon buckets to grow. I'll pull the buckets out on sunny days but on cool rainy days I plan on leaving them in the car trailer and run off solar power battery bank.

Now, my question. I've been reading up on cool weather tolerant
tomato plants. I don't plan on canning these tomatoes. Just want to grow some for sandwiches, etc. I'm looking for an Indeterminate type tomato that produses all year.

I have found one called"Gregori?s Altai Tomato". It came out of Siberia. Looks like a good candidate. Also(it's a determinate type) is the "heinz super roma tomato".

Have any of y'all had any experience with either one of these.

Thanks
 
My Sister tried a few years ago to grow tomatoes in her greenhouse. Her idea was the same, year round tomatoes. She grew beautiful plants loaded with fruit. The problem she had was the fruit would not ripen. She waited for a warm day and set the plants outdoors for a day or two and they finally ripened. This was in southeast Texas.
 
Canada has been growing tomatoes under grow lights for years , in north west ohio they have been growing green beans and peppers in these mega complexes you can see the glow of light 5 miles away at night , put the light as close as you can without burning the leaves it keeps them short and fat instead of tall and stringy, sounds like you are planting your roots in Oregon, love your pics of your adventures , keep them coming
 
ttown chuck- Thanks, we are glad you like the pics. I'll get more. There is just so much to see here.
 
Best tomato for western Washington and Oregon is Early Girl- about the only one that will ripen dependably in our climate, in summer. Don't think you'll have much luck growing any type of tomato in winter- they may not freeze, but not enough heat to ripen, either.
 
You can grow tomatoes under lights.
But you also need heat.
At 50&#176 a tomato plant is shivering.
At 65 to 75&#176 it is growing well.
At anything above 85&#176 the fruit will ripen but it will not be deep red.

The seeds you are looking at are what is called cool or short season tomatoes.
They will set fruit at cooler temperatures and ripen in a shorter time.
They are propagated for areas with short summers.
But you still need the summer warmth for the fruit to ripen.
 
coshoo- Thanks. I'm hoping, with the grow lights. that it will be enough light hours per day for them to be able to ripen.
 
John in La- Thanks for the info. I've just started reading up on the temp range to ripen. Seems the solution is to pick them green and bring them in and put on winder sill for a couple of days to ripen.
 
Interesting question- does anybody on here know whether its heat units or daylight hours that is the more important factor in tomato ripening?
 
Mastronardi has a huge greenhouse near me. They started with tomatoes a few years ago, then expanded into peppers, cucumbers, etc. It covers about 80 acres, not including water reclamation plant. If the clouds are right you can see the glow of lights in the sky from Battle Creek, 30 miles away. Their electric bill is $600,000 PER MONTH. Yep, that's right, $600,000 per month.
 
we grow tomatoes for quite a few years now. once it gets down to the frost days they are picked green .then stored in cardboard trays covered with newspaper and kept it in cool dark till they ripen. never heard that a tomatoe need light to ripen. or else we are doing it wrong??? i would say a month or more to ripen.
 
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