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09 Mar 18, Mike (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

What you do is keep some of the tomatoes when they are really ripe - seeds from the different colored tomatoes. Put the tomatoes in a bowl and mash them up - take the flesh out and just have the seeds left. Put the seeds in a container and put some water in it to cover them. They will ferment - have a white fungi scum on the top. After about 5-6 days wash the white stuff off and then place the seeds on some paper towel to dry for a week. Place the seeds in a sealable bag and put in a jar with a lid and tighten it - then put in the fridge until next spring. Tomatoes are easy to germinate and grow. Tomatoes are usually a 6-8 mth crop and then removed. Won't really grow inside - need sunlight.

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15 Feb 18, francie hancock (New Zealand - temperate climate)

what tomato do people recommend for cooler climate please

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24 Feb 18, Wendy (New Zealand - cool/mountain climate)

We grow short season tomatoes successfully, like Early Girl.

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21 Feb 18, Gaurav (New Zealand - cool/mountain climate)

Hi Francie, I am not sure of the variety though I've seen something in Bunnings couple of months ago and that was specific to tomatoes. May be worth going/asking there? Not sure if this is of any help though. Good luck! Regards, Gaurav

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27 Jan 18, Greg (Australia - temperate climate)

Blossom end rot; is it potassium or calcium deficiency. I have applied two doses to the soil and watered in but my Apollo tomatoes look to be developing it. Thank you for any help.

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30 Jan 18, Mike (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

It is Magnesium deficiency. A suggestion is to put two teaspoons in the bottom of the hole when you transplant. Mix it into the soil. Or apply some around the base of the plant (two feet diameter) and water it in.

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30 Jan 18, Mike (Australia - cool/mountain climate)

Apply epsom salts

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22 Dec 17, Richard Masina (South Africa - Semi-arid climate)

How many kinds of tomatoes

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19 Nov 17, Chris M (Australia - temperate climate)

With some arrays of flowers on my tomato plants there is a single large flower. Why is there one large flower? Would be very grateful for a reply,

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19 Nov 17, Pauline (Australia - temperate climate)

A older person told me to cut a tomatoe into 4 and plant I have never done this before so I did and wow 15 plants and the. Plants are unreal

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