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help needed for tomato plant

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  • ColmOColmO Posts: 101
    Fire said:
    I imagine the scourer was left on the side, not in use. You can grown beans and cress in kitchen paper, so it seems fairly fine to growing a tom seedling on a foam pad. Maybe the OP has found and new approach and should patent it asap.

    Yes it was left on the side. We used to grow cress that way in primary school, and we "churned" our own butter and had cress sandwiches on the school playing fields!
  • ColmOColmO Posts: 101
    I'm very sorry I left it so long to reply, only I'm not always here that much, and I had a busy week. My tomato seems to be doing pretty well so far. :)
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Good to see a feature on Gardeners' World yesterday (30th Oct 2020) on growing happy, fruiting tomatoes and chillies in the bathroom. @colmruhpBr6U



  • ColmOColmO Posts: 101
    thank you Fire and philippasmith2. I'm sorry, again, I've not been here much for a while, been working on my bathroom, funnily enough! I did a search for "tomato in bathroom", and I found loads of articles about tomatoes, then I realised you meant the programme, so I shall watch it now. The plant is pretty tall, but it has lost some lower leaves, and the flower it had never amounted to much. I'm keeping it watered, so I'm thinking it's light it needs. I'm going to have another go at making that grow lamp work, then it can go in the boiler cupboard over the winter, where it's quite warm.

    phillipasmith2, I'm sure that's not true, but you could always move your mirror! :)
  • ColmOColmO Posts: 101
    ok, it's time to admit, you are dealing with an idiot here! There's nothing wrong with the lamp, I just had to plug it in! I thought plugging it in would charge it, but it doesn't! Anyway, so there are different brightness settings (not actually calibrated) and three colour settings, red, blue, and red & blue. And the timer can be for 3, 9 or 12 hours a day.
    Any suggestions as to settings gratefully received. Many thanks.
  • -I wouldn't worry about temperature if the tomato is indoors - mine are quite happy right now out in an unheated greenhouse.
    Don't put it in the boiler cupboard - you'll never get as much light from a little lamp as you will from the sun, even in winter
    -Be careful not to overwater
    -pinch out the top if it's getting too big to manage
    -Lots of light would be good, so I'd keep it in the southwest window
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