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Are these containers big enough?

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  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    My tomatoes would never reach over 2 metres @Fire . They have to be grown indoors here and I only have a small growhouse, not a full sized greenhouse. It just means a slightly smaller plant.  I would probably use a slightly bigger pot in a full sized greenhouse. Tomatoes actually benefit from being slightly stressed anyway, as it pushes them into reproduction ie fruiting. Once they're fruiting, the rest of the plant becomes slightly redundant.
    The one in the clematis pot just now has 6 trusses of fruit maturing on it, and there's a coupe more  sets of flowers which will have time to fruit. It's in the kitchen where I have a bigger window. It goes out during the day if it's warm enough.  
    I've never had to water them more than once a day, and often not every day anyway here. 
    Mine are in the ground in the growhouse now and are bigger because of that, but they've now been pinched out at the tops. They're bursting at the seams with trusses of fruit, and we've had a few to eat in the last week. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    good to know
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