greenhouse tomatoes - growbag or large pots

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mumofstig

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Re: greenhouse tomatoes - growbag or large pots
« Reply #30 on: April 02, 2010, 21:32 »
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If the 'bags were plain black, I learn't at skool  , that black absorbs heat. So, would it benefit the plant by having 'warmer' roots etc??

IMO It would just make them dry out quicker :ohmy:

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Re: greenhouse tomatoes - growbag or large pots
« Reply #31 on: April 02, 2010, 21:39 »
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If the 'bags were plain black, I learn't at skool  , that black absorbs heat. So, would it benefit the plant by having 'warmer' roots etc??

IMO It would just make them dry out quicker :ohmy:

add more water lol.

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Re: greenhouse tomatoes - growbag or large pots
« Reply #32 on: April 02, 2010, 21:42 »
As long as you have the time to water your growbag more than once a day, that would be fine!
Personally I couldn't be bovvered ::)

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Re: greenhouse tomatoes - growbag or large pots
« Reply #33 on: April 02, 2010, 22:46 »
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If the 'bags were plain black, I learn't at skool  , that black absorbs heat. So, would it benefit the plant by having 'warmer' roots etc??

IMO It would just make them dry out quicker :ohmy:

add more water lol.

Oh dammit, I just wanted rid of the brightly coloured advertising!  ::) But seeing as most of you say that grobags are too shallow anyway, it doesn't matter cos I will just plant my toms in the garden and have done with it. Am not scientific enough to start thinking about heat/drying out etc, and besides it is getting late and my brain has switched off ........ ???

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Re: greenhouse tomatoes - growbag or large pots
« Reply #34 on: April 04, 2010, 10:24 »
i was considering growing tomatoes in grow bags again this year, but they seem so thin, i'm sure i have 50l ones last year  ??? all i can find is puney 30l grow bags.

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Re: greenhouse tomatoes - growbag or large pots
« Reply #35 on: April 04, 2010, 11:57 »
would there be a problem with plain old B&Q buckets with hole in the bottom??

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Re: greenhouse tomatoes - growbag or large pots
« Reply #36 on: April 04, 2010, 15:33 »
I have for years grown my glasshouse toms (,peppers, cukes etc) in a mixture of flower buckets (more recently) and grobags with and without special plastic watering/feeding jobbies fitted (3 per growbag).  Last summer I recall someone on the site mentioning a trial of combining the two by fitting one of the growbag thingies onto the tops of each of their flower buckets.

The initial instinctive reaction was "that's brilliant!", the subesquent instinctive reaction was also "that's brilliant!" but recognising that sometimes the actuality may turn out to be counter-intuitive, any news on how the trial worked out, either from the original poster or from anyone else who was able to give it a go?  I am minded to give it a go myself, at least for a couple of toms, but it would certainly be useful if anyone out there has any suitable do and don't recommendations.
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Re: greenhouse tomatoes - growbag or large pots
« Reply #37 on: April 04, 2010, 15:36 »
I got some snazzy hanging bags from the £1 shop and we are going to try them this year for the tom's, i might just hang one on the neighbour's side as well hahahhaha they had a few bits that we had to many of last year.  The best bit is they will need a set of step's to get to the toms as there garden is 5 ft lower than our then the fence on the top. 

Will let you all know how we get on growing this way.
Thanks
Kris



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