Monday, July 9, 2007

Tomato Emergency Update

No need to worry. Everything seems to be under control, and the emergency has passed. After Gina's inquiry, I realized that I had left people hanging and perhaps wondering if our sad little broken branch had taken a turn for the worse. I was planning on using wilting leaves as my cue for certain death, but I realized the broken branch is only flowers and fruit--no leaves! How can I know that whether the poor branch is healing? Will the attached tomatoes start to shrivel? I have no idea. Any suggestions?

A few days ago, we added some half-toothpick splints after deciding that the suggested pencil splits would be too big for a branch that's only about 3 mm wide. Yes, I'm an American who just used the metric system, but I'm also a scientist who can't think of what fraction of an inch that would be--a 16th, an 8th? When we unwrapped the tape, the broken part seemed to be a bit stronger and better attached, but still a little broken. We hope it is on the mend and that the splint suggestion works. As you can see, things look pretty good a week after the break, or at least no worse. Maybe some of the smaller tomato buds have grown a little. The picture is from July 4th and also shows one of our ripening fruits. I'll update you on how those turned out in the next post.

4 comments:

Gina said...

Thank you for the update! I had grown afraid you and your family were mourning the death of it. I had been checking your blog every day thinking WHAT ABOUT THE FREAKIN TOMATO??? I'M DYIN OVER HERE!! HA!

Anthony said...

I think it's time for some tough love. Just snip off the damaged section and be done with it. I do a lot of pruning of my tomato vines when growing them on a stake and they're always fine. It's too bad you lost a few tomatoes but in another few weeks, I'm sure you'll have so many that you won't even remember the few that didn't make it.
:)

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