Flo

Them Prospero you sent me (fink it was you) are doing the best Strongest, healthiest, robust looking of the lot. Got em all out on the yard this morning to do a stock take

I'm embarrased to say mine look AWFUL ... except for 8 study Diamond ... so I'm off to sow some more!!

nonononono Flo - we just need to meet up as I've got ooodles spare!

moonbells

These are your ones Flo, not sure which cos no label as per

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pft *** elkzjhfg;oduf.\v cxmv *** ... where ever I go Wards has put pics

... now she she showes me Aubs of seeds I sent her ... .... mine are tiny !!!!

heck Flo.................... ..............are you swearing

... it's exasperation talking !!!!!!!!!!

Your seeds surplus always finds a good home Flo These could be the Firenze ones. I shall check my records (that won't take long )

They look like Rosa Bianca to me ??

You could be right there Flo. I did label them and they're still in their pots so I'll blame the blackbirds Got some more in the greenhouse

My aubs plants ended up in the bin they started to fruit and then the joints between the stem and fruit-bearing branches went brown and some of the fruits went mouldy seemingly overnight and fell off. I think it might have been blight? My peppers are going the same way and they've got lovely little green peppers on. Waaaaaaah

yeah but Loobs you shoulda stuck with em cos they would have come good I reckon. I had a few manky uns but grew them on and I'm getting aubs now. A bit late but never mind

I had two fruits coming on my aubs (yeah I thought having never grown them before) but the *%^$ing snails ate em!!!

Oh b****r Wards but I only binned them this week and there weren't any more flowers on, so I didn't think there was much chance of getting any aubs now. I've also picked the peppers off the plants today cos they don't look too good.

I've pruned quite a few tomato leaves this afternoon which deffo have stared to show signs of blight, but it seems to be mainly tigerellas that are affected for some reason. At least I've got lots of tomatoes this year - last year I didn't have my GH and lost the lot in the rain.

I don't have slugs in the GH Ady, but there are a couple of great big hairy spiders - I realised when I leaned my head into a HUUUUGE web this afto and nearly freaked when I saw the occupant

Loobs - my first 2 aubs went like you described (think I posted a pic somewhere but can't remember where ) but I cut them off and the rest developed fine We've eaten 4 of them and there's another 4 or 5 that are almost ready (and another handful which are probably too small and won't get big enough now).

I wish to goodness I could work out how to grow decent aubs.

This year I grew loads of them in the potting shed, as the conservatory, which is warmer, has red spider mite. I can fumigate the shed if need be!

I had three main plants - mohican (white), long purple and Calliope (mini striped ones). All in 8-10" pots.

I had (um...) about 12 other plants which I didn't know what to do with so they got shoved all over the place in various pot sizes.

I've had fruitwise three mohicans, one long purple and one calliope. They take yonks to get to proper size. I think there's 2-3 more Calliopes ready now, but how on earth do you get them to grow at a decent speed please?

I've four more plants which I decided to put outside in a monster pot and they've grown huge but only just flowering... *sigh*

Think they'll be headed for the conservatory soon, as there's backup heating on a thermostat for when it gets colder than 14C.

Help?!

moonbells

hmmm... answering own post... I googled

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There is one person I must go and ask though, over the other side...

moonbells

Mine haven't been large fruits by any means, not like those jumbo jobs in the shops

Mine haven't been that large either, but big enough to cook in curries etc . I grew them for the first time this year in an unheated greenhouse, just bunged them in to see what happened - I did try some outside too but got nothing off them at all

Seeing as Flo's not here, gerra load o these

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Ooooh what pretty aubs . Which variety are they Wards

Calliope My niece sent me the seeds bless

I'll have to look out for those