We had a few chilly nights and a couple of overcast days, a very rare occurance hereabouts, so I had to bring one of the pampered AeroGarden tomato plants back in for R & R. The Tropic Boy and Red Currant varieties are doing great outdoors, however, and as now we are having warm weather again, at least in the high seventies, these guys are very happy.
This is the first open flower from the first cluster of buds that formed on our Red Currant Tomato experiment.
These plants were started inside in an AeroGarden, but then moved to side containers where they got pretty leggy waiting for the summer heat to die down. So I kept snipping the tops off and sticking them in glasses of water alongside to root, and just dumped the parent plants because there wasn't enough room indoors for all of them.
These are still growing in the quart containers and I've changed the GH Flora Series nutrient ratio from 2:2:2: to 1:2:3 (grow:micro:bloom) now that they are blooming.
The Tropic Boy cuttings are doing great, too.
There are several fruit on the Tropic Boy but they are still microscopic. Now it is a race against time, to see if those fruit will mature before "winter" comes. Our usual lows are in the mid 40's for December, January, and February, with highs around 65 degrees F. This will not allow production of tomatoes of the highest nutritional value, but this experiment is just to see if the plants will live and bear fruit ripe fruit.