{"id":1715,"date":"2022-02-06T16:38:11","date_gmt":"2022-02-06T21:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/?p=1715"},"modified":"2022-02-06T16:38:14","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T21:38:14","slug":"2022-02-05-micro-dwarf-tomato-experiment-day-642","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/2022\/2022-02-05-micro-dwarf-tomato-experiment-day-642\/","title":{"rendered":"2022.02.05: Micro Dwarf Tomato Experiment, Day 642!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So almost two years ago I started an experiment to see how well Micro Dwarf Tomatoes could be grown indoors and outdoors and which varieties produced and tasted the best: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/2020\/2020-05-08-micro-dwarf-tomato-experiment-day-1\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1566\">2020.05.08: Micro Dwarf Tomato Experiment, Day 0<\/a>. It turns out micro dwarf tomatoes can do spectacularly well indoors because here it is 642 days later (nearly 2 years) and I&#8217;m still harvesting lots of tomatoes! I think only a few of the 10 original varieties I planted are still around and kicking and we&#8217;ve been through two spider mite and one white fly infestations (resolved with the help of beneficial insects). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/PXL_20220206_001946600_resize_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"629\" height=\"838\" src=\"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/PXL_20220206_001946600_resize_1-edited.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1718\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/PXL_20220206_001946600_resize_1-edited.jpg 629w, http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/PXL_20220206_001946600_resize_1-edited-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 629px) 100vw, 629px\" \/><\/a><figcaption><em>Still getting delicious tomatoes off my indoor micro tomatoes! <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/PXL_20220206_002049709_resize_80.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/PXL_20220206_002049709_resize_80-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1716\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/PXL_20220206_002049709_resize_80-768x1023.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/PXL_20220206_002049709_resize_80-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/PXL_20220206_002049709_resize_80.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><figcaption><em>20+ tomato harvest!<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The coolest thing about these tomatoes is I haven&#8217;t even really tried to keep them alive, they just kinda sit in my office. I&#8217;ve mostly just kept watering them, periodically throwing some Miracle Gro, and harvesting tomatoes when they become ripe. I&#8217;ve been super impressed! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So almost two years ago I started an experiment to see how well Micro Dwarf Tomatoes could be grown indoors&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1719,"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715\/revisions\/1719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}