Growth stages fruiting Solanum

vegetables in Philippines
Mike Titley
August 2013
Tomatoes

Seed and seedling stage to transplanting (150-200

mm high)

Vegetative stage (prior to rst ower)

Floral Initiation (starts early)

Flowering & fruit set (continues in indetrminate

types)

Fruit development 14 days after fruit set

Extended Harvesting period & crop nishing

Exercise: develop timelines for each area

Growth Stages Minimum Optimum Maximum
Germination 11 16-29 34
Growth
Development
18 21-24 32
Fruit set night 10 14-17 20
Fruit set day 18 23-26 30
Fruit turning
red
10 20-24 30
Fruit turning
yellow
10 21-23 40
Tomatoes- optimum temperatures
3 Phases of seed germination
Peat block seedling
Speedling transplants 5 days post transplant
Tomato plants root sytems
Transplanted (left) v direct seeded (right)
28 days after transplanting 56 days after transplanting
Open eld , cold frame & heated nursery
Source ; Thompson Root system of vegetable crops
Vegetative growth stage-oral initiation
1st owering truss 7-8th node
First wire applied around 1st -2nd flower
First ower and strong leader
Mid fruit development
Late harvest stage: 4 &5 wires Bundaberg sand pulse irrigated
Fruit load early harvest
Sweet Peppers-Green & Red

Seed and seedling stage to transplanting

Vegetative stage

Floral Initiation

Flowering

Fruit development

Harvesting period: concentrated

Exercise : develop timelines for your area

Sweet pepper
seedling in peat block
Speedling Pepper transplants
1st ower
stage
1st fruit set
and later
owering
stage
Mature
green fruit
stage
4/plant
concentrated
fruit set
1st harvest stage : eld view twin row/bed
Non uniform
owering &
friuit set
High yielding sweet pepper
Green versus red fruit
No.1 grade red peppers
Eggplant growth stages

Seed and seedling stage to transplanting

Vegetative stage

Floral Initiation

Flowering

Fruit development-1st fruit

Harvesting over extended period

Exercise : Develop timelines for your area

Eggplant Speedling cell
Eggplant 90 cell Speedling tray
Eggplant peat block
Eggplant eld layout
Seedling 7 days old
Eggplant vegetative stage
Eggplant 1st Flower
Eggplant 1st harvest
Eggplant at mid harvest
Eggplant Black Pearl at harvest
Caliente mustard 35 days old outdoors
Caliente mustard 35 days under tunnel