FWIW, I started bucket growing using 5g pails but now that I've gone to the 17g container, the tomatoes are a LOT bigger.Tastes and body acceptance do change. I can eat asparagus and cauliflower today that I couldn't stand as short as a few years ago.
Got my first balcony tomato yesterday.
Watering up to a quart per day and feeding every 5 days. First tomato was baseball sized and about expected for a big beef.
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I thin each cluster to 1 tomato
Next winter I'll add a lot of worm compost that I'm doing inside my house using red wigglers. Curious to see if there is much improvement over these last two years.