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When can you transplant tomatoes in Chicago? 

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It was concluded that planting can be done at 5.0 leaves/transplant and 0.5g/transplant and that in winter and spring grown periods it may be delayed until 6.0 leaves/transplant and 0.7g/transplant.
This procedure can produce ac- ceptable fruit when tomatoes are picked ma- ture-green, but frequently immature green fruit are also harvested.
Direct-seeded plants, or transplanting seedlings at the two-leaf stage, will benefit growers by producing tomatoes earlier for the market while eliminating or reducing transplant shock.
Results indicate that the packing house would have difficulty sustaining itself if it packed tomatoes only during the three months a year that local tomatoes are produced.
So in North China Plain, or similar semi-humid area, when there were not enough fresh water for irrigation, saline water with salinity from 2.2 to 4.9 dS/m can be applied to irrigate field culture tomatoes after appropriate management strategies were adopted.
This information could be useful in breeding programs for new cultivars suitable for early transplant, when chilling injury can happen.
Tomatoes harvested at 30 days had higher total soluble solid (TSS) content when grown conventionally, but when harvested at 45 days, both conventional and organic tomatoes had similar TSS values, probably due to increased N availability in the soil.
Cultivation of greenhouse tomatoes under continuous light promises high yield increases.
Semidried tomatoes should be considered a potential vehicle of transmission in foodborne outbreaks of HAV.
This is the first report of STV infecting tomatoes in Asia.