The cherry tomatoes were growing slowly but steadily during winter. The poles I used when transplanting were no longer tall enough so I replaced them with longer ones. The plants in the above photo are the tomatoes grown in the heated room. Since this room was warmer, these plants grew faster than the others.

The blossoms starting to bloom. They were the first ones.

The plants in the above photo are the cherry tomatoes grown in the unheated room. This is the one in which I put a lot of seedlings in a large sieve basket during the transplanting stage. Though the room temperature was relatively low, it caught the sun pretty well so the plants were growing well, comparably to those in the heated room. Since I didn’t remove extra branches and leaves, you can see the plants are denser than those in the previous picture. I wondered how those dense branches and leaves would affect future growth. The larger they grew, the more water they absorbed. You need to track how much water the plants absorb in a day and adjust your watering.

Please take a look at those tomato plants. They were grown in the unheated room and didn’t catch the sun very well. Here I noticed a distinguishing characteristic not seen in the other plants.

These tomato plants had firmer stalks and leaves compared to ones in the other settings. The stalks were thicker and its leaves were colored a strong dark green. The cherry tomatoes planted in this experiment were of the same variety. The only thing in this setting different from the others was that they were grown in a large planter. I look forward to their further growth.

The cherry tomatoes steadily grew through the winter. Some had blossoms bloom; others had buds that were about to bloom. None died. I adjusted the pole length according to the plants’ growth. I thought about using nets but decided not to due to lack of space. At this stage, I didn’t even consider how tall the plants would grow. I was amazed at their growth every day.