I'm in love... :-)

[b54red]

Now that you have tried the drug and gotten hooked you are on the long downward spiral of tomato addiction. Leading eventually to starting seeds for far more plants than you can possibly grow. Saving and swapping seeds. Incessantly checking seed catalogs and gardening blogs. Building bigger and better supports and growing areas. Making sauce and salsa and salads filled with only home grown tomatoes. Experimenting with more and more exotic varieties until you hit bottom and your health and age force you to face your addiction. Even then it is so easy to slip.

Bill

[newatthiskat]

I agree with starting the addiction. This year I am planting tomatoes everywhere and trying to find ways to camouflage so my landlord does not notice LOL

[kath]

Congratulations, Ginny! Hold on thought because you're in for a wild ride! Enjoy tasting them all and let us know which are your favorites.

kath

[Sun City Linda]

Congratulations indeed! Welcome to the addiction. And never forget, we are all here to enable you.

[Tormato]

So, when do get around to trying Aunt Ginny's Purple?

[RootLoops]

that's an awesome looking plant! i think we have those same tomatoes at the wal mart here next time i go i'll get some and start the seed for the fall crop. great job!!!

[ginger2778]

Originally Posted by Sun City Linda

Congratulations indeed! Welcome to the addiction. And never forget, we are all here to enable you.

SO Funny!

Marsha

[Sun City Linda]

Originally Posted by ginger2778

SO Funny!

Marsha

Chief enabler.

[Tracydr]

Nice job, good looking plants! I'm surprised the hybrid babies taste good, you'll need to save seed.
You're going to live black cherry. It tastes awesome, especially if you get hot,dry days.

[Fiishergurl]

Bill - I am already displaying many of those symptoms. I don't think there is any hope for me... lol.

Root Loops - If you do save some and grow them from seeds, please report back. Would be interesting to see what you get. I'm wondering if it was a cherry plant crossed with something larger to give it a medium size, but cherry type production. The original tomato was larger than a golfball but smaller than a tennis ball. Like I said, not beefsteak type, but very flavorful and yummy!

TracyDr - I looked more closely at my Black Cherry plant this morning and it is COVERED with tomatoes up higher that I hadn't really noticed. I can't wait until they ripen as that's one I really want to try. We get lots of hot wet days, but since it's in a self watering container hopefully it won't get too wet or mushy.


Tormato... hahaha - I've been tempted! Probably will have one in the fall crop. got to, right?

Thank you everyone for all the comments and words of encouragement. You are all helping my addiction... lol.

Ginny

[feldon30]

Originally Posted by Fiishergurl

Better Bush??? This is one of the first we bought. At that time we thought a tomato plant was a tomato plant and didn't write down what it was. thought we would remember.

There are about 6,000 tomato varieties, but don't worry, you don't have to grow them all the same year.

Of the modern hybrids, I like Big Beef.

[RootLoops]

i'll keep up with it, wont be able to get any until may but first frost isn't til sometime in october usually so i should still have time to get them in for the end of season. i'll post what happens somewhere here. i'd like to cross it with a mortgage lifter and see what happens i may put one of each in the closet!

[Fiishergurl]

Originally Posted by feldon30

There are about 6,000 tomato varieties, but don't worry, you don't have to grow them all the same year.

Of the modern hybrids, I like Big Beef.

Big Beef... going to try that one.

BTW... I just read in another post that someone is starting fall tomatoes already. OMG, I'm behind already.. Going to start a bunch this weekend. Where im going to put them I will figure out later... lol.

Ginny

[Fiishergurl]

Originally Posted by RootLoops

i'll keep up with it, wont be able to get any until may but first frost isn't til sometime in october usually so i should still have time to get them in for the end of season. i'll post what happens somewhere here. i'd like to cross it with a mortgage lifter and see what happens i may put one of each in the closet!

The plant I posted in the first picture of this thread probably has 300 or more tomatoes on it now. I stopped counting when it reached 200 about a month ago. And no matter how many suckers I take off now it always sprouts more. Someone told me cherries try to take over the zip code so I think this one has a cherry daddy or cherry momma... lol.

I took a cutting from the plant a while back and the clone is only about 2 1/2 feet tall and probably has 30-50 tomatoes already but I guess because it has so many fewer tomato babies to feed, the fruit is larger on this plant than on the original... about 2 1/2 inches or more across vs. 1 1/2 to 2".

Is that normal? They are in the same size container with same amendments, fertilizer etc, but again the mass of one plant is probably 5 times or more than the clone.

Either way its been so much fun growing such a productive plant. We are in a resort rv park and all the neighnors made fun of our self watering containers when we first made some. Later though quite a few came over and asked where they could get instructions to make their own... lol. That plant looks more like a grape vine than a tomato plant! Craziest funnest thing ever. Im going to try to contine with clones of it until I find something as productive thats tastier.

Ginny

[Tormato]

Originally Posted by feldon30

There are about 6,000 tomato varieties, but don't worry, you don't have to grow them all the same year.

Of the modern hybrids, I like Big Beef.

I've heard there's likely 20,000+ varieties. I have doubts about 6,000 because I don't think I collected seeds from about half of them in only a couple of years.

Gary