Here's why I grow Super Sweet 100

QAGuy · June 19, 2021

Lots of yield.

GoDawgs · June 19, 2021

Wow! Talk about a plant being covered. Thanks for posting that.

jmsieglaff · June 19, 2021

Wow impressive! Is it PL? Don’t see many commercial PL plants it seems.

QAGuy · June 20, 2021

Regular leaf.

MSchep · June 21, 2021

Looks great, no surprise on production. Only reason I stopped with SS100 is that they seemed to split more than others. I might consider going back to them, and then just be more regimented in harvesting early.

slugworth · June 21, 2021

I went with the sweet million again this year,but too soon for photos.
I just planted a few weeks ago.Difficult plant to find around here.

Greatgardens · June 25, 2021

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Originally Posted by slugworth

I went with the sweet million again this year,but too soon for photos.
I just planted a few weeks ago.Difficult plant to find around here.

Haven't grown SS100 for many, many years, but I quit because of splitting and small size. I'd much rather pick 1 large cherry than 2 small ones. I've never grown Sweet Million. Please let us know how it does for you.

Edit: Thinking some more about it, it was Sweet 100 that I grew. SS100 supposedly added something -- some kind of disease resistance?

simmran1 · June 22, 2021

Qa, I'm curious about your soil composition and fertilization to get the multi-flora type of yield like that, could you share?

QAGuy · June 22, 2021

A bit of backround to start. I live in the foothills of the San Gabriel mountains just outside of Los Angeles.

My native soil is crap, to put it mildly. It's called caliche and is basically small rock particles from the mountains and calcium carbonate mixed together. Caliche is used to make adobe bricks. Some water, a binder such as straw and caliche is mixed together, put into a mold and left to bake in the sun. Makes a hard, durable brick. The California missions were built from the late 1790's through the 1830's. Many still stand today.

There's a product called Kellogg's AMEND which (according to them) is specially formulated for caliche soil. I can't tell you how many bags of this stuff I've added to the garden outside of LOTS of bags.

I use my grass clippings as a mulch through the growing season and dig that in over the winter.

I can get free compost from our local waste management company. They hold a compost giveaway every spring through my town. I can get 30 gal every year.

I also get free coffee grounds from my local eatery, also around 30 gal a year. Coffee grounds are a good addition to the garden. It's organic too if that matters to you. Worms love coffee grounds. I have lots of worms in my tomato plot.

Both of these get dug in before planting out.

Didn't get coffee grounds or compost this year due to COVID, but it doesn't seem to have hurt anything this year. Will resume again next year.

I have a California Live Oak in the parkway at my place. It puts out lots and lots of pollen. So much so that it piles up in the gutter of the street. This year, since I didn't have compost or coffee grounds, I decided to use the pollen and flowers as my organic amendment. Don't know how much difference that made, but my tomatoes sure look good. Might have to add that to the yearly rejuvenation of the tomato beds.

I use MiracleGro for tomatoes as fertilizer. I fertilize weekly. Make sure it's the FOR TOMATOES version of MiracleGro. Been using that stuff for 30+ years. See no reason to change.

slugworth · June 26, 2021

I will take pics once the plants get bigger and produce.
I had to search 5 or 6 places locally before I found the plants again this year.
I've only seen farmer phil as a source.

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Sweet Million is one type of cherry tomato in our selection. These tomatoes are characterized by a smaller size, only one to 1.25 inches across. Also, because of the size, these tomatoes are ideal to be grown in pots. Like most varieties, Sweet Million tomatoes are heat and humidity friendly and should be harvested during summer or early fall before frost sets in. As sweet million tomatoes are indeterminate vining, they need some kind of trellis or stake to catch on.

JerryHaskins · July 4, 2021

I picked these 2 days ago. I have 2 Sweet 100 plants.

I gave them to neighbors. We have had plenty already.

June 20, 2021	#4
QAGuy Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2006 Location: Glendora, CA Posts: 167	Regular leaf. __________________ "We have met the enemy and he is us" - Pogo

June 22, 2021	#8
simmran1 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Iowa Zone 5 Posts: 305	Qa, I'm curious about your soil composition and fertilization to get the multi-flora type of yield like that, could you share? __________________ Tomatovillain

June 22, 2021	#9
QAGuy Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2006 Location: Glendora, CA Posts: 167	A bit of backround to start. I live in the foothills of the San Gabriel mountains just outside of Los Angeles. My native soil is crap, to put it mildly. It's called caliche and is basically small rock particles from the mountains and calcium carbonate mixed together. Caliche is used to make adobe bricks. Some water, a binder such as straw and caliche is mixed together, put into a mold and left to bake in the sun. Makes a hard, durable brick. The California missions were built from the late 1790's through the 1830's. Many still stand today. There's a product called Kellogg's AMEND which (according to them) is specially formulated for caliche soil. I can't tell you how many bags of this stuff I've added to the garden outside of LOTS of bags. I use my grass clippings as a mulch through the growing season and dig that in over the winter. I can get free compost from our local waste management company. They hold a compost giveaway every spring through my town. I can get 30 gal every year. I also get free coffee grounds from my local eatery, also around 30 gal a year. Coffee grounds are a good addition to the garden. It's organic too if that matters to you. Worms love coffee grounds. I have lots of worms in my tomato plot. Both of these get dug in before planting out. Didn't get coffee grounds or compost this year due to COVID, but it doesn't seem to have hurt anything this year. Will resume again next year. I have a California Live Oak in the parkway at my place. It puts out lots and lots of pollen. So much so that it piles up in the gutter of the street. This year, since I didn't have compost or coffee grounds, I decided to use the pollen and flowers as my organic amendment. Don't know how much difference that made, but my tomatoes sure look good. Might have to add that to the yearly rejuvenation of the tomato beds. I use MiracleGro for tomatoes as fertilizer. I fertilize weekly. Make sure it's the FOR TOMATOES version of MiracleGro. Been using that stuff for 30+ years. See no reason to change. __________________ "We have met the enemy and he is us" - Pogo

June 19, 2021	#2
GoDawgs Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2018 Location: Augusta area, Georgia, 8a/7b Posts: 1,685	Wow! Talk about a plant being covered. Thanks for posting that.

June 19, 2021	#3
jmsieglaff Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Southern WI Posts: 2,742	Wow impressive! Is it PL? Don’t see many commercial PL plants it seems.

June 21, 2021	#5
MSchep Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2016 Location: Los Gatos, CA Posts: 70	Looks great, no surprise on production. Only reason I stopped with SS100 is that they seemed to split more than others. I might consider going back to them, and then just be more regimented in harvesting early.

June 21, 2021	#6
slugworth Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: connecticut,usa Posts: 1,152	I went with the sweet million again this year,but too soon for photos. I just planted a few weeks ago.Difficult plant to find around here.