Amish Paste

[Tomstrees]

I'm sure others
are growing this variety -
My question is:
is your plant healthy but
"droopy" at the same time ?
Even after a good watering?
It looks healthy ... but just
seems ... "droopy" ~ lol ~
is yours ?

~ Tom

[jwr6404]

can't speak for Amish Paste but my Moms Paste is exactly as you described. Could it be a trait of paste tomatos. Moms paste is the first paste tomato for me.

jim

[travis]

Tom,

I have Amish Paste from two sources. One is from a lady who grew her seedlings "organic" and the other I bought from a fellow who vends Chef Jeff plants.

Neither plant has impressed me so far as vigor, foliage, or blossom set. Neither appears "droopy" but both are rather sparce regarding foliage. The older of the two has yet to set a blossom although it has put out three clusters of buds.

Both the plants have regular leaf foliage with those long individual leaflets that have distinctly saw-toothed edges. One plant looks a little different, I think, than the other with regard to the serrations along the edges of the leaflets with the "organic" one looking like the teeth on a cross cut saw, and the Chef Jeff having finer serration.

By the way, those "Lancaster County Pink" from Amishland Seeds, touted as a mystery PL, look very very similar to the two Amish Paste with regard to foliage. I'm curious as to how the fruit from all these compares.

PV

[Tomstrees]

I have it written down who
my source was .... def. did not buy
them ... I'm curious about the
differences as well ~

Tom

ps.
The plant just seems "droopy",
way after a good watering ~

[nctomatoman]

Yes, Tom - that is appropriate for Amish Paste, which is consistent with oblong or nearly heart shaped or elongated varieties. Though not as spindly a young seedling as Prue or Rinaldo or Speckled Roman, Amish has the spindly, floppy, slender leaf characteristics of those. It does eventually make a pretty vigorous full plant - though I have trouble growing it in Raleigh, as it appears to be very prone to Fusarium wilt.