Spudakee

b54red · May 10, 2011

This is my first year for this variety and so far I am really impressed. I have kept it pruned to a couple of stems and it is now well over 4 ft tall; but what is so impressive is the fruit set. I was on my little garden stool picking beans in a bed next to a tomato bed and so I started looking at the fruit set on each tomato plant. I counted 36 dime and up tomatoes on the Spudakee with plenty of blooms left to set. The 90s are here now so the fruit set will probably drop off a good bit or stop but this thing has set more fruit than even my cherry tomatoes so far. I hope the fusarium and TSWV will leave it alone long enough for me to pick just what is on it now. My Cherokee Purple is not setting that much so far nor did the one I grew last year. I'm going to start some more Spudakee seed and see how this thing does in mid summer and fall.

May 10, 2011	#1
b54red Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Alabama Posts: 7,068	Spudakee This is my first year for this variety and so far I am really impressed. I have kept it pruned to a couple of stems and it is now well over 4 ft tall; but what is so impressive is the fruit set. I was on my little garden stool picking beans in a bed next to a tomato bed and so I started looking at the fruit set on each tomato plant. I counted 36 dime and up tomatoes on the Spudakee with plenty of blooms left to set. The 90s are here now so the fruit set will probably drop off a good bit or stop but this thing has set more fruit than even my cherry tomatoes so far. I hope the fusarium and TSWV will leave it alone long enough for me to pick just what is on it now. My Cherokee Purple is not setting that much so far nor did the one I grew last year. I'm going to start some more Spudakee seed and see how this thing does in mid summer and fall.