Member discussion regarding the methods, varieties and merits of growing tomatoes.
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July 26, 2013 | #1 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Norwich, New York
Posts: 255
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Oops, I think I have the wrong tomato plant
My wife, who loves tomatoes of all kinds, picked out a couple of cherry tomato plants this Spring. She wanted another cherry tomato growing besides the Black Pearls in the garden. While we were at Lowe's this Spring she picked up a couple of Sweet 100's plants and asked me to grow them for her. Normally, I only grow a few cherry tomato plants because they grow so large and produce a lot of tomatoes. I planted them at the end of a row and didn't pay too much attention to them. A week or so ago, I noticed that the tomatoes on the Sweet 100's were getting larger than normal and their shape was different than I remembered Sweet 100's to be. The tomatoes on the plant are now starting to ripen but the plants are only 4 to 5 feet high (determinate???). The last time I grew this variety, they grew to be almost 9 feet in height and had a spread of about 4 feet. The so-called Sweet 100's that I'm growing look almost like a Marglobe. Also, the tomatoes on the vine range from golf ball size to baseball size. Not normal for this variety, and they're not growing in the normal clusters like most cherry types. I've enclosed a few pictures and maybe someone can give a guess to what variety of tomato these might be. Each plant has more than a hundred tomatoes on the vine. Definitely a high producing plant. I think someone at Bonnie Plants made a labeling mistake when they potted these tomato plants.
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