alston everlasting a little longer

[rxkeith]

my tomato season this year was a bust.
the last tomato standing was alston everlasting, a red cherry tomato i obtained in trade from a texas grower. seeds for this one are gone, so i babied this plant in a 5 gallon bucket as long as i could. during frosts i would put the plant in our old sauna building.
a couple days before a frost turned everything to mush, the green tomatoes on the plant disappeared. i suspect mice. i took a couple cuttings, rooted them and planted them in 1 gallon buckets. they are on a window sill, putting on new growth. one has a marble sized tomato on it thats slowly growing. yaaaah.
now, i have 6 months of winter weather to try to keep these plants alive. i expect to be doing a lot of pinching back new growth to keep the plants manageable. at some point they will get pot bound, and i'll have to either repot or take new cuttings. or i can just quit after getting a ripe tomato. i am not considering using grow lights for this project.
any helpful tips will be appreciated. i have a lot of tomato growing experience, just not this kind.



keith