Carrot-like variety which isn't determinate...?

Torquill · July 30, 2017

Hey all, long time no see.

I picked up a tomato plant when I was checking over the plants for the local Master Gardener sale... there was a carrot-like plant in the middle of a flat of Mortgage Lifter. Probably a stray seed in the packet, I figured, and took it home (because what else would you do with it? ) It has since grown into a very vigorous bush, and though it is losing a bunch of its lower leaves to mites -- this is why I normally don't grow carrot types -- it's pumping out lots of oblate red tomatoes with a lower level of sweetness than I normally go for. The foliage is as green as its neighbors, but I suppose if you squint it might possibly seem kind of silvery. Okay, Silvery Fir Tree, right?

Every description I've seen of SFT says it's determinate, though, and this.... isn't. There are three leaves between flower trusses, and even though we're more than four months into the season, it's still reaching out vigorous shoots with new flower buds on them, no terminal bud in sight.

Any ideas? I figured it would be easy to identify this guy, since there's less than five known carrot-types, but of course it's never that simple....

--S

July 30, 2017	#1
Torquill Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Willamina, OR (Zone 8a/Sunset 4) Posts: 26	Carrot-like variety which isn't determinate...? Hey all, long time no see. I picked up a tomato plant when I was checking over the plants for the local Master Gardener sale... there was a carrot-like plant in the middle of a flat of Mortgage Lifter. Probably a stray seed in the packet, I figured, and took it home (because what else would you do with it? ) It has since grown into a very vigorous bush, and though it is losing a bunch of its lower leaves to mites -- this is why I normally don't grow carrot types -- it's pumping out lots of oblate red tomatoes with a lower level of sweetness than I normally go for. The foliage is as green as its neighbors, but I suppose if you squint it might possibly seem kind of silvery. Okay, Silvery Fir Tree, right? Every description I've seen of SFT says it's determinate, though, and this.... isn't. There are three leaves between flower trusses, and even though we're more than four months into the season, it's still reaching out vigorous shoots with new flower buds on them, no terminal bud in sight. Any ideas? I figured it would be easy to identify this guy, since there's less than five known carrot-types, but of course it's never that simple.... --S __________________ Heisenberg + Schroedinger = Humdinger!