Omar's Lebanese Question

[Too Tall Toms]

I'm considering growing Omar's Lebanese in my garden next year and according to Carolyn Male it's one of the largest varieties out there with tomatoes getting in the 3-4 pound range.
I was looking at Tatiana's website and the description of Omar's mentioned that some of the tomatoes had semi-hollow seed cavities and the pictures did show that.
Had anybody experienced anything like that with Omar's Lebanese?

[Fusion_power]

Many of the jumbo size tomatoes have semi-hollow seed locules. Tennessee Britches is one that can be extreme under some conditions. I have not had enough of a problem with Omar's to notice it.

DarJones

[Too Tall Toms]

Cool....Thanks for the info!

[kygreg]

Fusion,

What kind of size did you get for those 2 varieties. Most of my Omar's Lebanese were in the 10-16 oz size and nothing close to 3lbs or even 2 lbs. I was not using any special growing tehniques for size. I have not grown TB, the best I remember.

thanks

[SEAMSFASTER]

I've grown Omar's Lebanese for two years now and have not noticed any semi-hollow seed cavities.

For me this year, Homer's German Oxheart got larger but had significant hollowness of seed locules.

[Too Tall Toms]

so in order to get these giant Omar's Lebanese, I might have to do some selective flower removal? What other techniques?

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by Too Tall Toms

I'm considering growing Omar's Lebanese in my garden next year and according to Carolyn Male it's one of the largest varieties out there with tomatoes getting in the 3-4 pound range.
I was looking at Tatiana's website and the description of Omar's mentioned that some of the tomatoes had semi-hollow seed cavities and the pictures did show that.
Had anybody experienced anything like that with Omar's Lebanese?

In my book I said that it could be a minimum of 1# and some up to 3-4#, that's correct, but the higher weights would be rare and usually found in a very wet summer. And yes, for me as grown where I am and how I grow tomatoes the fruits were never less than about one pound.

I don't know if it's one of THE largest out there, Marv Meisner would say no way, but when someone asks what varieties can grow large I usually list that one as well as Large Pink Bulgarian, Cuostralee, Red Barn, Zogola and a few more.

I have seen some hollow locules a few times with Zogola as well as with the Tennesse Britches that Darrel referred to. But seeing that in a season or two I don't think is any reason to avoid those varieties or any others, for that matter, that occasionally show hollowness.

From the time that Omar Saab first gave me the seeds I've grown it many times and have never seen any hollowness, but I think that's mainly due to environmental conditions that I can't specify in any detail.

Personally I have no interest at all in growing large sized varieties b'c I grow tomatoes primarily for taste alone, and if those tasty ones have great production, then all to the good.

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by Too Tall Toms

so in order to get these giant Omar's Lebanese, I might have to do some selective flower removal? What other techniques?

I just posted to you, my post just above yours which I'm sure you didn't see.

To get large tomatoes of any variety it starts with the genes that that variety has and then there are several techniques that folks interested in doing that use to grow competition size fruits, which is all they really are interested in.

First, use the search feature here to find posts by lubadub, who is Marv Meisner to whom I referred to above and posted here quite recently but as he's said to me, most folks here aren'/t that interested in growing large size fruits, which I think is true. If I had the time I'd go searching for you. But I'm remembering that I think it's in a thread that Seamfaster started and had to do with Big Zac F1.

Second, consider buying Marv's book on How to grow large tomatoes.

[Too Tall Toms]

Wow....THE Carolyn is here. LOL...excellent.

Thanks for that info

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by Too Tall Toms

Wow....THE Carolyn is here. LOL...excellent.

http://www.tomatoville.com/showthread.php?t=19937

Here's the thread I was referring to and again you missed some posts above.

Yes, Carolyn has been here as a Global Moderator since Jan of 2006 when Tomatoville first started.

[Too Tall Toms]

I didn't miss any posts in this thread. I've read every one.

Anyway, I was reading another thread I found about Big Zac....some interesting information. Thanks for the link you just posted.