sunfish

Thanks same to you.

On top of all the ones listed and some I missed ,I bought a mixed pack of 500 seed with 100 different heirloom varieties . Now to fined a place to plant them.

Dalmatiansoap

I belive that all Croatian open market doesnt have 100 different tomato varieties

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sunfish

There are many (around 7500) tomato varieties grown for various purposes.

Dalmatiansoap

I just cant imagine (no meter how hard I try) 7500 differences in single tomato

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Jack Daw

Yet they are soooo different. Texture, flavor (acidic, sweeter...), color, shapes, amount of seeds, flesh... and believe me or not, there are tomatoes you wouldn't like with half the meals you are having them now with and there are those you would eat everyday like apples and oranges.
Tomatoes can also highly contribute to your vitamin portfolio and can be as refreshing during a hot day as any cold liquid (without having to suffer from sour throat).

Besides, they look well, grow pretty fast and have been one of the most cultivated and eaten vegetables (?) for centuries. After they were brought to France, they quickly spread to the rest of the Europe and have been the dominant summer food for half the Europe...

It's like Olives Ante, there's a whole science around it.




I just regret not being able to say what varieties I have. Some of them have been crossed so many times, that they are simply called Panonia 1... Panonia SR-7 or many others, which doesn't say much about their flavor or texture. So it's just many different nameless varieties. I especially like the orange, pear-shaped, sherry-sized tomatoes. They go with everything and to everything. Except ketchup of course. They add a strange color to each ketchup and it looks like some sort of very unpleasant and disgusting mixture of mustard and kari.

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Abnshrek

Well you see Ante its 7500 differences in 7500 types of tomato's. Some may seem simular to other's, but they just are not the same. :^)

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saltydad

I wish I had the room for a fraction of those varieties. I have a Patio in an urn, and Super Sweet 100's. I used to grow Supersonic, Big and Better Boy, Early Girl, etc. Now I'm contemplating what type of grape tomato to squeeze in. The upside down planter idea is sounding better and better.

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Abnshrek

I have 2 of those off the back deck. I'm going to end up going to the 5gallon buckets since they support more weight.

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Dalmatiansoap

Is a 5 gallon size minimum or optimum pot size for a single tomato in upside/down growth? Can they be smaller?

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sunfish

Depends on how large a tomato plant you grow.

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Abnshrek

I bet if you could find a real sturdy 1.5 gallon that's all you'd need since the root ball isn't tht large from the tomato's I've grown. You'd definately have to water it daily here..maybe twice a day since its so hot in the summer. :^) I was thinking about growing potato's upsidedown then all my taters are in the bucket just sift them out :^) That's what the 5 gallon was for.. Wah lah

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turtile

Only the width is significant. Plant roots don't grow upwards.

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Scuba_Dave

I usually have 100+ plants grown from seed
On a good year they grown over 8' tall down by the stream
On a bad year maybe only 6'
Bad crops the past 2 years.....heavy rains...blight....hoping

I'm hoping for a better harvest this year

sunfish

Jelly Bean

Scuba_Dave

Mine aren't even flowering yet....but I have ~173 plants

PennyG

173.....holy cow, thats impressive Scuba Dave.

That jelly bean tomato is neat........do you save seeds Sunfish

Jananas Bananas

Those Yellow Pear heirloom tomatoes are very, very good though smaller than I thought they would be. Not impressed with the black ones. I know they don't look black to me either (JD's C Tex Special Early Black).

~JaNan

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