|
|
Post by reuben on Dec 13, 2018 19:06:04 GMT -5
I'm going to retry an old favorite - Supersweet 100. Tried Supersweet 1000 once, but it wasn't nearly as good.
|
|
|
|
Post by lisaann on Dec 13, 2018 19:30:56 GMT -5
|
|
|
|
Post by binnylou on Dec 13, 2018 19:33:38 GMT -5
|
|
|
|
Post by desertwoman on Dec 13, 2018 19:35:22 GMT -5
sungold does better in drier climates, guess that is why desertwoman loves it. All I know is that they do fantastically in my garden and require only twice a week watering in the hottest part of summer so I figure- why mess with a good thing? They are so sweet friends eat them like candy off the plant. |
|
|
|
Post by lisaann on Dec 13, 2018 19:39:27 GMT -5
binnylou , Oh H on page 88. Nope, never tried them. Grow them UP! a trellis. Sounds fun for someone to try!
|
|
|
|
Post by reuben on Dec 13, 2018 19:53:51 GMT -5
|
|
|
|
Post by pepperhead212 on Dec 14, 2018 1:00:01 GMT -5
I tried supersweet 100 years ago, I think around when it first came out. Way back, before I began starting all of my own seedlings, I grew sweet 100 right next to sunsugar (Or sungold, whichever it was that year!) - 2 of the only cherry tomatoes the local greenhouse carried (LOOOOONG before the big chains around now), and the sweet 100 was flavorless in comparison, though it produced a huge number of tomatoes. Years later, I saw the new supersweet 100, so I tried some seeds, and it was OK; better flavor, but still not as much flavor as sunsugar or sungold. It also produced a LOT, however! If I start tomato plants 8 weeks early, I have to transplant them, but then, maybe that's what you always do. |
|
|
|
Post by Mumsey on Dec 14, 2018 4:37:13 GMT -5
lisaann, I grow a cherry called Sprite. It's a grape shape, prolific as all get out, sweet, crunchy. I can share a few seeds with ya! 2 plants are enough for me AND market!
|
|
|
|
Post by pepperhead212 on Dec 14, 2018 16:09:25 GMT -5
How large does the Sprite grow, Mumsey? It must be huge, to supply you like that! Many of the cherries I've grown are taller than I am, and back down the trellis, and they still aren't enough for me! |
|
|
|
Post by lisaann on Dec 14, 2018 17:32:12 GMT -5
but then, maybe that's what you always do. Yep, I always pot up. I like to do that stuff, but I don't grow 20 to 30 tomato plants, so it is no big deal, and my indoor lights are on chains, so, just a thing I do.............. Mumsey , Thanks for the offer. Maybe next year. I'm already planned out in the department this year. I have never met a cherry tomato that required 2, to keep me supplied. That is a GREAT question! What cherry tomato does not produce many tomatoes? I can't wait to find out! |
|
|
|
Post by pepperhead212 on Dec 14, 2018 21:26:40 GMT -5
I guess I just eat a lot more cherry tomatoes than the average gardener! Those green tigers I use like cherry tomatoes - quartered, rather than halved, and between those, sunsugar, and whatever else I grow in the particular year, I eat most of the small tomatoes from 6 plants every year! I give a few away, and friends eat a bunch of those salads I make with them, but most are eaten by me.
And then there are the larger tomatoes!
|
|
|
|
Post by Mumsey on Dec 15, 2018 4:17:36 GMT -5
pepperhead212, Yes, Sprite gets nearly as big as the heirlooms, up over the 5 ft cage! Do you want to try some seeds?
|
|
|
|
Post by pepperhead212 on Dec 15, 2018 13:22:47 GMT -5
Mumsey I'd like to try those. I remember looking them up when you first mentioned them (whenever that was!), but it was described as a determinate, and several growers said that it was only a 3' plant. But what you describe is quite different, and several describe the plant as "producing until killed by frost", and similar terms, which sounds like an indeterminate. It sounds like those dwarfs I grew, that only got 4-5' tall, but were indeterminate. I figure I'll grow it on the trellis where I grew the dwarfs, since it doesn't need the much larger trellises the cherries grew on. The only new cherry I have, so far, is Cherry Bomb, from pinetree. It is supposed to have resistance to late blight, which is why I am trying it.
|
|
|
|
Post by Mumsey on Dec 15, 2018 17:35:46 GMT -5
pepperhead212, It's way more than 3 feet and produces a long time. I find it growing over into other tomatoes! I'll send you a few seeds. I'll be digging around the stash next week.
|
|
|
|
Post by pepperhead212 on Dec 15, 2018 18:16:20 GMT -5
Thanks Mumsey. I was thinking that maybe you save seeds for those, and that the plants have slowly gotten larger through the years? Or have they always been that large? |
|
