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Post by DarJones on Dec 19, 2018 13:36:44 GMT -5
I'm going to grow the biggest tomato you've ever seen this year! Best pull your seed out and get started. I have one tray going already and about to start a few more.   |
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Dec 20, 2018 20:53:15 GMT -5
I'll go ahead and concede right now. The largest I can realistically hope for is in the neighborhood of 12 ounces. My climate is much more suitable for 8 ounce fruits.
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Post by diane on Dec 20, 2018 22:56:13 GMT -5
I've got some seeds for you. Sicilian Saucer. Grew up above my head and finally produced one big tomato. Useless.
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Post by RpR on Dec 26, 2018 20:30:11 GMT -5
How do you grow large tomatoes that do not split open.
I have grown some nice sized ones but as often as not they split open or fall on the ground and go spllllaaaatttt.
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Post by richardw on Dec 26, 2018 23:57:12 GMT -5
When i was able to bring in tomato seed in 10+ years ago I got some seed through Tomatoville a tomato called Hoy, it was huge,I ended up with fruit of close to one kg or 2.3 pounds, not sure what 12 ounces is but does this come close.
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Post by templeton on Jan 4, 2019 1:52:36 GMT -5
I saw enormous ones last year in italy. They were very tender - no idea how the growers got them to market looking good.
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Post by DarJones on Jan 4, 2019 8:21:09 GMT -5
99% of growing big tomatoes is starting with genetics that can produce large fruit. Mortgage Lifter Red, Mortgage Lifter Radiator Charlie strain, Mortgage Lifter Estler's, Omar's Lebanese, and Zogola are a few examples of varieties that can throw 2+ pounders.
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Post by walt on Jan 4, 2019 12:13:03 GMT -5
Sounds like a list of varieties I should cross with S. pimpinellifolium to get bigger hybrids. Bigger than cherry sized tomato hybrids, I mean, not bigger than those on your list.
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Post by RpR on Jul 27, 2019 18:34:22 GMT -5
Well it has been 7 months how goes the humongous tomato?
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Post by prairiegardens on Dec 20, 2019 1:37:03 GMT -5
I'm going to grow the biggest tomato you've ever seen this year! Best pull your seed out and get started. I have one tray going already and about to start a few more. No word on how that all went! I was looking up some "large" beefsteak tomatoes on Tatiana's tonight and sort of gave up, that site is too huge to cope with in just a couple of sittings. What varieties did you plant and how did they do? |
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Post by reed on Dec 20, 2019 5:30:45 GMT -5
I was wondering about that too. When I was a kid we grew giant tomatoes. I pretty sure they were brandywine. I remember they were pink color. Years later the brandywine I grew didn't compare at all. I do get an occasional very large tomato from various kinds but seems like if it makes really big tomatoes it only makes a few. I'd rather have lots of smaller ones.
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Post by flowerbug on Dec 23, 2019 10:50:47 GMT -5
i didn't know that growing larger tomatoes was a challenge. we normally grow beefsteak varieties in our heavy soil they seem to do ok. most years 20 - 40lbs per plant. some years they grow with a lot of strange shapes, but they are still edible, it just takes a lot more work to get them canned.  |
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Post by prairiegardens on Dec 31, 2019 17:22:58 GMT -5
that is one complicated tomato! what variety was it?
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Post by flowerbug on Jan 1, 2020 14:46:55 GMT -5
that is one complicated tomato! what variety was it?
a beefsteak variety that we've used for years. i suspected the greenhouse got some wrong seeds or something happened somewhere but perhaps it was the heat that season. a lot of tomatoes we grew had a lot of those inclusions in them. this past season we had some tomatoes which had a little of that going on but nothing like that one.
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Post by 12540dumont on Jan 16, 2020 13:51:59 GMT -5
So, Dar how'd that all go? Your tomatoes are the best.
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