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Old 05-05-2007, 03:08 PM posted to rec.gardens
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Default What is the best cherry tomato plant for growing in pots on balcony?

On May 4, 9:17 pm, "SharkMan BMW" wrote:
My balcony is south-facing, lots of sun all day.
If climate is an issue, I live in Montreal, Canada.
I would like to know which kind of cherry tomato plant would be best suited
to growing in pots on my balcony.
Thank you for your input!

There's a guy on my local hort group who has Red Robin and Yellow
Canary cherry tomatoes growing in 5" pots, although he says he
normally puts them in 12" pots. He has other varieties of dwarves as
well. He apparently started the seeds January 1 and they are producing
now - he says they normally take about 100 days, but they got slowed
down by some cloudy weather. They might be heritage tomatoes so I
don't know how readily available they are.

I've tried Sweet 100's and Sugar snack in much larger pots - probably
about 15" wide and the same deep. Sugar snack was better producer,
but I preferred the taste of the Sweet 100's. I've also tried sweet
1000's. They grew well, but it got cold early that year and I didn't
get much out of them.

Dora