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a better grape tomato?
I grew a sweet 100 the other year and found the vast amount of waste
discouraging. Lots of popped fruit, rotting on the vine, tomatoes dropping from the plant as ai harvest, a black sea of squirming ants under the plant. It reseeded like crazy. Anybody have a grape-sized tomato plant that has a more useful yield? DiGiTAL ViNYL (no email) Zone 6b/7, Westchester Co, NY, 1 mile off L.I.Sound 3rd year gardener http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/royalf...=/2055&.src=ph |
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a better grape tomato?
DigitalVinyl wrote:
I grew a sweet 100 the other year and found the vast amount of waste discouraging. Lots of popped fruit, rotting on the vine, tomatoes dropping from the plant as ai harvest, a black sea of squirming ants under the plant. It reseeded like crazy. Anybody have a grape-sized tomato plant that has a more useful yield? DiGiTAL ViNYL (no email) Zone 6b/7, Westchester Co, NY, 1 mile off L.I.Sound 3rd year gardener http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/royalf...=/2055&.src=ph There is an improved version of Sweet 100 called Sweet Million FNT Hybrid. It has much better disease resistance and resists cracking. A couple others that I like that resist cracking are Sweet Baby Girl Hybrid T (an early cherry tomato) and Marcellino Hybrid. If you like small yellow tomatoes try Ildi (also called Yellow Grape) or Dr. Carolyn, a pale yellow small tomato with very good flavor. You can get seeds for these varieties from Totally Tomatoes, http://www.totallytomato.com or Tomato Growers Supply Company, http://www.tomatogrowers.com -- Bill R. (Ohio Valley, U.S.A) Gardening Since 1969 For pictures of my garden flowers visit http://members.iglou.com/brosen Remove NO_WEEDS_ in e-mail address to reply by e-mail |
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a better grape tomato?
DigitalVinyl wrote:
I grew a sweet 100 the other year and found the vast amount of waste discouraging. Lots of popped fruit, rotting on the vine, tomatoes dropping from the plant as ai harvest, a black sea of squirming ants under the plant. It reseeded like crazy. Anybody have a grape-sized tomato plant that has a more useful yield? Juliet. I grew them for the last two years. I had to surround a large tomato cage with three other cages to hold all the branches, and a single plant provided me with around a dozen grape-sized tomatoes starting in early August, and continuing on to early October. Nice, sweet flavor, too. I'm very impressed with it. I should mention that as the season went on, I did get more cracking fruit, but even tossing out the cracked fruit, my yield was high. And part of the reason for the cracking fruit was I just wasn't harvesting fast enough. -- Warren H. ========== Disclaimer: My views reflect those of myself, and not my employer, my friends, nor (as she often tells me) my wife. Any resemblance to the views of anybody living or dead is coincidental. No animals were hurt in the writing of this response -- unless you count my dog who desperately wants to go outside now. Power Lawncare Tools for Spring Clean-up: http://www.holzemville.com/mall/blackanddecker/ |
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a better grape tomato?
"Warren" wrote in message
DigitalVinyl wrote: I grew a sweet 100 the other year and found the vast amount of waste discouraging. Lots of popped fruit, rotting on the vine, tomatoes dropping from the plant as ai harvest, a black sea of squirming ants under the plant. It reseeded like crazy. Anybody have a grape-sized tomato plant that has a more useful yield? Juliet. I grew them for the last two years. I had to surround a large tomato cage with three other cages to hold all the branches, and a single plant provided me with around a dozen grape-sized tomatoes starting in early August, and continuing on to early October. Nice, sweet flavor, too. I'm very impressed with it. I should mention that as the season went on, I did get more cracking fruit, but even tossing out the cracked fruit, my yield was high. And part of the reason for the cracking fruit was I just wasn't harvesting fast enough. One tomato produced a whole 12 tomatoes? WOW. -- Travis in Shoreline (just North of Seattle) Washington USDA Zone 8 Sunset Zone 5 |
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a better grape tomato?
I had a similar experience with sweet 100. I liked the red pear
tomatoes better, but I don't recall the name. I know they are bigger than the grapes, but I didn't get so overwhelmed towards the end of the season. FYI, cracked tomatoes can sometimes be caused by uneven watering. If the plants get dried out and then are given too much water the fruit expands too fast and cracks the skin open. Laura DigitalVinyl wrote: I grew a sweet 100 the other year and found the vast amount of waste discouraging. Lots of popped fruit, rotting on the vine, tomatoes dropping from the plant as ai harvest, a black sea of squirming ants under the plant. It reseeded like crazy. Anybody have a grape-sized tomato plant that has a more useful yield? DiGiTAL ViNYL (no email) Zone 6b/7, Westchester Co, NY, 1 mile off L.I.Sound 3rd year gardener http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/royalf...=/2055&.src=ph |
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a better grape tomato?
I only had room to grow one tomato. I got one from a produce stand which also had
some plants. The first one ripened and it was so bad I pulled the rest of the plant out and dumped it. the green tomatoes one by one ripened and not even my dogs would eat them. my mother swore by "sweet millions" but I dont see the plants for sale. Ingrid ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List Manager: Puregold Goldfish List at http://weloveteaching.com/puregold/ sign up: http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?...s=Group+lookup www.drsolo.com Solve the problem, dont waste energy finding who's to blame ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I receive no money, gifts, discounts or other compensation for all the damn work I do, nor for any of the recommendations I make. AND I DID NOT AUTHORIZE ADS AT THE OLD PUREGOLD SITE |
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a better grape tomato?
On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 23:27:51 GMT, DigitalVinyl
wrote: I grew a sweet 100 the other year and found the vast amount of waste discouraging. Lots of popped fruit, rotting on the vine, tomatoes dropping from the plant as ai harvest, a black sea of squirming ants under the plant. It reseeded like crazy. Anybody have a grape-sized tomato plant that has a more useful yield? DiGiTAL ViNYL (no email) Zone 6b/7, Westchester Co, NY, 1 mile off L.I.Sound 3rd year gardener http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/royalf...=/2055&.src=ph Interesting terminology. Would the Eastern "grape" tomato be the same as the California "cherry" tomato? Persephone |
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a better grape tomato?
"Warren" wrote:
DigitalVinyl wrote: I grew a sweet 100 the other year and found the vast amount of waste discouraging. Lots of popped fruit, rotting on the vine, tomatoes dropping from the plant as ai harvest, a black sea of squirming ants under the plant. It reseeded like crazy. Anybody have a grape-sized tomato plant that has a more useful yield? Juliet. I grew them for the last two years. I had to surround a large tomato cage with three other cages to hold all the branches, and a single plant provided me with around a dozen grape-sized tomatoes starting in early August, and continuing on to early October. Nice, sweet flavor, too. I'm very impressed with it. I should mention that as the season went on, I did get more cracking fruit, but even tossing out the cracked fruit, my yield was high. And part of the reason for the cracking fruit was I just wasn't harvesting fast enough. I have to say, my yield was tremendous as was the plant. It grew to a six foot high two foot diameter bush with arms continuing to grow and flopping down another four feet over the top of the cage. It was the waste--which I would estimate probably reached 50% that I hated. That any the moldy, slushy rotten ones sitting on the vine propped right against good ones. And when you see a big patch of black ground then notice its moving and then realize it is a million swarming ants--kinda gross. Thanks DiGiTAL ViNYL (no email) Zone 6b/7, Westchester Co, NY, 1 mile off L.I.Sound 4th year gardener http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/royalf...=/2055&.src=ph |
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a better grape tomato?
"Laura at theGardenPages" wrote:
I had a similar experience with sweet 100. I liked the red pear tomatoes better, but I don't recall the name. I know they are bigger than the grapes, but I didn't get so overwhelmed towards the end of the season. FYI, cracked tomatoes can sometimes be caused by uneven watering. If the plants get dried out and then are given too much water the fruit expands too fast and cracks the skin open. Laura It could have been the year--that may have been a rainy year. Other plants in the patch didn't seem water stressed(too much/too little)--actually did very well. Last year I had a lot of problem with cracking on heirlooms, but that was due to my job taking all my time It was also a new planting ground, although I gave the tomatoes the best pickings. They also dropped a lot of ripe fruit. Which was frustrating to see ripe fruit dropped yet split and moldy fruit still stuck on the vine squashed against new healthy ones. DigitalVinyl wrote: I grew a sweet 100 the other year and found the vast amount of waste discouraging. Lots of popped fruit, rotting on the vine, tomatoes dropping from the plant as ai harvest, a black sea of squirming ants under the plant. It reseeded like crazy. Anybody have a grape-sized tomato plant that has a more useful yield? DiGiTAL ViNYL (no email) Zone 6b/7, Westchester Co, NY, 1 mile off L.I.Sound 3rd year gardener http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/royalf...=/2055&.src=ph DiGiTAL ViNYL (no email) Zone 6b/7, Westchester Co, NY, 1 mile off L.I.Sound 4th year gardener http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/royalf...=/2055&.src=ph |
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a better grape tomato?
Persephone wrote:
On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 23:27:51 GMT, DigitalVinyl wrote: I grew a sweet 100 the other year and found the vast amount of waste discouraging. Lots of popped fruit, rotting on the vine, tomatoes dropping from the plant as ai harvest, a black sea of squirming ants under the plant. It reseeded like crazy. Anybody have a grape-sized tomato plant that has a more useful yield? DiGiTAL ViNYL (no email) Zone 6b/7, Westchester Co, NY, 1 mile off L.I.Sound 3rd year gardener http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/royalf...=/2055&.src=ph Interesting terminology. Would the Eastern "grape" tomato be the same as the California "cherry" tomato? Persephone They usually call them grape tomatoes in the grocery store. They are smaller than most cherries. Cherry tomatoes typically start with the size of a large cherry or larger, about 1 to 1.5 inches round. As you get to the 2 inch rounds they usally start calling them slicing tomatoes(unless elongated, then plum). Grape tomatoes are smaller. Typically they are about 1/2 inch round, sometimes slightly elongated, but not really longer than .75 inch. They are your average sized grape. DiGiTAL ViNYL (no email) Zone 6b/7, Westchester Co, NY, 1 mile off L.I.Sound 4th year gardener http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/royalf...=/2055&.src=ph |
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a better grape tomato?
DigitalVinyl wrote:
Interesting terminology. Would the Eastern "grape" tomato be the same as the California "cherry" tomato? They usually call them grape tomatoes in the grocery store. They are smaller than most cherries. Cherry tomatoes typically start with the size of a large cherry or larger, about 1 to 1.5 inches round. As you get to the 2 inch rounds they usally start calling them slicing tomatoes(unless elongated, then plum). Grape tomatoes are smaller. Typically they are about 1/2 inch round, sometimes slightly elongated, but not really longer than .75 inch. They are your average sized grape. Cherry tomatoes are small and round like a cherry. Grape tomatoes are small and elongated like a grape. Grape tomatoes can be larger or smaller than cherry tomatoes. In fact, most grape tomatoes I've seen are larger than the typical cherry tomato. So the primary difference between grape and cherry is the shape. -- Warren H. ========== Disclaimer: My views reflect those of myself, and not my employer, my friends, nor (as she often tells me) my wife. Any resemblance to the views of anybody living or dead is coincidental. No animals were hurt in the writing of this response -- unless you count my dog who desperately wants to go outside now. Power Lawncare Tools for Spring Clean-up: http://www.holzemville.com/mall/blackanddecker/ |
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a better grape tomato?
"Warren" wrote:
DigitalVinyl wrote: Interesting terminology. Would the Eastern "grape" tomato be the same as the California "cherry" tomato? They usually call them grape tomatoes in the grocery store. They are smaller than most cherries. Cherry tomatoes typically start with the size of a large cherry or larger, about 1 to 1.5 inches round. As you get to the 2 inch rounds they usally start calling them slicing tomatoes(unless elongated, then plum). Grape tomatoes are smaller. Typically they are about 1/2 inch round, sometimes slightly elongated, but not really longer than .75 inch. They are your average sized grape. Cherry tomatoes are small and round like a cherry. Grape tomatoes are small and elongated like a grape. Grape tomatoes can be larger or smaller than cherry tomatoes. In fact, most grape tomatoes I've seen are larger than the typical cherry tomato. That distinction makes sense, although I would think these are more marketing terms than scientific (tomatus cherrianus). Never seen a "grape" tomato offered as large as a typical cherry. Sweet 100's were significantly smaller than average cherry tomato I've grown-but are usually referred to in catalog as cherry, often with some adjective adjustment mini-, small, tiny, grape-sized. Until now I've thought of grape-sized as a multiple-in-the-mouth-at-once size where cherry is one-at-a-time. YRMV! So the primary difference between grape and cherry is the shape. DiGiTAL ViNYL (no email) Zone 6b/7, Westchester Co, NY, 1 mile off L.I.Sound 4th year gardener http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/royalf...=/2055&.src=ph |
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a better grape tomato?
DigitalVinyl wrote:
That distinction makes sense, although I would think these are more marketing terms than scientific (tomatus cherrianus). Absolutely. Never seen a "grape" tomato offered as large as a typical cherry. Sweet 100's were significantly smaller than average cherry tomato I've grown-but are usually referred to in catalog as cherry, often with some adjective adjustment mini-, small, tiny, grape-sized. Until now I've thought of grape-sized as a multiple-in-the-mouth-at-once size where cherry is one-at-a-time. YRMV! The "grape" tomatoes at regular supermarkets around here are usually small. But so are the cherry tomatoes. But if you go to Costco or one of the upscale supermarkets that prides itself on the best produce, you can find grape tomatoes that could be mistaken for small plum tomatoes (although not the plum tomatoes in those store, which are usually as big as your fist.) -- Warren H. ========== Disclaimer: My views reflect those of myself, and not my employer, my friends, nor (as she often tells me) my wife. Any resemblance to the views of anybody living or dead is coincidental. No animals were hurt in the writing of this response -- unless you count my dog who desperately wants to go outside now. Power Lawncare Tools for Spring Clean-up: http://www.holzemville.com/mall/blackanddecker/ |
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a better grape tomato?
In my experience, what I call cherry tomatoes have a thinner skin and are
more juicy. The grape tomatoes that I buy in the store have a thicker skin and an interior texture more similar to roma (plum type) tomatoes. So I'm thinking that they are more closely related to that strain of tomato. "Warren" wrote in message ... DigitalVinyl wrote: Interesting terminology. Would the Eastern "grape" tomato be the same as the California "cherry" tomato? They usually call them grape tomatoes in the grocery store. They are smaller than most cherries. Cherry tomatoes typically start with the size of a large cherry or larger, about 1 to 1.5 inches round. As you get to the 2 inch rounds they usally start calling them slicing tomatoes(unless elongated, then plum). Grape tomatoes are smaller. Typically they are about 1/2 inch round, sometimes slightly elongated, but not really longer than .75 inch. They are your average sized grape. Cherry tomatoes are small and round like a cherry. Grape tomatoes are small and elongated like a grape. Grape tomatoes can be larger or smaller than cherry tomatoes. In fact, most grape tomatoes I've seen are larger than the typical cherry tomato. So the primary difference between grape and cherry is the shape. -- Warren H. ========== Disclaimer: My views reflect those of myself, and not my employer, my friends, nor (as she often tells me) my wife. Any resemblance to the views of anybody living or dead is coincidental. No animals were hurt in the writing of this response -- unless you count my dog who desperately wants to go outside now. Power Lawncare Tools for Spring Clean-up: http://www.holzemville.com/mall/blackanddecker/ |
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