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Originally Posted by KarenO
Those must be stronger tomato stem attachments than I am used to. I can see it working fine with peppers but to my mind tomatoes separate too easily from their stems to make this work practical
KarenO
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Some of these De Colgar/Ramallet varieties have VERY strong truss stems where they originate on the main stem, and indeed, on the tomato itself. Much stronger than any multiflora I've encountered, in terms of the originating stem.
I'm growing a few plants (Ramallet Algaida and De Colgar 100, both for seed production) under less than ideal conditions (lows in the 40s, highs in the 80s sometimes) and they are doing well.
So perhaps challenging them towards the end of the season is a possibility.
The best tasting one I've tried thus far is De Colgar Papuo, a beautiful PL plant, prolific, putting out salmon colored 1.5-2.5 inch diameter, good fresh but much better after a month or two, especially spreading it on a slice of bread, just as Ilex recommended.
Dutch has a nice pic of a row of them on CRW