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Old December 12, 2011   #14
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Originally Posted by SEAMSFASTER View Post
Marvin Meisner grew two heirloom varieties to over six pounds in 2011.

Delicious (6.51 Meisner 2011)
Brutus Magnum (6.25 Meisner 2011)

Quite an amazing feat!

He is the author of the book Giant Tomatoes (Annedawn Publishing, 2007).
True, but the Delicious wasn't from seeds one normally buys and nor was the Brutus one.

Marv was here and posted in your thread and I'll link to that now so that folks can get a taste, as it were, of what those who grow for competition size do.

http://www.tomatoville.com/showthread.php?t=19937

Hope that helps.
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