Member discussion regarding the methods, varieties and merits of growing tomatoes.
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December 21, 2011 | #31 | |
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I see someone who selling your book for $999.99 |
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December 21, 2011 | #32 |
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I had compost bin and planning adding another one with worm farm but I am still thinking about. I hear worm casting much better than regular compost but touching the worm with bare hand its really struggle for me.... I hope my dad willing to do this dirty work . Or I just prepared many that's orange gardening glove...
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December 21, 2011 | #33 |
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Well there you go Carolyn, just $1 short.
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December 21, 2011 | #34 |
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December 21, 2011 | #35 |
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Ah yes, right you are!
Sign those things Carolyn, and who knows how much you can get Best buy up some more copies, and "enhance" your retirement.
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December 21, 2011 | #36 |
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I'm just catching up with the last few posts here now.
So Tam, you want me to autograph my four own last remaining new books and then also said you want me to go out and spend $1000 on others with the expectation that those will also increase in value? In your dreams, in your dreams.
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December 21, 2011 | #37 |
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I have to also give a nod to Slankards since it is not only a very large tomato, but a very tasy one as well. Stingy on production here in the South but well worth a spot in the garden.
Have you seen Golden Dome? It is another one that without any effort on my part made some really big tomatoes. http://doublehelixfarms.com/golden-dome Make sure you click the picture. There are 4 more pics on the page and one of them is a photo of a really big one. |
December 21, 2011 | #38 | |
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See, you said you'd consider selling your four when the price reached $1000. Well, at only a penny short, I bet if you autographed them you'd be golden! Also, as there are still some available at the base price, if you stocked up on some, then autographed them and got that 999.99 - see, you'd be all set . I'll be your agent Seriously, that is some price! I am of course just kidding around (mostly) but I think that book will be valuable. I'm still sending my personal copy to you for an autograph one of these days (hmm I am slow) - but that one certainly will not be sold.
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December 22, 2011 | #39 | |
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I've updated THE BIG TOMATO LIST at http://www.gianttomatoseeds.com/big_tomato_list.html with information about your winning specimen. Steve, I've also included info. you gave about Golden Dome. Let me know if the information is complete, accurate, properly linked and agreeable. Thanks, and I'll be glad to get rid of "DT" for every variety when tomato growers pass along their data and pics. A work in progress... P.S. - Bring it on! |
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September 20, 2016 | #40 |
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I don't know about which varieties can get the biggest, but I can tell you my experience, so far.
The varieties I've grown that got the largest fruits were these: * Cuostralee * Chapman * George Detsikas Italian Red Chapman seemed to get the most huge tomatoes on it, however, and I liked the flavor the most. All the varieties produced good, well-formed tomatoes without cracking, but Chapman looked particularly nice. I don't know how heavy they were, but I'm pretty sure one of the Chapman's was at least as wide as my head. Cuostralee's largest was probably my largest tomato, though, but I'm not sure which was the heaviest of all three varieties. I'm growing Omar's Lebanese somewhere in the southwestern part of my tomato area, but I haven't found it, yet. I've been looking for weeks (granted I was looking for unharvested varieties generally, and not just Omar's Lebanese; I've got about 29 varieties left to harvest, out of about a hundred). I hear Pineapple can get big, and I grew that, but it turns out my seeds were crossed or something, as the fruits were solid yellow all the way through (not bicolor). They were smaller than Celebrity F1 gets, but still decent sized (not huge by any means). Last edited by shule1; September 20, 2016 at 10:58 PM. |
September 21, 2016 | #41 | |
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I am growing a new tomato which grows huge. It is a very large brown tomato called Ruby Surprise. While not a large producer of tomatoes, they are at the 2 lb range and that is while allowing multiple fruit to develop. Besides that it tastes good too..
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September 21, 2016 | #42 |
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Of all the tomatoes I have grown that have given my really large fruit I would say that Omar's Lebanese and Gildo Pietroboni were the most frequent at giving up large fruit. Neither is a taste champ in my book. Others that produced very large fruit were Brandywine Sudduth's, Red Barn, Couilles de Taureau, Virginia Sweet, and Donskoi.
I am not familiar with your climate but assume it is hot and humid which means you probably won't get many really large fruit because the heat will cause them to ripen early. Couilles de Taureau and Red Barn are the more consistent producers of large fruit in the heat down here with the added benefit of being really tasty tomatoes with great texture. Like Carolyne I don't grow for size and so most of my really big tomatoes came from varieties that I like to ear or from ones I just tried for a year or two and didn't like the flavor. Good luck with your adventure in growing really big tomatoes. They are fun to show off but I really don't know what practical value they have. Bill |
September 21, 2016 | #43 |
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For me Delicious has produced very large fruits very consistently, this year I tried Yuvel, it produced very large fruits also.
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September 21, 2016 | #44 |
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My Belmonster (Belmonte) 3 pound + 3 oz was my largest to date. I don't usually grow for size and weight. I always grow for taste. AKmark got something in the 4 pound area from Belmonster. Terhune, Delicious, and a few others are steady producers of many larger fruits.
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September 22, 2016 | #45 |
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Have any of you tried Bill Bean? It looks enormous. Seed Treasures has it, Terhune and a few earlies that interest me; so, I'm thinking about trying Bill Bean for next year. I'm interested in giant tomatoes.
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