No Stake Gourmet Tomatoes for growers

Fred Hempel · September 12, 2017

A farm I collaborate with wants to move from completely trellised tomatoes to all determinate "no-stake" growing.

I would like to get feedback from other growers on which indeterminate tomatoes combine good fruit characteristics (flavor, looks and good shelf-life) with good plant characteristics (Enough leaf area to shade fruits, good vigor and disease resistance).

Please suggest varieties that do not have any glaring weak points, when it comes to the traits listed above.

Please also indicate if you have grown the variety in a "field" situation. The goal is to have a thread that is useful to farmers, as opposed to a thread dominated by varieties with great flavor that are of limited use to farmers, because of mediocre shelf-life and/or production characteristics.

September 12, 2017	#1
Fred Hempel Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Sunol, CA Posts: 2,723	No Stake Gourmet Tomatoes for growers A farm I collaborate with wants to move from completely trellised tomatoes to all determinate "no-stake" growing. I would like to get feedback from other growers on which indeterminate tomatoes combine good fruit characteristics (flavor, looks and good shelf-life) with good plant characteristics (Enough leaf area to shade fruits, good vigor and disease resistance). Please suggest varieties that do not have any glaring weak points, when it comes to the traits listed above. Please also indicate if you have grown the variety in a "field" situation. The goal is to have a thread that is useful to farmers, as opposed to a thread dominated by varieties with great flavor that are of limited use to farmers, because of mediocre shelf-life and/or production characteristics.