Thread: Starting to produce…

Originally Posted by BuckeyeCrappie

So what’s a determinate tomato?

2 types of tomato plants, the Indeterminate tomato keeps growing, 3 years ago by this time I had 12ft tall tomato plants (why I kept trying). Determinate tomato plants grow to a certain height, set fruit on main and sucker stalks, the stalks are so thick you don't usually have to stake them, but when they are done they die. You sucker Indeterminate tomatos, as they set fruit you also prune some of the leaves to grow Monster Big Beef Steak tomatoes.

We try to do organic best we can. Also with indeterminate they produce all season. Determinate they produce all then die. Went to Tomatopalooza one year with Craig LeHoullier and sampled probably 50+ varieties of tomatoes. Kept seeds for most I tried and grew most that next year. Sure was a lot of work but we narrowed down the varieties we liked the best. Cherokee Purple being #1 which was actually named by Craig LeHoullier. Craigs book Epic Tomatoes is an excellent book if you like tomatoes.

Learned something tonight! Thanks guys.

Vines on the power line are loaded this year. In two weeks or so I will be a pickin

the good news here is we dont grow no fungus or bacteria , its way to hot and dry for them to survive , just saying ....