heaviest tomato ??

[tonybloke]

482 gms, or 1lb 1oz in old money.
Korol Gigantov.
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[tonybloke]

[Duke Ellington]

Boasting again !!! ::)

Seriously thats a whopper !! Well done !

Duke

[saddad]

A few years ago I grew "Oxheart" an orange/yellow tomato from HSL and one weighed over a Kg... sadly I stopped saving the seeds on one of the periodic culls...  :-[

[tonybloke]

I saved some of the seed, (before it became last nights bolognese!) I'll send you a few.

[Jayb]

Wow what a handsome monster!

[ceres]

You're tempting fate - you know who's gonna be along in a minute!  ;)

Nice tom.

[tim]

Nearly, Tony! Brandywine.

Would have grown on but the truss was breaking.

[saddad]

Looking good Tim...
Did you send them Tony? Did I get them... senility has set in (here) I think!  ::)

[GRACELAND]

 :D

I got 2 2lb Spuds so far this year  :o

[saddad]

You weren't wrong Ceres...  hit the ignore button...  :-X

[ceres]

Sadly yes.  Hopefully Dan will be along soon.

[tim]

Just let it die.

[tonybloke]

Looking good Tim...
Did you send them Tony? Did I get them... senility has set in (here) I think!  ::)

did you want some seed david? if so, let me know and I'll send you some!!

[debster]

those tomatoes look lovely, what is the taste like? does it lose any flavour in the size?

[tonybloke]

the large tom's I grow, I grow because they taste as good as the small ones!!  ;)

[northener]

DONT CLICK ON THE ABOVE LINK, NOT VERY NICE

[tim]

debster - it's not the size - it's the variety. And the way they are brought up.

See http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/smf/index.php/topic,49640.160.html - should be under Recipes.

Supposedly one of the best.

[debster]

ok so they are alarge variety rather then a large tomato from an ordinary variety must give them a go next year

[Hector]

Tom, do they take an age to ripen and do you have to tie up trusses?

[tonybloke]

the trusses of most of the very large tomatoes have only 3 - 6 fruit per truss, and yes, they do need tying to your support or they'll tear the truss off of the stem with their weight
(sometimes)