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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: Biscombe on July 11, 2007, 22:43:27

Title: Biggest Tomato So Far!
Post by: Biscombe on July 11, 2007, 22:43:27
Big Rainbow! Biggest tomato I've grown so faf!!!! No signs of a rainbow yet!!!
(http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g220/Biscombe/BigRainbow117.07.jpg)
Sorry folks, can't you just tell I'.ve gone snap shot happy today!
Title: Re: Biggest Tomato So Far!
Post by: Raisedbed on July 11, 2007, 23:27:35
Crikey, looks like a huge cooking apple.    You'll only need one slice of that tomato to fill a whole sandwich.  I've got a Marmande going that way at the moment (keeping fingers crossed I don't get blight). 
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Post by: mc55 on July 12, 2007, 00:00:01
OMG, it's huge - could solve Africa's food problems
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Post by: saddad on July 12, 2007, 00:22:37
Yellow Oxheart is my biggest.. got a one Kilo fruit once! Annanas/Pineapple is also huge!
;D
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Post by: Doris_Pinks on July 12, 2007, 08:16:18
WOW! :o
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Post by: tim on July 12, 2007, 11:06:16
Bragging again!
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Post by: Jeannine on July 12, 2007, 11:16:22
OK, Biscombe, you have chucked down the gauntlet!!!

I am off to the greenhouse with a camera, us Brits have to at least have a try against your Spanish weather!!!

XX Jeannine
Title: Re: Biggest Tomato So Far!
Post by: newbies on July 12, 2007, 11:21:41
Looks like a challenge to me, you go girl, Jeannine! ;D ;D
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Post by: Jeannine on July 12, 2007, 15:16:07
Got to do a bit for the UK here Biscombe !!!!

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Post by: tim on July 12, 2007, 16:57:29
I quit!
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Post by: debster on July 12, 2007, 17:12:49
mine tomatoes are huge too but only if you are 6 inches high ha ha  ;D
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Post by: ruud on July 12, 2007, 18:11:19
no comment.
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Post by: emmy1978 on July 12, 2007, 18:46:20
Ok you two, out you go!

Fab toms both, v envious. Newbies - love your pic btw.

Title: Re: Biggest Tomato So Far!
Post by: Chris Graham on July 12, 2007, 22:17:45
Oh thats just not fair!!!

My biggest its the size of a marble!!
Title: Re: Biggest Tomato So Far!
Post by: Jeannine on July 12, 2007, 22:24:51
Chris, bear in mind these are all large growing toms anyway and because I grow some odd ones I have to start them very early with heat and lights, without that mine would be marbles too and I would never get some types to maturity here as they can take up to 120 days from main potting which is more than double that of say a Sungold or a Tumbler.

XX Jeannine
Title: Re: Biggest Tomato So Far!
Post by: Suzanne on July 12, 2007, 22:25:17
Are those babies hands ?
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Post by: Jeannine on July 12, 2007, 22:26:13
No they are mine, from a size 24 lady !!
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Post by: carolinej on July 13, 2007, 07:21:42
Jeannine,
are those ones Brandywine? I had my first one yesterday. It was huge, and I expected it to be watery. What a surprise, very sweet and packed with flavour! No sign of the yellow ones ripening yet though.

cj :)
Title: Re: Biggest Tomato So Far!
Post by: Jeannine on July 13, 2007, 07:32:09
No, that is a Tappys Heritage. There are some more shots in the Gallery with different ones and 1 of them is Brandywine.

You did very well to get one this soon,they are an excellent tom XX Jeannine

Title: Re: Biggest Tomato So Far!
Post by: carolinej on July 13, 2007, 07:35:37
I would post a pic, but it is all gone. I had named her bertha, and had been lovingly watching her every day for that perfect ripeness.

Oooh, it was worth the wait. Off to look in the gallery now.

cj :)
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Post by: carolinej on July 13, 2007, 07:40:24
Oooh, just looked at them all. What a juicy bunch :P

cj :)
Title: Re: Biggest Tomato So Far!
Post by: Chris Graham on July 13, 2007, 08:39:09
Quote from: Jeannine on July 12, 2007, 22:24:51
Chris, bear in mind these are all large growing toms anyway and because I grow some odd ones I have to start them very early with heat and lights, without that mine would be marbles too and I would never get some types to maturity here as they can take up to 120 days from main potting which is more than double that of say a Sungold or a Tumbler.

XX Jeannine

Thanks Jeannine for that, i was beginning to think I would never be able to grow tomatoes here in Scotland.

Need to ask my neighbours, theirs seem much better than mine. Wonder what their secret is ;)   
Title: Re: Biggest Tomato So Far!
Post by: Jeannine on July 13, 2007, 13:11:27
Chris go for the shorter season ones, if you want some help deciding varieties I can help you, also there are several that are a wee bit more cold tolerant. XX Jeannine
Title: Re: Biggest Tomato So Far!
Post by: Biscombe on July 13, 2007, 14:59:17
Ahhhhhhhhh 2 hands Jeannie!!!! But great for the UK!!!!
I'm here in the windy, cloudy, bright, cloudy, bright, stormy, bright UK at the mo for a music fest that starts tomorrow, the weather really doesn't know what to do!! I sympathise with you.......
Title: Re: Biggest Tomato So Far!
Post by: flowerlady on July 13, 2007, 15:46:56
 ::) ::) ::) ;D ;D ;D

I can tell ... "WE" are boasting again !!!!   :D :D :D
Title: Re: Biggest Tomato So Far!
Post by: cleo on July 13, 2007, 16:46:22
And remember with those big ones a truss is not just a set of fruit-they might need some support ;)