Hi , I would appreciate any help , I am trying to compile a list of minature tomato plant varieties,the size of the fruit in not important, it is the size of the plant that I am interested in.
Any personal experience would be very welcome to
I would really appreciate any info though
XX Jeannine
Grew 'Tiny Tim' last year it kept small ,small fruit sweet taste.Will grow again in the top of parsley pots.Is that enough info?
Can you remember high the plant was please XX Jeannine
About 10 inches, but they can be pinched out.
I presume what you are meaning Jeannine is 'bush' varieties rather than cordons.
We have grown a variety 'Red Cap' with success. They are compact plants, and produce plenty of smallish tomatoes. We got the seeds from Dobies.
valmarg
My Tiny Tim plants we about 60cm high! The smallest I have grown is Micro which reaches about 25-30cm. Very small cherry tomatoes with a good flavour. Here's a couple of pics. G x
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y30/georgie_girl15/Edibles/MicroToms.jpg)
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y30/georgie_girl15/Edibles/MicroTomato3.jpg)
Totem is 60-80 cms.
Janet.
Thank you for the help so far, I had some of them and have just planted
Micro Tom
Red Robin
Yellow Canary
Tiny Tim
Whippersnapper
Totem
Orange Pixie
Can you tell me how high Red Cap grows please, and if abyone knows of anymore tinies I would appreciate it.
I planted a couple and grew them through the winter but I forgot which ones
I can't think of a cordon type that would be tiny Valmarg, do you know of any please?
Georgie those little plants look super.
XX Jeannine
I think it was Biscombe who sent me the Micro seed in a swap, Jeannine. I saved some seed from the tomotoes last year and I've got three lovely little sturdy plants on my window sill again this year. They were sown about 6 weeks ago and they've already have trusses on them. ;D
G x
Green Sausage is naturally flat... doesn't get very tall at all...
:-\
I need ones that grow to less than 18 inches but thank you XX Jeannine
When I grew Green Sausage it didn't get over 12"... the down side was the tome lay on the ground and the slugs loved them almost as much as I did!
:-[
Are you including the tumbling varieties Jeannine? If so, there are two that I am growing this year: Tumbler and Tumbling Tom. Difficult to say what height they will grow to but I am expecting about 8 inches.
A small plant well worth growing is sub-artic plenty. It's the earliest variety to ripen. Two years ago, my outdoor sub-artics ripened before any of my greehouse plants.
Tiny Tim for sure. Sub Arctic Plenty reminds me of that scene in `Crocodile Dundee` about bush tucker"you can eat it ..........."
but is tastes like sh**
I think most of the earlies are like this Cleo, but they do help till the others come all..
Thank you DJ but it is a bit too tall for my purpose.
I have Patio too grows to 24 inches, a tough rigid heavy stemmed plant, loaded with fruit but sadly it is too tall.
XX Jeannine
Gartenperle is quite small. This pot had two plants in it and this was as big as it got
Wot no pic?
Crocodile Dundee... needs garlic!
;D
Oops - pic now added.
Quote from: Jeannine on March 30, 2008, 21:03:30
Can you tell me how high Red Cap grows please, and if anyone knows of anymore tinies I would appreciate it.
I can't think of a cordon type that would be tiny valmarg, do you know of any please?
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We've grown Red Cap in 10" pots, and they grow to about 18".
Sorry Jeannine, with regard to the bush/cordon type - what I was tying to say, albeit badly, was that it was the small plants (rather than fruits) you were interested in ;D ;D
valmarg
Valmarg, yes that is right, small plants, I will look into Red Cap, thank you.
Tumbler is a good tom for an early harvest but it is wide and so won't do for this project but thank you anyway.
XX Jeannine