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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: Paulines7 on June 21, 2009, 11:03:50

Title: Fandango tomatoes
Post by: Paulines7 on June 21, 2009, 11:03:50
I bought some Fandango tomato plants whilst in France but don't know whether they are determinate or indeterminate so don't know whether to pick out the side shoots.  I tried Googling them but couldn't come up with an answer. 

Has anyone else grown them please and will they be all right outside? 

I was going to buy some tomato plants just before we went away but they were £1.50 each in B&Q!!  Glad I didn't now as the French ones were 2.50 euros for eight.  I also bought some Marmande but have grown them before but it is the Fandango's that are new to me.
Title: Re: Fandango tomatoes
Post by: saddad on June 21, 2009, 11:06:28
I hope you find out about them...  :)
Title: Re: Fandango tomatoes
Post by: annppayne on June 21, 2009, 12:03:23
Well you could divide the total into two, treat one group as a cordon and the other as a bush and see which method gives you the most and best tomatoes.

If they are a good tomato in terms of taste and quantity you could save some seed and grow them again next year.

Title: Re: Fandango tomatoes
Post by: Baccy Man on June 21, 2009, 12:13:38
Indeterminate beefsteak, plant height varies drastically from 1.2m - 2.5m, very sweet taste, fruit size typically 240g - 350g but fruits as big as 697g have been recorded, late season 80 - 85 days, fruit has a tendency to crack/split, F1 hybrid originating from Spain developed in 1993, widely grown commercially.

Tomatoes look like this:
(http://tomaten-atlas.de/bilder/89/b0cfb9c152a74db4663b442752ac8163.jpg)

Anything else you need to know about them?
Title: Re: Fandango tomatoes
Post by: saddad on June 21, 2009, 12:26:09
Baccyman to the rescue... as usual...  ;D
Title: Re: Fandango tomatoes
Post by: Baccy Man on June 21, 2009, 12:28:57
Well it's not often I get to answer anything in 'edible plants' there are normally loads of good answers given before I see the posts.
Title: Re: Fandango tomatoes
Post by: Paulines7 on June 21, 2009, 13:53:53
Thanks a million Baccy man.  Hopefully I will get a good crop from them.