Thanks bud
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If you get 320 pounds of tomatoes off of 3 plants, I will eat my own head.
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Before you make that bet:
Roma plant has over 100 tomatoes on it currently. If we track that end of the month ( July) will be first harvest and every month for 4 months. Thai is close to 400-450 tomatoes off 1 plant.
The Cherokee Purple tomato is 1-1.25 lbs each tomato. I have 2 plants of Cherokee Purple.
This is the baby… It will not begin to harvest until end of August……however, properly trained, the baby will out-produce it’s larger counterpart.
Now, as interesting as it would be to see the feat you are betting, I’d rather bet you 5 direct old school Gravity bong hits back to back ( gallon jug/Kitchen Sink) 
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Fingerlings are the best baked potato I know 
Nice work
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There’s some bug damage, so I’ll have to improvise and get creative. Some will get fried in chunks and the biggest ones will be mashed. They do roast up nicely, especially if you crisp em up in some bacon or duck fat in a pan afterwards.
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I loaned my kitchen sink to someone else. I’m afraid all I have to wager is the head eating.
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It’s a jungle over here. Haven’t lost another sunflower since the first 2 a while back and now some small secondary heads are popping up on most of the sunflowers which I didn’t expect them to have so that’s nice. There’s even some squash vines climbing up through the bamboo and sunflowers so that will be funny if any manage to flower up near the top.
There appears to be 2 distinct phenos from my tromboncino seed packet or some are hybrids of something else. One is very green and patterned and the other is very pale almost white and patternless. Pretty cool.
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Wow, I’ll be watching. I do fairly poorly with both of those here :). I love purp cherokees but if I get 3-4 tomatoes I’m happy.
checked out Guinness to see what’s possible and wow again…I must be doin it wrong, lol.
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/most-tomatoes-harvested-from-one-plant-in-one-year
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My green machine…a simple bench on the deck. It’s a LOT easier to keep my greens fresh, clean and bug free in the bench as opposed to in the garden. That bench is holding 24 mini Bok Choi’s, about 6-7 lettuces and some basil. Will provide 7-10 days repeat cuttings. Just did a 1000 gram run of kimchi from that bed and my chard/kale generators.
Raspberries are harvesting
and another
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Man. I’ve been getting 1 or 2 here and there. You need to teach me how to grow tomatoes!
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I broke down tomatoes in the same way we break down cannabis stages. Cannabis and tomatoes are VERY similar in timing of growth stages.
Cheap: Jobe’s, Espoma Seed Starter Plus
Step Up: BioLive 5-4-2
Germination
Seedling
Veg Stage
Espoma Tomato and herb
Roots Organics Bloom ( red bag)
Flowering/Bud Development
Fruiting
Roots Organic Bloom Booster
Ripening
Harvest
Recharge + Cal/Mag ( non nitrogen based) weekly
**All plants start in 6in plastic containers for 30 days using Bio365 and recharge only. Then in ground OR in larger container that has been amended 15 days prior to transplant.
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Thats almost a 2 year old tomato plant there…i wonder how they make that determination
Because, correct me if im wrong, technically you could keep an indeterminate tomato alive for…ever?
I wonder what the record is of a single season harvest of one plant
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An Heirloom Tomato tree takes about 1.5 years to reach its full size and starts growing fruit about 7 months after being planted. The normal harvest of an heirloom tomato tree is around 14,000 tomatoes.
I see that Epcot tomato plant bore fruit for 11 months. I’m in the northeast, I never really thought about how long tomato season is everywhere else.
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I’ve seen those absurd overhead tomato canopies. They look incredibly cool.
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I do believe Roma tomatoes are determinate. They will not bring successive harvests.
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I need that it my life.
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Have you ever grown Opalka tomatoes? They might fit right in your program there. Delicious tomato, check it out.
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Very good tomato
The issue is that it has weaker stalks. We get a few storms here that will crack a branch 3-4 inches thick no problem ( half my plant was on the other side of the yard ).
If I ever decide to get a greenhouse, absolutely!!! Probably the easiest tomato to process.
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