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KCJNUGS
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thank you Abiqua
Diabolical666
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Nice fruits
KCJNUGS
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thank you. the tomatoes are beefsteak tomatoes- biggest Ive seen since I started growing veggies when I was in high school. This year we used organics and calmax and veg and bloom instead of miraclegro like I have all years previously. Due to my boyfriend and all his research on different types of plant foods, I have been very impressed with the outcome and pleased to use the new garden food as oppose to miraclegro because miraclegro is probably an unhealthy fertilizer to use.
Diabolical666
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Im getting some brown spots on my beefs...they were pounded with qtr size hail a few days back, but Im not to sure thats it...some yellowing as well. I dont have em in cages but propped up fruits off the ground. Giving them grow big every now and again. Any suggestions?
dannyboy602
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how do u figure? What's unhealthy about it? Its just powder blue nitro form.
KCJNUGS
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I found a website called tomatodirt and and has a lot of info regrading tomato growing issues. I didn't have time to read up but look into the website; it seems pretty informative
Abiqua
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Last 2 years, I have had beefsteaks in the rotation, but this year I went to the "Mortgage Lifter". Which is a 4 way cross with Beefsteak, German Johnson and two other varieties.
The mortgage lifter heirloom's could double the size of my beefsteaks....
KCJNUGS
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thank you
Abiqua
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Yep, it is a Heirloom variety. Some dude in WV came up with them years ago, trying to breed a big ass tomato. He was successful I guess and payed off his mortgage quickly within a couple of years due to the success of the tomatoes.
I have seen seeds on Etsy.....these things are freaking huge, this is a small one....
Deusracing
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Too bad he's an asshole
Dave's Not Here
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I've been growing the mortgage lifters for years and they usually rock and roll!
Here's a big ugly fused one from last year next to my gf's wine cooler.I've noticed I can prune it down to a couple vines and get some big tomatoes or I can let it vine out and they produce a ton of nice smaller tomatoes. A couple years ago I just let one spread out on the ground and it grew like 6 huge vines in all directions with nice sized tomatoes on it growing in bunches like grapes. I lost a few because it was on the ground but I picked a ton of tomatoes off that one plant.
Anyways, I was thinking about NOT growing the Mortgage Lifters this year and trying a couple other heirloom varieties that are supposed to get huge like Belgium Giant and Brandywine but you have me reconsidering!
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Abiqua
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Right on, I gotta get over here more to the Garden forum....since LED's have peaked my curiosity, I haven't been by as much....I've been growing the mortgage lifters for years and they usually rock and roll!
I've noticed I can prune it down to a couple vines and get some big tomatoes or I can let it vine out and they produce a ton of nice smaller tomatoes. A couple years ago I just let one spread out on the ground and it grew like 6 huge vines in all directions with nice sized tomatoes on it growing in bunches like grapes. I lost a few because it was on the ground but I picked a ton of tomatoes off that one plant.
Anyways, I was thinking about NOT growing the Mortgage Lifters this year and trying a couple other heirloom varieties that are supposed to get huge like Belgium Giant and Brandywine but you have me reconsidering!
This was my 1st year of the Lifter's, I could have done better....but they just became so mushy at one point, still on the vine...so with my current constraints, I probably will wait for another year, but seed is always saved!
They were giants though! and I have to look into the Belgium Giant's!
I also grow a variety called Mr. Stripey, which are more like the size of Princeton's....they are very hardy and develop really nice medium sized fruit.....the stripey also clones in my bubble cloner almost every time under a week, I like it
Still on the lookout for YELLOW PEAR TOMATOES, cannot find seed to save my life!
Dave's Not Here
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I had my tomatoes in early last year and got a great harvest but towards the end of summer and beginning of fall it started raining all the time and the temps really dropped and most of mine were rotting on the vine. It was so bad I didn't even want to go out and look at them.Right on, I gotta get over here more to the Garden forum....since LED's have peaked my curiosity, I haven't been by as much....
This was my 1st year of the Lifter's, I could have done better....but they just became so mushy at one point, still on the vine...so with my current constraints, I probably will wait for another year, but seed is always saved!
They were giants though! and I have to look into the Belgium Giant's!
I also grow a variety called Mr. Stripey, which are more like the size of Princeton's....they are very hardy and develop really nice medium sized fruit.....the stripey also clones in my bubble cloner almost every time under a week, I like it
Still on the lookout for YELLOW PEAR TOMATOES, cannot find seed to save my life!
I like the Mortgage Lifters as an overall big producer and using it for whatever, but there are some tastier tomatoes. My favorite tasting tomato is the Cherokee Purple but it's usually more finnicky for me and doesn't produce as much, best tasting tomato I've found.
I ordered from this place a few weeks ago for the first time, ordered on a Friday night, had my seeds Monday morning. They'll send you a free seed catalog too if you request one. I knew I saw the Yellow Pear tomatoes there.
http://www.rareseeds.com/yellow-pear/
They have some striped ones too but probably not the one you're searching for.
http://www.rareseeds.com/store/vegetables/tomatoes/striped/
Dave's Not Here
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If you guys are looking for a heavy producing cherry tomato plant, this one is the craziest I've seen... Burpee Super Sweet 100 hybrid, should be able to find seeds at any big box store... I had like 5 plants of these staked up last year and I was up to my ears in cherry tomatoes, picking them started to become a job. I didn't really prune them I just kept tying the vines up all together into a big mass up a stake and then they got so tall they overgrew the stake, fell over and started growing back down.
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Wavels
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I totally agree... I love these Burpee cherries... I have been growin them for years, very yummy and prolific.