Biggest Tomato

Probably won't be me but I'll try, got all my seedlings on the go..... Do I have to pick out some of the friut as they develop?

 

I've not heard of doing that to tomatoes, but it's a technique used with some flowers like carnations and chrysanthemums to make all the energy go into one flower to make it bigger.
Perhaps you're thinking of removing the sideshoots which is usually done to tomatoes (although not bush varieties which are left to grow naturally) in order to concentrate the energy into a few trusses on the plant.

 

When growing tomatos it is normal to remove any extra sets of fruit (normaly two or three sets per branch/truss)to get better fruits. Also to pinch out the growing tip of the plant to stop it getting too big. If allowed to grow unchecked the plant will produce loads of small toms as well as side shoots that will also produce fruit. If you want large fruits, no more than 2 sets per branch/truss and stop the plant at about 5 foot high. Make sure the tap roots have continual access to water, feed (once it sets fruit)regularly. If there's a break in the taking up of fluid, the fruits will suffer. Hope this helps.

 

Hi Vince,

If you want to grow giant vegetables, you will need to have the correct seed to start with!
Like with onions, it is Kelsae or Robinson's Mammoth varieties.
I do not know the names for Giant tomatoes, though I hope you are not growing Cherry varieties, they will not do!

Cheers

 

I am growing cherry tomatoes but only for salads NOT size lol.

I'm trying "marglobe" beefsteak tomatoes, I've less than poor results with beefsteak toms before although I tend to do well with other varieties..... what am I doing wrong?

 

Vince, I would try it. Obviously they have to be Beefsteak toms, but I would restrict the plants to just 2 or 3 fruit. If you don`t try you will never know.

 

Cheers Dai, need the push to be brutal, will grow 2/3 per truss

 

No, 2 to 3 PER PLANT.

 

Hello Vince,

I stopped growing ordinary tomatoes years ago, when I discovered how easily beef tomatoes grew,and they are ready at the same time as well.
I have grown "Dombito" from T&M for years,then this year it is no longer available, and I am on my last pasket(8 seeds per packet).
I also put in a couple of "Legend" also from T&M just in case, but "Dombito" never failed me.
This year for the first, I am trying Italian beefs,
Costoluto Genovese and
Costoluto Fiorentino
to see how they taste.
I know that there is lots of fruit on Cherry plants, but to me they don't compare in taste to beefs, personal choice!

I never restrict how many fruit per truss, early on in the season,there is usually only 2 or 3 per truss anyway, but as the season progresses all fruit sets. Then sometime I restrict them as the trusses are liable to break with the weight.

Cheers

Ps
If you know what "TEXAN" jokes are?
Well! Beef tomatoes are only TEXAN cherry tomatoes. Oi!!!!!!

 

I've raised 3 beefsteak seedlings, will try letting one get on with itself, one with restricted trusses and one with only 2/3 fruit on the plant.

Not keen on the last option cos my appetite for "beefsteak" tomatoes exceeds the possible return of only 2 fruit per plant?

 

Vince, may I point out the name of this thread, which you started, is "Biggest Tomato"? :D

 

Yup david but BIG and tasty?

I'll sow another seed and go for the record, better get my 2nd greenhouse up and running pretty smartish?