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| Help I accidentally mixed up my tomato plants. I'm growing Big Boy and Sweet 100 there only sprouts right now is there any way to tell them apart once they get there leaves. -TomAndJerryGardener |
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| No, both are regular leaf. Cherry varieties tend to grow a little faster than others but this is no guarantee of ID. That will only come with seeing the fruit. Dave |
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| Both plants have regular leaves. I was in the same pickle once with Sweet 100's and beefsteaks. My experience with Sweet 100's is that their leaves are not as long as the larger tomatoes. The middle leaf seems especially shorter. I don't know if that is just me seeing things, but I've noticed it several times over several seasons. Middle leaf on Sweet 100 seems shorter than the middle leaves of larger tomato cultivars. Maybe that's a cherry cultivar trait; I don't know. Also, the sweet 100 plants seem slightly shorter within the first month of seedling. But the latter assumes same germination date to make such a comparison. I've also noticed the Sweet 100s to be of a slightly lighter green colour than the beefs. Once again, these are just my own observations of my own plants over many seasons. I love sweet 100's. Good luck, |
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| Forgive my lack of describing properly the structure of tomato leaves in the previous post. What I meant by "middle leaf" is the end leaflet in a cluster of five or nine leaflets on a leaf. |
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