I need some help picking the smallest plants out of my list. I've never grown these varieties before (almost none of them, they're all new) so if you could help point out the 6-8 varieties or so that tend to produce SMALLER PLANTS, and are better for a slightly more compact space, or pot, I'd really appreciate it.

The seedlings I've started are:
Smoky Mountain
Opalka
Cherokee Green
Absinthe
Green Zebra
Green Pineapple
Moldovan Green
Malkhitovaya Shkatulka
Pruden's Purple
Cherokee Purple
Purple Calabash
Eva Purple Ball
Aunt Ginny's Purple
Ananas Noir
Striped German
Pineapple
Northern Lights
Hillbilly
Orange Russian 117
Berkeley Tie Dye Pink
Berkeley Tie Dye
Oaxacan Jewel
Black and Brown Boar
Great White
Isis Candy

Thank you so much for your advice!!!

Don't know Malkhitovaya Shkatulka or Oxacan Jewel or Smokey Mountain except that it is indeterminate. You might want to look each up on Tatiana's Tomato base for the details on each.

Sorry I can't be of more help.

Dave

Then there's the garden forum we can't link to. Their tomato Cultivar Finder (just search those three words in Google) puts varieties in height categories. (I figure if it says both 4-6' and 6-8', that's a 6' tall vine.)

The french one is very helpful, I'm sure, but even though I'm Canadian, I understand almost none of it, lol!! Again, I see a lot of weight, and fruit size (I think), but not too many plant sizes ...

Is the tomato cultivar finder by Dave? If so, many of the pages have heights listed, I guess 3 categories ... 4-6 ft, 6-8 ft and 8-10 ft. If the sizes are to be believed, that is actually a pretty big help!! Thank you :)

It seems like the smallest ones on my list would probably be:
Cherokee Purple
Pruden's Purple
Purple Calabash
Oaxacan Jewel
Black and Brown Boar
Cherokee Green
and possible some other greens like Absinthe, Moldovan Green and Green Pineapple.

Trying to fit large tomato plants into small garden spaces has it's frustrating moments, but I'd rather try to plan it out and make it work, rather than limiting the number of varieties I can try each summer :)

I really appreciate the suggestions, thank you!

I'm growing too many varieties this year, and needed to know which are what height so I can make the best use of a really mixed bag of old/new low/medium ring supports, 100' of 6' stock panel trellis, and however much Florida weave is necessary to handle the rest. So I was checking all the varieties at both those sites and recording the heights in a new category on my (embarrassingly-long) master list.

I was surprised how few I found on Ventmarin; in my memory, when I didn't care about height, they always listed it!

I had a couple of years of French in college, but the online dictionaries aren't much help with horticultural terms. My main problem at Ventmarin, though, is that when I see the word "cerise," I keep thinking pink rather than cherry....

So I chose one called Better Bush that only gets a max of 4' tall and produces copious amounts of 4" tomatoes that have a really good old time tomato flavor.

Just grow Bush Tomatoes and you are good to go.

I have one 4' tall planted about 7 weeks ago and has at least 60 tomatoes on it right now, have harvested 6 so far, 3 were small 2 1/2" and 3 decent size 3 1/2 to 4".
most all the rest look like they are going to be mostly 4".
the other one I planted 4 weeks ago and it is 3' tall with tons of blossoms and 9 small tomatoes already, that one will take over when the first one dies out in a few weeks.
When that one dies I will plant one more, probably about first of August to take over in October.