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Questions about Amish Paste, Cherokee, and Brandywine
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Posted by
mudman93 3 (
My Page) on
Fri, Jun 11, 10 at 18:16
Ok. Three seperate questions.
1) Are Amish Paste plants alway droopy? Mine look healthy but are noticable limp in contrast to all my other tomatoes.
2) I am staking ind. tomatoes which I have done before but never with some of the varieties I have this year (Brandywine and Cherokee Purple in peticular). Usually the vine will run up and shoot out a group of buds and continue to grow upward, but with these tomatoes I am getting a few of these groups of buds which turn back into a leading vine right from the group of buds. Is this normal?
3) All of my tomatoes have flowered accept Mr. Stripy, which from the info I have should be my first mature tomato. Is it just that fast to ripen when it gets fruit? |
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RE: Questions about Amish Paste, Cherokee, and Brandywine
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My Amish Paste last year was a little droopy looking. I even posted
a question asking about it. It turned out great and produced many
tomatoes. |
RE: Questions about Amish Paste, Cherokee, and Brandywine
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- Posted by twc015 7b/8a SE Arkansas (My Page) on
Fri, Jun 11, 10 at 20:17
| All of my Amish Paste plants look droopy as well. They are producing fine though. The last time I looked closely at my Brandywines, I did not notice this on my plants. However, I have never looked to see if they do the same as yours. |
RE: Questions about Amish Paste, Cherokee, and Brandywine
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| Are growing the big bi-color Mr. Stripey (not the smaller Tigerella one)? Bi-colors can be finicky and non-productive. |
RE: Questions about Amish Paste, Cherokee, and Brandywine
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| Yes, Amish Paste is usually droopy, but I've never considered it to be a paste variety b'c for me and some others it's way too juicy. There's another variety called Lillian's Red Kansas Paste and it's not a paste one either. Mr. Stripey, the large bicolor, has not worked out well for many folks . They complain of lack of vigor and low to no fruit set. Naturally there are others who like it. IMO I could list lots of gold/red bicolors I'd grow before I'd grow Mr Stripey. ( smile) YOu see it all over the place for a very good reason. When Wayne Hilton owned Totally Tomatoes he was a client of Seeds by Design in CA, which is a wholesale place and they also produce seed by subcontract. Wayne found this bicolor and gave it to them and they didn't know that there already was a variety called Tigerella, aka Mr. Stripey, so they named this one MR. Stripey, this confusing legions of tomato growers. SBD sends out a list of their varieties each year to many commercial places and Mr Stripey is on that list and that's why you see it at most of the big box stores, etc. Carolyn |
RE: Questions about Amish Paste, Cherokee, and Brandywine
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| I am growing the small Tigerella variety. They seem very healthy, but just seem to be a bit behind my other plants. |
RE: Questions about Amish Paste, Cherokee, and Brandywine
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| I have three Brandywine this year and one is looking wilted without other bad signs like Early Blight. I'm still hoping they will come thru OK. I had to pull two of my 27 toms so far, which is about average. I have around eight types of toms this year. I like to have about three types of cherry toms, about one third the total number of plants. In October, the cherries taste good, and the bigger fruit plants do not taste much better than the stuff in the store. |
RE: Questions about Amish Paste, Cherokee, and Brandywine
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| Thanks for the information from everyone, glad to know my Amish Paste are normal. |
RE: Questions about Amish Paste, Cherokee, and Brandywine
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- Posted by
Julie Henry Oklahoma
(grumred@cox.net) on Sun, Jun 19, 11 at 19:23
| I have quite a few Amish Paste and not only are they looking droopy, they still have not produced any tomatoes at all. We have good soil and the plants are irrigated under the soil with black plastic around the plants to deter the weeds, but the blossoms seem to be drying up. Is this a heat related problem? Any suggestions? |
RE: Questions about Amish Paste, Cherokee, and Brandywine
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| About the funny flower trusses. Sometimes early in the season those will have a truss that develops a leaf on the end and the flowers may be spread along it. I've never had them turn into a healthy full sized vine though, and I usually pinch it off early on behind the front flower. |
RE: Questions about Amish Paste, Cherokee, and Brandywine
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| Yes Brandywine does that, for me anyways. I used to just let them grow into a forest. But this year I'm going to pinch these and try to make them tidy, if possible. |
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