Size of container? 2 det. work in a half whisky barrel or bigger for me - Earthtainers are great for them too. When they are done just put 2 more plants in it for a second crop or plant something else in it.

I never mix det with indet plants. The indet smothers and shades out the det.

Dave

Thank you!
I have 25-30 G large containers on first floor rooftop so there is no support just sprawling plants. Now that I said that am thinking it is possible to rig some kind of support cages with PVC though...
however if they are sprawling there should not be issues of shading out.

Growing indet. plants in a container? Unless it is a container variety I have found that yes you can do it but it definitely will have an impact on the yield to the negative. I used a 20 gallon container and one plant. I pruned my plants daily as well. Next season I'm considering using a large plastic trash can ( 30+ gallon) to see if I have better results. LOL.I'll probably have to use an eight foot ladder to prune and harvest them. Anyone have any results, planting indets in containers? Please let me know. Thanks

I have never container planted tomatoes but judging from how deep and wide they grow(I just pull few off them few days ago), I can tell that their roots will not grow much deeper than a foot. and will not spread in an area more than 3 sqr-ft. So planting in a bigger container(trash can ?) may not have the pay off. Actually it may have negative effect, by growing a more than needed roots and a lot of foliage. Keep in mind that tomato is an annual and lasts just one season.

Tomato plants can grow roots that are 5 - 6 feet in length. I just finished breaking down my garden and did a study on root size. My German Johnson(indeterminate heirloom) had roots that extended well beyond a foot (depth). It also exceeded 8 ft. in height Also, a few of my plants in 5 gallon buckets had roots growing thru the holes and when measured were 2 feet+ in length. I also want to add that all of my plants were in excellent organic soil with plenty of nutrients. The roots obviously IMO weren't searching for nutrients.