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Originally Posted by b54red
I don't grow for size; but occasionally get a two pound tomato on some varieties. Last week I pulled a 33.8 oz tomato from a cluster of four fruits on one of my Omar's Lebanese plants. There is no telling how big that thing would have gotten had I been using some of the techniques to grow large fruit. It wasn't even from a fused blossom which made it more amazing to get that large in a cluster with other decent sized fruits.
Bill
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Bill, I know the variety very well as I think you already know. And yes I grew it a lot for SSE listings and seed offers and I too got huge fruits, especially if a summer was very wet and then I got fruits for many varieties larger than I'd gotten before.
So where is Omar Saab now, the person who gave me the seeds? He's still teaching, as he always has.I first met him when he was an adjunct at a place where I was also teaching at the same time. He moved to Norway,married a Norwegian lady, and is still teaching from there,online courses, but goes back to Lebanon frequently to visit family members, etc.
It's been great being back in touch with him since he's been able to describe the various hill towns above Beirut where his family had a summer home and where he got the seeds he gave to me when he got back to the US. And yes, we named it together.
I think the only other variety that I would consistently get huge fruit from is one called Couilles de Tareau, also Coustralee well maybe a few more as well. And again, I did nothing at all to TRY to grow large fruits.
My main reason for growing tomatoes, aside from what we grew on our farm for commercial purposes has always been Taste first,followed by yield, and there are, as always,plenty of variables that go into both of those as well.
Carolyn