Interested in Growing a Multiflora Dwarf?

[Al@NC]

tryno12, hanging basket type plants don't grow up like normal tomato plants but rather grow down like Tumbling Tom in this link:

https://bonnieplants.com/product/tum...om-red-tomato/



Al

[tryno12]

Thanks AL, so cascading means tumbling like a tumbling tom grows downward, correct?

[Al@NC]

I believe so tryno12, from that link it states:

• Plant type: Compact determinate (cascading)

Trade flowering hanging baskets for pretty-as-a-picture trailing tomatoes. Tumbling Tom Red plants cascade from hanging baskets, tall containers, or window boxes, and when they’re loaded with sparkling red fruit, the effect is striking.

[Hatgirl]

Does anyone know anything about the genes behind tumbling,/cascading/trailing tomatoes? I've done some googling but haven't found anything :/

[Cole_Robbie]

I believe that cascading foliage is a gene, but that is about all I know. My experience comes from growing Tumbling Tom for a few years. I have seed that is saved from the F1 hybrid, but it is easy to pick out the tumbling plants when the seedlings are a few weeks old. The node length is virtually zero, and the plant sends out growth tips all over the stem.

[tryno12]

Thanks Cole, what is "node length"?

Can anyone tell if this plant is a micro floral, how big it might get, fruit taste etc? It is from Dan, 3 months old #73X - f2 Fuzzy wuzzy

[Cole_Robbie]

My fault, the correct term would be internode length:

[tryno12]

Thanks Cole!

[Al@NC]

Love the pic! Axillary bud is a.k.a. Sucker! I've never heard of the official name before...

Al

[Al@NC]

Originally Posted by tryno12

Can anyone tell if this plant is a micro floral, how big it might get, fruit taste etc? It is from Dan, 3 months old #73X - f2 Fuzzy wuzzy

tryno12, where you meaning to ask if it is multi-flora? If so, it doesn't look like it is in this photo. The size it will become remains to be seen, that's why were growing out the micro's - we're hunting micro's and smaller size plants and tomatoes with great taste.

All of the question's you ask are traits that have yet to be shown in your plants and are the reason's why your growing them, your hunting!

And all of these traits will vary by some degree from seed to seed/plant to plant that you grow out.

Al

[tryno12]

Thanks AL, i do not trim any suckers from dwarf or micro dwarf plants - i thought that was the rule??
Also which is the Axillary bud you refered to?
Pete

[Cole_Robbie]

Where I come from, phytomer also means to argue. As in:

I'm glad we could agree and not phytomer it.

[tryno12]

Me too!

[dfollett]

Originally Posted by Cole_Robbie

I believe that cascading foliage is a gene, but that is about all I know. My experience comes from growing Tumbling Tom for a few years. I have seed that is saved from the F1 hybrid, but it is easy to pick out the tumbling plants when the seedlings are a few weeks old. The node length is virtually zero, and the plant sends out growth tips all over the stem.

Thanks, Cole. That gives me something else to look for. I have one growing now I will watch very closely. When I potted it up to its big boy container it was only about 3" tall, but had lots of branches and almost no internode distance - like all the branches were coming out of a central hub. Not much was growing up and nearly everything was growing out.....

I have never grown the tumbling type and had never given it any thought. Are the branches less rigid so they cascade down? Many of the branches on these micros are fairly stocky and somewhat brittle and easily broken.

Let me know what else I should look for..

[Cole_Robbie]

Originally Posted by dfollett

lots of branches and almost no internode distance - like all the branches were coming out of a central hub. Not much was growing up and nearly everything was growing out.....

I have never grown the tumbling type and had never given it any thought. Are the branches less rigid so they cascade down?

I think you described it well.