Here's why I grow Super Sweet 100

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Here's why I grow Super Sweet 100

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Sun Jun 20, 2021 8:06 pm

SS 100 Jun 19 - 1.jpg
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Mon Jun 21, 2021 6:06 pm

They're a good tomato to grow
Very productive.
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Tue Jun 22, 2021 2:36 am

Cool--how does it compare with Sweet Million F1? I haven't grown either, yet.
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Tue Jun 22, 2021 12:21 pm

I always grew Sweet Million and thought they tasted better and that they split less. I heard that they weren't really an F1 which is interesting because, years ago, before I knew any better, I used to let them self-seed, then grow them in rows, and I never noticed any difference......

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Tue Jun 22, 2021 3:26 pm

Shule wrote: Tue Jun 22, 2021 2:36 am Cool--how does it compare with Sweet Million F1? I haven't grown either, yet.
Haven't grown Sweet Million myself. I'm more than satisfied with SS100.
I have grown Sweet 100, but the SS100 has more flavor IMHO.
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Wed Jun 23, 2021 2:43 am

I did some research. It looks like Sweet Million has a smaller plant, bigger fruit, arguable taste, and it has heat-tolerance. Most people seem to prefer Super Sweet 100.

It sounds like you'd get more fruit from Super Sweet 100, considering the large difference in plant size (considering how prolific it is per foot).

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Thu Jun 24, 2021 3:09 pm

Awesome trellis of fruit. We used to grow Sweet 100 every year but for some reason haven't in the last couple of years. Think I might try them again next year after seeing these pics.

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Fri Jun 25, 2021 9:03 am

I'm not sure I'd grow them. They don't seem to have many leaves..
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Fri Mar 18, 2022 2:50 pm

I just planted Super Sweet 100 F1, but I forgot if that's the one that QAGUY liked; so, I came back to check. Awesome, it was.

I have another question. How do all these compare with Peacevine Cherry? It's supposed to be a dehybridized Sweet 100.
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Fri Mar 18, 2022 8:50 pm

Hmm...I have one spot left I'm trying to decide on, maybe I should try Super Sweet 100 again, the only time I grew it was in a hanging basket and it didn't do very well.

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Fri Mar 18, 2022 10:53 pm

SS100 stays very small for me, almost currant size, and not that sweet until end of August it seems. I don't get those Reisentraube style trusses from it either. Seed is burpee, I have dozens of packs, spring cleaning/dumpster dives from a store. I grew it again last year, once again it was a dog. For me, the tomatoes come out dime, penny, sometimes nickel size. I was wondering last year, where QAGUY is growing at. Certainly that is being grown more successfully. Mine are cage grown, started late.

I have yet to grow sweet million. Grew sweet 100 a few times, only cherry we ever grew honestly, it was good, some sprawls were great, but SS100 in a cage the way I grow now, not so good. Sunsugar, sungold, I have never grown anything that comes close for production and sweetness in a cherry. I grow them the same way, small starts that go in around mid May. But those two, and most other cherries, produce much larger fruits.

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Sat Mar 19, 2022 12:22 am

@JRinPA
My seed is from Burpee, too (from 2013). I hope the fruits are a decent size, because I'm trying to avoid growing any small cherries, this year (but at least it should have genetics for a bigger cherry, if not).

I've had cherries that are a lot smaller than advertised in my garden, and others that are reliably a certian size. I've also had cherries that are bigger in some locations of the garden than others (like, Isis Candy was pretty big in 2020, but about 1/3 or 2/3 the size in 2021, despite having plenty of potassium); Black Cherry was almost golfball sized in 2020, but was maybe 0.75" in 2021.

Purple Bumble Bee was like 0.6 inches in my garden in 2016 (definitely a cherry--not a small tomato as advertized).

Austin's Black Cherry was super tiny.
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Sat Mar 19, 2022 6:48 am

JRinPA wrote: Fri Mar 18, 2022 10:53 pm SS100 stays very small for me, almost currant size, and not that sweet until end of August it seems. I don't get those Reisentraube style trusses from it either. Seed is burpee, I have dozens of packs, spring cleaning/dumpster dives from a store. I grew it again last year, once again it was a dog. For me, the tomatoes come out dime, penny, sometimes nickel size. I was wondering last year, where QAGUY is growing at. Certainly that is being grown more successfully. Mine are cage grown, started late.
Shule wrote: Sat Mar 19, 2022 12:22 amMy seed is from Burpee, too (from 2013). I've had cherries that are a lot smaller than advertised in my garden, and others that are reliably a certian size. I've also had cherries that are bigger in some locations of the garden than others (like, Isis Candy was pretty big in 2020, but about 1/3 or 2/3 the size in 2021, despite having plenty of potassium)
Let's see, to hit the points above, mine was from Burpee seed, it was a dog, however I grew it in a couple hanging baskets that had questionable sun and water, with the deer occasionally nibbling what was hanging down. I just thought it was an overhyped tomato, and decided not to grow it again. I have been underwhelmed by some things from Burpee, but it may be my novice growing. QA guy is in LA--says so in his signature. When I grew Isis Candy, I remember them being golf-ball size, but I didn't like the taste and they split easily.

So, I'm still on the fence as to whether to try this again, and I have about 2 days to decide. And BTW since we are bashing Burpee, I do grow Burpee Honeycomb Hybrid, it's very good, I now replace a couple of my Sungold with them, I would say they are as good but a little different than Sungold, maybe crack a little less, and very prolific:
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Sat Mar 19, 2022 1:22 pm

When I grew the sweet 100 and million in the past,they never looked like that.
So I never grew them again.
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Sat Mar 19, 2022 2:46 pm

@Setec Astronomy
I didn't mean to bash Burpee. A lot of great varieties originate from them. I meant to share my source so after it grows out we can compare and see if it's the same (and I'm curious if QAGUY's was from Burpee, too). Even good seed stores sometimes sell a variety that isn't how it's supposed to be, for whatever reason. Granted an F1 hybrid should be the same at all sellers unless whoever crossed the hybrid crossed it the other way around or something, or starting using different parent stock (the latter of which is possible for super popular hybrids; they seem to do that with Early Girl F1 a lot, anyhow, but they usually have documentation somewhere where you can learn about it for that one). Or, maybe the seed suffered from some chemical treatment that resulted in smaller fruit. I don't know.

It's likely that the growing conditions were just not ideal for the variety.
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Sat Mar 19, 2022 9:25 pm

Shule wrote: Sat Mar 19, 2022 2:46 pm @Setec Astronomy
I didn't mean to bash Burpee. A lot of great varieties originate from them. I meant to share my source so after it grows out we can compare and see if it's the same (and I'm curious if QAGUY's was from Burpee, too).
Heck, I was the one that was bashing Burpee, maybe unfairly. I do really like that Honeycomb Hybrid, and I'll keep growing it alongside my Sungold, unless Sunorange really blows my socks off this year. So, I'm leaning toward trying the Super Sweet 100 again...I should be planting seeds in a few days, so we'll see if I change my mind.

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Thu Mar 24, 2022 6:57 pm

I don't start from seed. I tried a few times, but limited space made it kind of tough. Never had good luck with seeds. Those who grow their own have my respect and admiration.

The plant actually came from Bonnie Plants. I presume that Bonnie does their own seed saving, but I'm not sure.

This years plant will come from Cal Poly Pomona School of agriculture.
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Thu Mar 24, 2022 9:16 pm

Wherever you got them from, they were beautiful plants, you are doing it right. I never see cascades of fruit like that from SS100. I have only seen Reisentraub do that, and many never really set well, and those that colored up nicely looked better than they tasted.

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