Your Favorite 3-4 gallon wonders for 2020

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Your Favorite 3-4 gallon wonders for 2020

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Post: # 16924Unread post Blackbear
Sat Apr 11, 2020 1:06 pm

These are interesting compact ones .....
they are usually larger than mini dwarfs ...yet can be productively grown in 3-4 gallon containers .
(not 5 gallons ..sub 5 gallons). (but larger than mini-dwarfs )

So .
My favourites in this category grown for this year .

1) Yaponskiy Karlik

2) Buddai Torpe

3) Fuzzy Wuzzy

of course there are many others to mention ... :)
So many Tomatoes...……..so little Time !

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Sat Apr 11, 2020 1:21 pm

Maglia Rosa (always good)

Taste Patio (new-to-me this year, although I've grown the "regular" version twice before)

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Sat Apr 11, 2020 1:35 pm

Maglia Rosa, Bajaja.

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Sun Apr 12, 2020 11:24 am

ok I will add a few more for 2020 in this category... very flexible plants

Gold Nugget
Cyril's choice
yellow pygmy
Silvery fir ..
Mano
Rosa Vetrov
Sophies Choice..
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Sun Apr 12, 2020 11:32 pm

Growing Sophie's Choice for the first time this year, in-ground.

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Mon Apr 13, 2020 12:55 pm

Red Alert and Maskotka and Patio Orange

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Mon Apr 13, 2020 3:00 pm

I still don't have a favorite container tomato, unless maybe Sub Arctic Plenty (which I haven't tried in that container size, but I suspect it could do well). Husky Cherry Red should do quite well in a 4-gallon container.

However, I know a couple tomatillo varieties that thrive in containers. I had two plants in each of the two containers (which were 4 or 5 gallon; so, I imagine one plant per 3 or 4 gallons should do well, too). One is an unknown kind with slightly purple skin (the parents was just green); it can get large fruit. The other is called Yellow (from Trade Winds Fruit), although I may or may not have gotten a fluke plant that did better than most Yellow there.
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Tue Apr 14, 2020 11:11 pm

Shule wrote: Mon Apr 13, 2020 3:00 pm I still don't have a favorite container tomato, unless maybe Sub Arctic Plenty (which I haven't tried in that container size, but I suspect it could do well). Husky Cherry Red should do quite well in a 4-gallon container.

However, I know a couple tomatillo varieties that thrive in containers. I had two plants in each of the two containers (which were 4 or 5 gallon; so, I imagine one plant per 3 or 4 gallons should do well, too). One is an unknown kind with slightly purple skin (the parents was just green); it can get large fruit. The other is called Yellow (from Trade Winds Fruit), although I may or may not have gotten a fluke plant that did better than most Yellow there.
Sub arctic plenty did ok in tall 3gallons and so did husky cherry red ...many moon ago. :)

I also grew Siberia in 3 gallon (rugose leaf dwarf ..about 18-20 inches etc.) :)
So many Tomatoes...……..so little Time !

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Post: # 17550Unread post Blackbear
Fri Apr 17, 2020 7:49 am

Betalux did ok and early in this endeavor as well .
So many Tomatoes...……..so little Time !

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