Is there any way to tell what variety of tomatoes I have? My friend’s mom didn’t have room and gave them to me, but she didn’t remember what she got! I guess I will find out soon, but I wasn’t sure if you could tell by the leaves or something? Thanks! I’m so excited about how well they’ve been doing for my first patio garden! I also have “Purple Beauty” bell peppers i’m hyped about! So fun
Edited to add: Does it matter that all of the blossoms are in small groups? between 3-5 each cluster
by RoseyRosnee
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You sadly won’t know until the tomatoes grow! It’s looking great so far
Okay, I’ll take a crack at it.
It doesn’t look like a cherry, judging from its growth habit/truss of flowers.
It has regular leaves; not crinkled, like most dwarf have.
Leaf structure is quite a bit longer than it is tall. Reminds me of a Roma. I can’t definitively say it’s a determinate or indeterminate, but I am leaning more determinate. Give it lots of sun.
I have a feeling its a slicer or plum type variety. Likely tasty. Report back in two months.
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One of the leaves on the bottom looks like it has leaf miner damage, I’d pinch that one off and throw it away!
I can’t help you with the variety but I’d like to share something I recently learned. Tomatoes self pollinate! They have everything they need to produce fruit in their blossoms (both varieties of mine have clusters of blossoms you’re A-OK).
The wind should be enough to move the plants and distribute the pollen, but just in case if been doing the “tomato tickle” every day. I just shake the plants a little bit. I swear ever since I started doing that this season I am seeing more fruits!!
**plays jeopardy theme**
Only time will tell. Congratulations! Surprises are the gods’ gift to gardeners.
Looks very similar to my Roma tomato plants, but that is just a guess.
Last year I grew 10 vine tomato plants from grocery store vine tomato seeds. I just sliced them up and put them in the dirt and produced about 70 healthy seedlings. I gave most of the seedlings away and kept 10. They produced sooo much fruit. That definitely looks indeterminate to me.