How to grow a dwarf variety of tomatoes, how to grow tomatoes, how to grow good tomatoes. I find dwarf tomatoes, not as prolific as a plain old cherry tomato. 
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Did you add any bagged soil? Some people are blaming that on the failures.
Thank you for the update on the rosey finch tomato! It was interesting to see how it did, and I don't think I will be growing one of them 😊. The first few tomato plants that I planted are about done, and I think it is due to several weeks of upper 90 temps, but I'm not sure. I kept them watered and fed. But thankfully the tomatoes that I planted a month later still look great and are producing several tomatoes.
Keep those videos coming because several of us look forward to seeing them 😂! 😊❤❤😊.
Well I was not impressed with the amount of seeds and price considering it is from Canada out to lunch 6 seeds for 3.00 plus shipping came to 7.50 then had some strange type plant come up instead of tomato so not thrilled at all!
It was a learning experience. I Really like your enclosure. Thanks for the update, been wondering.
No i dont think I will grow those smallet plants. I grow Roma tomatoes and I plant some in May, June and July. They give me plenty along with my sun gold.😊
I have so many volunteers tomatoes they are all full of tomatoes 🤷🏼♀️my cherry tomatoes are grow so high a foot taller them ( I am 5.3 ) and with all the pruning it’s branches are falling down ! But I never has so much tomatoes! No complaints just talking 😂
That’s too bad the Rosy tomatoes 🍅 didn’t grow that big and don’t taste that good.
I just read online that they only get 24” tall.
Hopefully 🙏 as your weather cools down they will grow better.
I love the small Sugar Bomb tomatoes that i bought at Sprouts last summer.
I saved seeds and planted them this spring.
They are fruiting nicely in my very hot CA central valley climate.
I really enjoyed my rosy finch tomatoes!! They were very tasty. Only had one plant in a 2 or 3 gallon pot. Very good flavor for me. But I agree, just a good snacking tomato. I had/have many other varieties from cherry to beefsteak to put with the finch for great salads and such. Orange hat micro dwarf was very tasty too.
I grew sun sugar instead of sun gold this year. Sooooooo good! But I love sun gold too 👍
Love your channel!!!
Robbie, you’re always a ray of sunshine 🌞🍅🌄🌻🌺!!! ❤ from Maryland
I grew 2 Rosy Finch tomato plants in my GreenStalk. The plants grew well but also behaved like a determinate. I won’t grow them again outside during the summer because, like you said, there are better varieties for that.
I do plan to try growing them indoors over the winter under LED shoplights. I figure if I do succession plantings/cuttings I can have fresh home grown tomatoes while it is cold and snowy.
I recently got some Rosy Finch seeds and some other micro dwarf varieties. I haven’t grown them yet, but my purpose was not to use them as a main tomato crop. I also recently got a Greenstalk planter and was thinking that the small size of the plant would be perfect in the Greenstalk. Also, my son got me an AeroGarden as a gift, so my plan was to grow micro dwarf tomatoes in the AeroGarden indoors during the winter. Even if they don’t taste that great, they’ll still be better than anything I can buy at the store. During the summer I’ll continue to grow and enjoy Sungolds and other indeterminate varieties as I always have.
lol I grew the Tom Thumb peas/ dwarfs. And it was the same. I was new to gardening. Now I know I can grow snap peas on sticks in the same size pot and have a huge harvest. Live and learn!!
It’s been really hot in Texas this year. The only tomatoes that produced well were the San Marzano.
I'm trying it! Buying a few seeds once I find them. I'm in canadian grow zone 2 with a short 50 day outside summer garden but I found indoor hydroponics work well for my family and I. Sungold is my favorite for outside! I grow in totes because of you and love the mini greenhouse tops. Thank you Robbie and Gary.
I’ve only grown Patio tomatoes and yellow pear tomatoes. Not much luck on either of them, but I think it was due to weather or poor sunlight conditions.
What types have you found to be a) sweetest and/or b) most prolific?
Thanks for the update!
No I won’t bother, what about a tiny tim?
Garden experiments can be fun.🙂 Sweet Kitty remembrance statue.💕
My tomato plants are full but not ripening fast enough for me. Lol
Not all micro dwarf tomatoes are determinate…i have a siam on my patio fruiting nonstop for 2 months… and i have some in my.aerogarden indoors too… some will come and keep coming some are determinates…
I have seed for Orange Hat and Micro Tom, but I’ve not been able to get plants from them, they fizzled out as seedlings. The only reason I want little plants like that would be for indoors during the winter when I can’t grow tomatoes outside. Otherwise, the micro tomatoes seem like a waste of garden space. Additionally, I tried Container’s Choice, Tasmanian Chocolate, and New Big Dwarf thinking they’d do well in five gallon buckets (because they’re supposed to be for containers), and they were my worst performers this year out of thirty varieties. Regular tomatoes did way better in the buckets!
I got a dwarf tomato plants from the farm store. The fruit was hard to cut open and eat. I care for that. I'm sticking to my cherry tomatoes variety. They have done great for me in 90f in shade.
Thanks for the update. So I'm crossing Rosy Finch from my list. I'm interested in micro dwarf tomatoes to grow indoors or at least well protected during winter. I'm in the South of France so even though it's the hotter region of the country, we still have a month or 2 in the year below 50°F. And with my Canadian little nephew visiting us in March, though it's too early in the season, I'd like for him to be able to pick tomatoes directly from the plant. This year, when he visited us, we bought cherry tomatoes several times a week just for him. It was amazing watching a 2 year-old vacuuming them in a blink of the eye.
I'll test growing outdoors the Sub Artic Plenty and Siberian varieties, reputed to be quite hardy. They aren't known to taste great, but decent enough and I'm hoping to be able to get fruits for March of next year, for my nephew to go on pillaging them. 😄
Thank you for the update.
I am glad you showed this tomato plant. I also planted Dwarf tomato plant which said I can grow indoors, which did not do very well. The other ones outside are behaving the same as yours. Perhaps, they were developed for those hydroponics systems. Sill love the bed you created in this video.
TOMATO = RED GOLD.
This year a volunteer tomato came up before spring and it gave me 10lbs of cherry tomatoes. All the ones I planted including my sun golds were a bust. The 30 days of 110+ this year here in Arizona.
I agree with you on these mini tomatoes. Lots of disease. I’m going to focus on cherry tomatoes & testing the new dwarf tomato project next year. The extreme heat is taking a toll on tomatoes. Trying to maintain them hoping they rebound in cooler weather. Loving the sunset torch cherry tomato – best I’ve ever grown.
Did I understand the cherry tomatoes you can just put the cherry tomato drop it in to the ground
hi what is your temperature there due mine are slow growing
Maybe that variety doesn't like roommates? Here in the midwest every variety I've grown with great success was alone, in ground or pot with plenty of light and airspace, not too wet (well draining), and in a hot and sunny spot. They produce into the fall, except the Romas; the plant died back after fruit production
On the rosy Finch tomato the ones I got had weird long string like plant that came out with seedlings Nope I WOULD NOT WASTE TIME again !
I would love to grow my sun golds in winter. Or any of my garden. Not ready for fall. Never heard of these tomatoes, not sure they're worth the effort. You can grow anything though, amazing. 😊