Your room mate will be out of luck expecting large potatoes from a tomato plant
All tomatoes will grow well in AP
Have a look through here
http://rangeviewseeds.com.au/98-tomatoes
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| Author: | Tlrobb [ Feb 25th, '14, 05:11 ] |
| Post subject: | Reccomended Tomato Varieties |
What are the best varieties of tomatoes to grow in Aquaponics? Can anyone recommend indeterminate and determinate varieties that grow well in AP? My roommate prefers large meaty potatoes while I like colorful fruit with lots of flavor. |
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| Author: | mantis [ Feb 25th, '14, 06:11 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Reccomended Tomato Varieties |
Your room mate will be out of luck expecting large potatoes from a tomato plant All tomatoes will grow well in AP Have a look through here http://rangeviewseeds.com.au/98-tomatoes |
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| Author: | Tlrobb [ Feb 25th, '14, 06:36 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Reccomended Tomato Varieties |
Thats embarrassing, I obviously meant to type tomato. Although I have seen where people have grafted the two together. |
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| Author: | mantis [ Feb 25th, '14, 08:28 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Reccomended Tomato Varieties |
Oops you are in the US Try here then http://www.tomatofest.com/heirloom_toma ... store.html |
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| Author: | coachchris [ Feb 25th, '14, 09:04 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Reccomended Tomato Varieties |
Ryan Chatterson would be a good source for tom varieties. Amelias did very well as my first crop. Trying some Yellow Pear and Sweet Millions as well as some Giant Zebra and a few others. Should report back in a few months on these. |
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| Author: | Colum Black-Byron [ Feb 25th, '14, 10:07 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Reccomended Tomato Varieties |
I'll second Ryan's tomato variety knowledge. One of the ones I'm growing, from his collection is: http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/350878696853 ... 1439.l2649 Ponderosa Pink. I can't wait for it. I've also got Oxheart, Tommy toe, a few yellow pear varieties, romas, a baby roma (more of a cherry tomato), Mary Italian (I'd recommend that one), and legend is also fantastic. Ebay is your friend when it comes to selecting tomatoes. One I never had much luck in the ground is the Giant tree tomato, suppose to crop like mad, grow massive, and be very impressive. I haven't tried it in AP yet. |
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| Author: | mattyoga [ Feb 25th, '14, 10:38 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Reccomended Tomato Varieties |
mantis wrote: Your room mate will be out of luck expecting large potatoes from a tomato plant All tomatoes will grow well in AP Have a look through here http://rangeviewseeds.com.au/98-tomatoes Not so fast there mantis ! http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... le-UK.html 
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| Author: | mattyoga [ Feb 25th, '14, 11:01 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Reccomended Tomato Varieties |
back on topic, I like gross lisse in the AP, though for some reason so do the rats  Numerous cherry varieties do very well - didn't have much luck with romas in my system for some reason - seemed more susceptible to blossom end rot. (would get it while the cherrys and gross lisse didn't)
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| Author: | mantis [ Feb 25th, '14, 11:30 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Reccomended Tomato Varieties |
mattyoga wrote: mantis wrote: Your room mate will be out of luck expecting large potatoes from a tomato plant All tomatoes will grow well in AP Have a look through here http://rangeviewseeds.com.au/98-tomatoes Not so fast there mantis ! http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... le-UK.html Yeah I know of this process but its a tomato grafted onto a potato plant. So you get tomatoes from a potato plant
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| Author: | BenBrewcat [ Feb 25th, '14, 11:35 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Reccomended Tomato Varieties |
| [/quote] Yeah I know of this process but its a tomato grafted onto a potato plant. So you get tomatoes from a potato plant [/quote]Why not just buy hydroponic? They taste close enough
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| Author: | Stuart Chignell [ Feb 25th, '14, 12:10 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Reccomended Tomato Varieties |
mattyoga wrote: back on topic, I like gross lisse in the AP, though for some reason so do the rats Numerous cherry varieties do very well - didn't have much luck with romas in my system for some reason - seemed more susceptible to blossom end rot. (would get it while the cherrys and gross lisse didn't)There is your test plant 
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| Author: | mattyoga [ Feb 25th, '14, 13:10 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Reccomended Tomato Varieties |
Thought BER was more calcium than potassium though? |
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| Author: | Stuart Chignell [ Feb 25th, '14, 13:19 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Reccomended Tomato Varieties |
BER 
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| Author: | mattyoga [ Feb 25th, '14, 18:17 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Reccomended Tomato Varieties |
Sorry blossom end rot |
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| Author: | Charlie [ Feb 25th, '14, 18:51 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Reccomended Tomato Varieties |
Roma varieties are the pits for BER, havnt been able to grow a good one yet unfortunately. I love heirloom varieties mainly. Tigerella, tommie toe, principe borgese, green zebra, grosse lisse and yellow pear. There are numerous other fantastic varieties too. Below is a couple of mortgage lifters I grew a couple of years ago.. Attachment: mortgage lifter.jpg [ 57.01 KiB | Viewed 4210 times ] And some random others I listed above. Attachment: DSC_0102.JPG [ 164.53 KiB | Viewed 4024 times ] Attachment: DSC_0105.JPG [ 160.29 KiB | Viewed 4024 times ] Attachment: DSC_0109.JPG [ 131.11 KiB | Viewed 4024 times ] Attachment: DSC_0178.JPG [ 184.5 KiB | Viewed 4024 times ] Like mentioned though, all tommies grow well in AP. |
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