Greetings,I have a question hopefully someone with some experience can answer.One of my heirloom tomato plants I started from seed (only one of thisvariety...) somehow had the top broke off of it. There are 2 small branchesbelow the break, and they're developing suckers. The plant is the "Aussie"variety, and is currently about a foot tall or so. What's left below thebreak looks healthy.Is it worth giving this plant a chance? I have enough (15) tomato plantsthat I don't really need a huge harvest off of it. It, along with about adozen other heirloom varieties, I'm growing for the first time this year.I'd at least like to get a few tomatoes off of that plant to see how goodthey are.If anyone is interested in which varieties, and would like comment on theirexperience with them, they are:1884Aussie'BrandywineBrandywine RedCostoluto FiorentinoDrubzaGerman GiantGreen ZebraHungarian-Italian PastePantano RomanescoRose de BerneRussian RoseViolacium Krypni-RozoGlacierSweet MillionsThanks,Gary

Absolutely! By the end of summer, you likely won't even know it wasdamaged. Not pretty but absolutely delicious, both raw and cooked. It givesrelish, etc., a sweeter flavor than otherwise with many other tomatoesI love this one and have a great deal of fun with it when I give awaytomato baskets. People think it's green and needs to be let ripen. Theyare skeptical. LOLI grow a lot of heirlooms some of which can be seen on my 2002 web page(*very* outdated with the last entries made in August of 2002, lazywebmaster here ). Scroll all the way to the bottom for thumbnails oflarger images of signs for friends who sell tomato plants.Heirlooms are wonderful!Glenna

Damaged tomato plant survival/production?

May 14, 2004 25 Replies

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Dr. 22 years ago

Looks like I have nothing to worry about. The plant is looking great. Last year I lost 3 seedlings to a rabbit that squeezed under the fence. This year, I'm determined to have all survive.

Thanks, Gary

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Anonymous 22 years ago

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(clip) I planted Druzba this year, along with 3 other heirloom varieties. I was planting early, rushing the season and all got caught by a frost. Druzba has proven to be the least cold-hardy of the lot. Although several of the others were damaged by the frost, most of them have recovered. I lost exactly 1/2 of the Druzba.

Bill

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Rez 22 years ago

Same with most produce. Once you've had tree-ripened fruit, the stuff in the grocery is just -- inedible. Especially peaches!! I swear you could use the grocery peaches for baseballs.

~REZ~

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Dr. 22 years ago

Ouch. I'll make not of that.

Thanks, Gary

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Bill 22 years ago

I had good success with Mortgage Lifter last year. It's a huge, late-season, pink tomato that is so fleshy that ... well, here, take a look.

Surf to

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and then go to page five to see the cross-section. You'll see a couple of woody areas in this particular specimen but most of them had none at all.

It's a great slicer, a so-so juicer and I didn't try any other method of preserving them. Very prolific, excellent total weight per vine.

Bill

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Glenna Rose 22 years ago

I had planned to buy a Mortgage Lifter this year and manage to not do it. :-(

I went to your web page, but my browser shows only broken links. :-(

Glenna

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