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Which is indeterminate and which determinate?

pieheart
16 years ago

I just joined these forums, I've been reading them for a while, but I finally have a question that I haven't seen addressed:

I planted roma tomatoes (determinate) and jelly bean tomatoes (indeterminate) from seed. I carefully labeled them with plastic sticks marked with a sharpie. Unfortunately, the sun bleached the sharpie off and I can't tell which plants are which.

Is there some way to tell by looking at the plants which are which? By the leaves? The plants are about ten inches now, I'm ready to put them in the ground. I'm afraid that I'll need to wait a week or two for the plants to grow some more and the indeterminate one to put out suckers.

After reading these forums I have learned that most people do not like the jelly beans so I was going to compost most of them. I want to be sure I'm tossing the right plants! At this point, other than the fact that the leaves are slightly different, I don't notice any other differences.

Any advice about this?

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