Lime Green Salad dwarf tomato --- is anyone else growing it?
If so, let's share info.
Thanks, Tony
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6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoSeed started 1-30 --- planted in 5 gal bucket 3-27
In cooler days covered with clear plastic dome (in cold nights brought inside)
Picture on 5-27 (very bushy with dark green leaves). 8+ hrs of sunlight.
The following pics taken this morning (6-12-2017) at 6:20 am. Has one good sized tomato and many small ones. Lots and lots of blossoms (we'll see how many will fruit).
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Comments (8)I agree with Mulio. There are far far better examples of green when ripe tomatoes than the indeterminate and moderately productive Green Zebra (bland and a bit tart but has a weird metalic afterbite) or the dwarf determinate, moderately productive Lime Green Salad (better but small, juicy, some faint citrusy flavor, but becomes mushy fast). If you're looking for indeterminate, large to extra large Green When Ripe tomatoes, try Green Giant or Cherokee Green. Aunt Ruby's German Green is another good GWR indeterminate. I hear Spear's Tennessee Green is too. If you're looking for a good little dwarf green when ripe tomato, there soon will be several out there from Craig LeHoullier's dwarf project, especially the ones with Green Giant x Dwarf Gold Champion in their lineage....See MoreLime Green Salad
Comments (11)Bill, where do you get that kind of information? I was looking at Lime Green Salad earlier this year as an "oh what the heck" variety. In the end, I bought Malakhitovaya Shkatulka instead but I do not recall seeing that kind of specification for either one of them, certainly not from the suppliers. **** I'm not speaking for Bill, who will speak for himself, but many of us have grown Lime Green Salad and quite a few of us are SSE members and have access to the backgrounds and reports of those who list varieties in the Yearbook. And we've also seen online reports that others have made. I've been posting online about tomatoes since 1989 and have seen lots of feedback on varieties over the years, for instance. But personal experience is best. Here, for instance, is more info about Mala________ can't spell it without going backwards or looking it up. LOL Bred by Rissian Farm Svetlana in Siberia, offered by the Russian Co Siberskiy Sad, Novosibirsk, Siberia, name means Malachite Casket or Malachite Box, depending on individual translation, and a number of listers for this variety go on to decribe the plant habit, size/shape of fruits they get, and their impressions of taste and where they got their seed from and when. I'll be growing it this year as well and then and only then will I be able to describe it according to my experience with it. THere are varying opinions about Lime Green Salad as well, and I'd much rather grow a larger fruited Green When Ripe and didn't bond that well with LGSalad myself. LOL Suppliers have limited space to describe varieties and some of them know their toamtoes b'c they've grown them and some don't. So commercial blurbs are almost always hard to decipher, especially b'c they make everything sound so wonderful. The only seed Co owner I know of who was as up front as they come about varieties and told both the positives, and the negatives when they existed was Dr. Jeff McCormack when he owned SESE ( Southern Exposure Seed Exchange. Glenn Drowns also makes negative comments about some varieties, based on his experience with them, and he grows all he offers with just a few exceptions when some of his varieties don't make it in a particular year. Since many seed Co owners are or have been SSE members many of them get/got their starts from other SSE members, and those owners who don't grow ALL their own varieties for seed production often use parts of the SSE members blurbs in their catalogs/websites. I know b'c I've traced a few words from some of my SSE listings, as well as some from that book, and find them popping up here and there. Carolyn, and it's clear to me that Bill was giving you info from his own experience with Lime Green Salad, a variety bred by Tom Wagner. I love green when ripes and have grown maybe 15 different ones and to date Cherokee Green is my absolute fave. So I'll see how this one stacvks up against CG....See MoreAnyone Else Growing Crosses?
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6 years agoToday's high 100. Tomorrow back to normal at 85. We'll see the blossom survival rate then.
Tony
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6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoPicked the first ripe one today (6-23-2017) --- love it !
The size of a large egg, creamy flesh (but not mushy), some juice, and really good complex flavor. Hints of melon, citrus and a touch of sweetness with a tangy finish. 8+ taste rating.
If disease resistance and production stay the same --- will grow again!
Tony
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6 years agolast modified: 6 years ago
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ncrealestateguy
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6 years agoNC --- 7-24-2017 update:
Still very healthy with lots of blossoms. Yesterday picked 5 tomatoes (largest was at 6+oz), today 5 more (one was the biggest so far at 7.11 oz).
Average is about 3.5 oz. So far, over 45 fruits harvested, I expect a few more --- not bad for a total of about 10 lbs from a 2.5 feet tall plant.
It has become very juicy and the flavor is even better now. I'll rate its taste at 9.Tony
ncrealestateguy
6 years ago14tomatoes_md_7a
6 years agoToday (7-25-2017) picked a couple of ripe ones and a handful of green tomatoes. Then, decided I won't wait a few weeks for the dozens of blooms to fruit and then have the plant die, but cut it down to about one foot.
I've done it before (when the weather cooperated with a mild October) into tricking a determinate to successfully produce a second harvest.
Will keep updating.
Tony
14tomatoes_md_7a
6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoThe AMAZING little engine that could...!
After cutting Lime Green Salad dwarf tomato plant down to nearly bare bones five days ago (see above pic) --- here are today's pics (7-30-2017). Not only is it bursting with new healthy foliage, but it has set some blossoms already!
Tony
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6 years ago8-13-2017 update:
19 days after cutting down this WONDER --- it is super healthy and ready to give a 2nd crop! Two feet tall and growing, lots of blossoms and a couple of fruits already set --- AMAZING tomato dwarf plant !!!
Next year we'll grow 6 of them.
Tony
ncrealestateguy
6 years ago14tomatoes_md_7a
6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoHi NC,
Today's (8-22-2017) update:
Counted over 20 fruits set so far, from pea size to egg size -- setting a lot more fruit now, than before. Probably because it's mid-Summer, and thus setting faster than in the cooler Spring. Many dozens of blossoms that look ready to set lots more. Removed a couple of brown leaf branches --- no disease that I could see, just old age (planted 3-27, so it's been outside for nearly 150 days now).
Tony
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p.s. comparing the super healthy Lime Green Salad to the highly disease resistant Margo VFFT Hybrid behind it (which is dying from Septoria).
Margo --- big producer of nearly tasteless perfectly round red tomatoes --- I'll be pulling it out in a few days.
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