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Seed Collecting: Remove fleshy coating on seeds before storing Allow unblemished fruit to ripen; clean and dry seeds Unblemished fruit must be significantly overripe before harvesting seed; clean and dry seeds Ferment seeds before storing Properly cleaned, seed can be successfully stored
On Aug 30, 2010, tomatofrog from Echuca Australia wrote:
Mine was grown in a medium sized pot.It was not overly big,about 30 centimetre's. First dwarf I have grown. Fruit was translucent but rock like! Taste was ok.
On Aug 29, 2010, JULIETABER from Fort Worth, TX wrote:
I started a Tiny Tim from seed in May last year. The plant lived most of the way through the winter in a hanging basket and produced dozens and dozens of little tomatoes.
On Jul 19, 2010, Grow_Pittsburgh from Pittsburgh, PA wrote:
Incredible… This little 18 inch tall plant is a power house. The beautiful deep green leaves never turned yellow or showed any signs of wilt at all. I tried to let it go with out staking but the fruit was way too heavy. That is not knocking the strength of the plant either. The vines are very thick and able to handle its own weight during a very bad rainstorm. They didn’t even sag in the least, until the fruit started coming on. At this point I realized I need to stake them.
I’ll bet the fruit out ways the plant by 3 to 1. This little guy produces a nice round salad size cherry tomato. Not to big not to small. The fruit has a medium thickness skin, nice meaty flesh on the outer wall and a small pocket of seeds in the middle. The taste is more like a very mild full size tomato not a cherry.
If you have problems growing tomatoes this is the guy for you. From seed or transplant it is a very forgiving plant. I know they say it will grow in a 6”-8” pot but give this guy a bigger pot or plant him in the ground you will not be disappointed. Look at it this way would you rather where a pair of sweat pants or a pair of skin tight blue jeans.
Although the plant is supposed to grow to ten inches when grown in pots, my plants are topping 35 inches, and still growing. I have not had any ripe tomatoes as of yet so I can not comment on the taste of the fruit.
I have grown this tomato twice and it is not so small than this page indicates. I have had about 50-70cm tall plant. I have kept it in a pot with diameter of about 30cm, because it would be too big plant to a little pot. I like this tomato, although in the end of the summer the taste is not so good and the peel is thicker than in the beginning.
On Sep 12, 2006, MikeyJoe from Clarksville, IN wrote:
I grew two of these plants this year, one did quite well and the other was stunted and sickly. They were grown side by side in the same kind of pots on my patio. Neither produced very many Tomatoes but I have not given up on Tiny Tim just yet. I think I might try it as a houseplant and see how it does.
On Feb 15, 2004, Farmerdill from Augusta, GA (Zone 8a) wrote:
A 1945 introduction from the Department of Horticulture, University. of New Hampshire, Durham. This is a small container plant. It will mature in a 3 inch pot. While it will grow in a flowerbed in open soil, its best use is as a house plant. It is prolific for its size. Taste? Well I don't eat cherry tomatoes but folks to whom I have supplied plants haven't complained.
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