Well they turned out to be rather disappointing. They produced pretty good, but their size was really small. The biggest ones the Heirlooms only got to the size of tennis balls. Most were only the size of golf balls. The heirlooms have a great taste, but the standards never really got fully ripe it seems. I left them on the vine until they were about to fall off. But you slice them open and they were still green in the pulpy sections. The juice was an ugly yellow color and smelled funny. So we haven't been eating any of those. I think next year I will go back to the original way of growing them, but redesign my coon proof cage! But hey it was worth a try!
Most definately worth a try as it let us all know how tomatoes grown in this way turned out. Such a disappointment that they didn't do better though and weren't worth eating. I hope you come up with a coon proof cage that really works for the next planting.
Hi Capt, it seems that you are following up some of your previous post. As I am new to this forum, I do not know what you have tried in growing your tomato. Could you please show a link to your original topic? I tried one tomato (golden grape) in hanging basket. It grows upside down too and the result is also very disappointing.
I had found a web site that told of growing them upside down in 5 gal buckets of soil. Cut a hole about 1" in the bottom and bring the plant out through it. Then cover the roots with soil. The plants grew well, but the maters were smaller than normal. Production was close to being normal but small in size. On the heirloom plant I have had probably 50 or so tomatos. There were a few positives with the system. I was able to plant them earlier than normal as they were easier to cover on cool nights when frost was expected. Being hung under the eaves of the garage caused them to be well watered when it rained. When having dry weather, they were a bit easier to water manually as well. The coons weren't able to get to them which was the reason for the experiment to begin with. But none of the positives outweighed the negative of small maters.
