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To: Qiviut

Celebrity are determinate IIRC....I really have gone back to the good ol beefsteak tomatoes....celebrity and better boy (?) are good to get early tomatoes....also, I like the larger cherry tomatoes as well...


123 posted on 05/12/2020 9:57:10 PM PDT by cherry
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To: cherry

Mine get pretty huge & I get tomatoes until frost (often end up bringing in green tomatoes so they don’t freeze). I think “semi-determinate” is a good description:

Celebrities are almost entirely maintenance-free. No trimming, pruning, or grooming is necessary and the plants will grow up to five feet high (depending on your soil depth and conditions). They are often called semi-determinate, which means that the tomato plant and bush grows to a certain size and doesn’t get any bigger like a bush / determinate tomato plant. But it keeps giving you new tomatoes all the way until the first frost, like a vine / indeterminate tomato. That’s why they don’t need pruning.

Guide to Growing Celebrity Tomatoes
https://www.gardeningchannel.com/guide-to-growing-celebrity-tomatoes/


127 posted on 05/13/2020 4:05:01 AM PDT by Qiviut ("I have never wished death upon a man, but I have read many obituaries with pleasure" Mark Twain)
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