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To: Red_Devil 232

Have grown Brandywine tomatoes in Alabama for about fifteen years. Usually get a good crop from first few weeks of fruit set, ready to pick in early July, then that’s the end of it. This variety does not set new fruit in mid-90s weather. But this year, due to an unusually mild July (mostly mid-80s to low-90s), I have vines full of new fruit set and tomatoes from dime size to couple of inches in diameter. June was fairly hot, so I have full size tomatoes ripening and those small ones and nothing in between.

First time in fifteen years to have this mid-summer, new fruit set.


23 posted on 07/31/2009 5:02:52 AM PDT by Will88
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I had Brandywine’s in my first garden and I was disappointed in them - production wise. My Marion and Ark. Travelers are still producing and setting fruit. They are a heat tolerant variety - I really like them.
24 posted on 07/31/2009 5:10:10 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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