What Tomato Produces The Largest Fruit ?

[Nyboy]

I am thinking of planting a few tomatoes to use green and fry. What easy to find at nursery tomato produces exlarge tomatoes ? Not really interest in starting from seed but buying transplants

 

[seedcorn]

A heavy producer like Big Boys or Better Boys (my personnal favorite) should work for that. Not extraordinary large but do you really want a tomatoe that a slice fills the pot?

Plus the large ones tend to have a large core-not good eats.

 

[digitS']

Looking at Sunset and Better Homes and Gardens magazines online for "best" heirloom slicers shows several that may be in your garden centers. I wonder how yellow tomatoes would be green ..? I'll list those first:

• Golden Jubilee
• Goldie
• Earl of Edgecombe

I've grown Earl of Edgecombe. It's a fine tomato. Firm. You will be able to slice it easily even when fully ripe and it will really add something to a sandwich ~ besides juice. I just wish it was earlier for my garden. Red & Pink:

• Brandywine, on both lists
• Costoluto Genovese, on both lists
• Paul Robeson

I've only grown Bandywine OTV. It's the red Brandywine. Very, nice! Once again, a little late but it is supposed to be an earlier one from that group.

You would probably be happy with Better Boy. A friend grows those and they are productive and flavorful. I've grown Big Beef almost since they first hit the market. I've noticed that it's a popular hybrid even with people who primarily grow heirlooms.

Neither of these 2 are very big. They are bigger than 6oz, anyway and that is about average for what I believe is still the most popular hybrid - Early Girl. Nothing wrong with EG, imho. They are just on the small side.

The biggest tomatoes I ever grew were Orange Minsk or Neves Azorean. But ... I'd wait right through the growing season to get a couple of ripe tomatoes off each plant. Neves Azorean did a little better than that and I really liked the Orange Minsk but ...

Steve

 

[Nyboy]

Brandywine I see at all the nurserys

 

[seedcorn]

They are large but have a deep core. Check pix on internet

 

[journey11]

More nurseries are starting to carry a selection of heirlooms. Brandywine would be a good bet. Biggest tomatoes I've had along with high yield were Kelloggs Breakfast which you might find. Very biggest I've grown were Delicious and Persimmon, but those I'd doubt you'd see.

 

[Nyboy]

I think home depot carried Kelloggs breakfast last year

 

[so lucky]

Nyboy, in my experience, many of the heirlooms don't produce as well as the hybrids. Unless you have a good reason for choosing an open-pollinated tomato, I bet you will be happier with a well known hybrid such as Better Boy or Big Beef. Big Boy may be larger, but if I remember correctly, it doesn't have much disease resistance. Maybe that isn't as important where you live, but it really is, in my area. You could ask at the local garden center if disease is a problem with tomatoes, particularly early and late blight. If you have a "Mom & Pop" garden center or nursery, you can probably trust the info they give you on what to plant.

 

[Zeedman]

Garden centers are a crap shoot, since you never know what they will choose to carry. The big box stores & garden chain stores in my area tend to carry mostly hybrids, while smaller family-owned nurseries & greenhouses offer more heirlooms. Brandywine & Kellogg's Breakfast seem to be fairly common... for "extra large", I would go with the Kellogg's.

The largest tomato I've grown was Slankard's, which I grew again last year. Nearly all were over a pound, and quite a few two pounders. It is an heirloom, but the plants were so loaded, I had difficulty keeping the vines off the ground.

Just a thought... if you don't want to start your own seedlings, some of those Mom & Pop nurseries might be willing to grow them for you. That would really increase your options. I did that once about 10 years ago, before I built my current seed starting system. I gave them the seed; they sold half of the plants back to me, and sold the rest to their customers. Oh, and they were 1/2 mile away from my rural garden!

 

[Nyboy]

I am lazy I do like the idea of someone else starting seeds for me