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Winter cherry variety?

JXBrown (Sunset 24, N San Diego County)

14 years ago

I don't usually grow cherry tomatoes in my limited space, but I was thinking that I might get more tomatoes from a cherry variety in the winter. I used to get a few smallish slicers in the winter when I lived in San Diego, but up here in the frigid north (I.e. Orange County) they bloom, but they just don't set, even when it's warm in the winter. Does anybody in OC have a variety that produces over the winter?

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behlgarden
14 years ago
I grew large cherry variety that I planed in Apr 2011, to this day it keeps producing with no fertilizer, I am amazed on how long life these things have. And with current weather that is sort of spring like already, its blooming very hard again along with my 10 other heirloom tomato plants that I never pulled out. My thought was to use the tomato plants to support pea vines but both are thriving now.

Go with large cherry, I also heard that black cherry is the same way. Oh, I am in Corona area so that should work for you too.
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