Not sure if its any good in salsa but Tiny Tim (open pollenated) is a very small dwarf measuring just 12-18" tall totally covered with pretty tasty friut. That was grown in a 2 gallon pot. I have two TT's growing in the window sill but the growth is slow this time of year.

Another nice early, tidy OP is Uralskiy Rainny but its twice the size as TT. I was picking fruit in 110 days.

Hope thats a start for you.

hi halfway,
try silvery fir mine only got 16 inches tall and it gave me
fruit in 56 days from plant out,regards.

les

I am working on the same thing and am listening in. So far new big dwarf comes to mind. Right now I am trying sophie's choice. What I want is a red tomato that is at least as big as a tennis ball

Hi All

This season I am growing an assortment of dwarf tomatoes from Tatiana's website. They are all doing great in my porch and fruiting, I have not taste them yet. They are different sizes of plants, fruit and colors. Some of them are Budai Torpe, Shtambovy, Kootenai, Floragold Basket, Hahms Gelbe, Minibel, Orange Tree, Demidov.

Silvia

I'll second the recommendation for Tiny Tim, it's a heavy cropper and the plants are small enough to be very easy to care for.

Another good one for baskets is Tumbling Tomatoes

I grow these and sell the hanging baskets. I put two in each basket. Next year I am going to grow some in some sort of trough and hang them on the side of my high tunnel.

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I love the indoor tomato season, and always have several varieties growing on my sunporch and in front of my south Facing windows from October-May.

For salsa, I recommend Window Box romas. The plants are 18-24" high, very productive, and the fruits are firm enough to dice nicely. They also keep for a long time after they are harvested. I've grown them in two and three gallon pots.

Halms Gelbe, Micro-Gemma and Micro Tom are growing and fruiting in small ceramic pots on a window sill, but while they are great for producing a few cherries for a salad, you would have to have several plants of these in order to get enough ripe tomatoes at one time to make a decent amount of salsa.

Or, if you have room for hanging plants, you can fit two Ditmarsher, Basket King, or Tumblers in a ten inch pot. I've done it and had good results, but I'm a very attentive Tomato mama, and I'm willing to water and feed every other day or so.

This year I am also trialing Tiny Tim and the Tumbling Tom yellow mini, both of which are supposed to grow and fruit in a 6." I can't vouch for that yet, though.

jan

don't waste your time on tiny tim. They stay small like they're supposed to, but they taste nasty. Tough skins, tiny tiny tomatoes with no juice, flavor or meat inside. one of the worst flavored tomatoes I ever grew. The only thing is they did stay small like they were supposed to, and they were really pretty little plants. But what a disappointment!

Speaking of dwarf, sorry halfway I have no recommendations for indoor propagation...however, I am wondering if anyone has tried Golden Drawf Champion? First time trying this ones seeds from Gleckler this season.

~~~~~Waving at Sylvia~~ Hi dear!

Bursztyn is a really great compact tomato. It is about 3 feet tall (maybe a little over), and it has a nice flavor and is productive. I grew it indoors during the winter, and it was totally manageable with a small pot and smallish tomato cage.

Once you move into the larger (3') dwarfs, there are many good choices. Promyk stood out last year, for being early and flavorful. It stayed about 2' tall for me, but, Kid, its fruits would be smaller than what you want. I haven't growin it yet, but Patio F1 might work for you. It seems to be one of the hybrids that (to my way of thinking) has become a classic, like the Husky series, getting raves for taste and productivity. The maters are said to be in the 3-4 oz. range.

I've noticed that there seem to be as many different opinions of the taste of Tiny Tim, Red Robin and Micro Tom, etc. as there are growers. What I've I learned: A. taste is very subjective and B. taste is very growing condition dependent. The only way to know what works is to try it.

Red Robins are beautiful plants and productive. I grew them a couple of years ago and thought the taste seemed a bit "thin.". Knowing what I know now, if I wanted to improve their taste, I would not water them as often as I did that year. Some tomatoes need to be dryer than others in order to develop their full flavor. I also wouldn't be afraid to add a little molasses (or even table sugar) to one or two waterings, as the fruit starts to color. I have NO idea if that would help their flavor, but I know it wouldn't hurt. Organic Gardeners use molasses all the time.

For the person who is tight on space, you don't HAVE to have a big shop light set up to grow the micros and minis. A goose neck desk lamp or anything ith a CFL bulb will do fine. The key to keeping small plants small, though is in managing the lighting distance from the plant. Too far away and the plant will stretch for it.

j.

Hi Cindee, I missed you! you should stop by the Florida forum sometimes. I have not grown golden dwarf champion, let us know how you like it.

I planned that after my tomato season is over, I will still have some tomatoes in the porch, they all look very healthy, different sizes and colors. I got my first ripe Kootenai, together with a sungold to get the idea on the size.

Silvia