Super Sweet VF-100

The Super-Sweet VF-100 is a Verticillium and Fusarium resistant hybrid of the ever-popular Super-Sweet 100’s cherry tomato. I grew some store-started Super-Sweet 100’s last year and enjoyed them greatly. The plant was almost impossible to kill; it survived at least two whole-hearted attempts on it’s life by wildlife. It still produced several hundred of the sweetest vine-ripened tomatoes that I’ve ever tasted in the late fall growing season.

Update, 18Apr09: I found some ‘volunteer’ seedlings (scroll to bottom of link) from last year’s fruit that was dropped on the ground! They’re in the side yard that’s now used for bulbs, but where the tomatoes were last year. I’ll dig ‘em up and pot them.

See the main Tomatoes page for more about growing tomatoes in my area.

Sweet 100's first bloom

Sweet 100's first bloom

My Notes

  • 09 Planting: Indoors; First plant: 23Jan09; first sprout: 31Jan09. Plants have gotten leggy as of the first week in February.
  • Batch 2 as part of the Great Sprout Off planted 11Feb09. potted 26Feb09, in ground 6Mar09. Broke my organic promises and fertilized with a commercial tomato fertilizer because the stalks and leaves were looking red/purple, which could be a nutrient deficiency.
  • aaaaand they’re all dead.
  • (Although I frankly bought another Sweet 100 plant from the nursery, so who knows. We’ll see if I can kill it, too.)

Pictures

Sweet 100 Grown from Seed hanging in an Upside-Down Planter

Sweet 100 Grown from Seed hanging in an Upside-Down Planter

A "volunteer" plant from last year's seed drops.
Sweet 100s setting green fruit, 17May 09.

Sweet 100's setting green fruit, 17May 09.